International
Sigd . . . 12 new shochets
TPSDec 01, 2022
Israel’s Ethiopian community celebrated the Sigd festival on Wednesday, Nov. 23. The holiday was originally celebrated in Ethiopia to express the community’s...
Living link to Ladino lost
David I. KleinDec 01, 2022
Moris Albahari, a Holocaust survivor, former partisan fighter and one of the last Ladino speakers in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s dwindling Jewish community, passed away...
75th anniversary of UN resolution
TPSNov 30, 2022
Tuesday, November 29, marked the 75th anniversary of the United Nations’ vote to create a Jewish state. It was the first time the international community threw its...
Thousands gather for Chabad ‘kinus’
JTANov 24, 2022
It was unseasonably cold on Sunday morning, Nov. 20, when thousands of rabbis, including from Colorado, New Mexico and elsewhere in the Mountain West, crowded on risers...
Bitter words in Munich
JTANov 24, 2022
It was not your average accusation of anti-Semitism, with the invective flowing only in one direction over social media or television. It was a heated and very personal...
In Ukraine, a dark winter looms
JTANov 17, 2022
As temperatures fall and Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power grid ramp up, Jewish groups are directing their efforts toward making sure that Ukrainian Jews can remain...
Shifting approach to looted art
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTANov 10, 2022
A Dutch committee charged with assessing and acting on claims about artwork stolen from Jews before and during the Holocaust has determined that a painting by Wassily...
BBC called out for editorial failings
Gabe Friedman, JTANov 10, 2022
A BBC article about an attack on a bus full of Jewish students celebrating Chanukah last year contained “significant editorial failings,” according to a report...
Taliban will conserve Yu Aw shul in Herat
JTANov 03, 2022
Though the Jews of Herat in western Afghanistan haven’t lived there in decades, the city’s historic synagogue, thought to have been built around the turn of the 20th...
Brazil’s Jews divided on Lula’s win
JTANov 03, 2022
In 2009, da Silva warmly welcomed former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a notorious Holocaust denier whose regime persecuted minorities and critics, for a visit...
