International
Two Polish women honored posthumously by Yad Vashem
TPSOct 27, 2022
Two Polish women, Renata Rostworowska and her aunt Kristina Wojewódzka, were posthumously named “Righteous Among the Nations” by Yad Vashem, Israel’s national...
Kosher, halal, defended at EU
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAOct 27, 2022
European Union officials in Brussels invited Jewish and Muslim community leaders to discuss meat production, in what some of the guests characterized as progress toward...
Adidas boots Kanye
JTAOct 27, 2022
The athletic wear company Adidas is ending its relationship with Kanye West, days after the rapper boasted that he could “literally say anti-Semitic [expletive...
Israel, Lebanon sign maritime agreement
JNSOct 13, 2022
Israel’s Security Cabinet voted on Wednesday, Oct. 12, in favor of a maritime and gas agreement with Lebanon that was mediated by the US.
Anti-Semitism creeps back into Russian media
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAOct 06, 2022
As Russia’s war effort in Ukraine founders, openly anti-Jewish rhetoric is entering the country’s mainstream media, with a popular talk show host naming Jews on air...
Is Meloni too right for Italian Jews?
JTAOct 06, 2022
The success of Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party in Italy’s national election last month means the country is poised to have its most right-wing government...
Uman pilgrims face obstacles getting to, being in Ukraine
JTASep 29, 2022
As he jogged up a hill in Uman, Ukraine, a chasidic man in a black knee-length coat flicked through a pocket prayer book. He was heading towards the one-story complex...
Chabad speaks up gingerly on the war
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTASep 15, 2022
For the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine six months ago, dozens of Russian rabbis from that country convened for an emergency meeting that ended with a...
For him, Bergen-Belsen was life
JTASep 15, 2022
One might not associate the term “concentration camp” with life. But that is exactly how Menachem Rosensaft views Bergen-Belsen.
The Queen and the Jews
Ron Kampeas, JTASep 15, 2022
The reign of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-serving monarch who died Sept. 8 at 96, encompassed the grief and the redemption of 20th century British Jewry, as...
