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Guiliani protests ‘Death of Klinghoffer’
JTAOct 23, 2014
NEW YORK (JTA) — Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani will be among several New York politicians who are expected to protest at the premiere of “The Death of Klinghoffer” at...
Converts say Freundel went well beyond peeping
Uriel Heilman, JTAOct 23, 2014
NEW YORK When Rabbi Barry Freundel asked Bethany Mandel to take a really long shower before a practice dunk in the mikveh prior to her formal conversion to...
Rose ‘ready for Ebola’
Andrea JacobsOct 23, 2014
DENVERS Rose Medical Center started implementing Ebola protocols before John Eric Duncan presented symptoms of the hemorrhagic disease last month in Dallas. But like...
AP’s veteran Gaza reporter flees to Malaysia
Ron Kampeas, JTAOct 19, 2014
WASHINGTON Ibrahim Barzak spent his childhood counting the days to weekends, when he would travel with his father to see friends in Tel Aviv, Herzliya, Ashdod and...
El Al may be violating US law
JTAOct 12, 2014
NEW YORK A New York rabbi-attorney claimed that some El Al Airlines policies may violate US law in the wake of delays on flights because haredi Orthodox men refused...
Ebola in US no surprise to local expert
Andrea JacobsOct 12, 2014
AMERICANS followed the Ebola epidemic in West Africa from a safe distance until Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan landed in the US on Sept. 20 and developed symptoms...
Pointing fingers at the United Nations
Uriel Heilman, JTAOct 02, 2014
NEW YORK In the end, there was much to talk about at the UN General Assembly but few genuine surprises. With an eye on the jihadist group ISIS, President […]
Firebomb thrown at Kiev’s oldest synagogue
JTAOct 02, 2014
KIEV Kievs oldest synagogue was the target of a firebomb that burst into flames outside the building last week. The firebombing at the Great Choral Synagogue on...
New Zealand: John Key wins
JTASep 29, 2014
SYDNEY John Key, the son of a Jewish refugee from Europe, won his third term as New Zealand prime minister. Key, whose mother Ruth Lazar escaped Europe on the...
ISIS? ‘Nuclear Iran 1,000 times worse’
Ron Kampeas, JTASep 28, 2014
WASHINGTON — Saying a nuclear Iran would be a thousand times greater threat to the world than ISIS, Israels ambassador to the US warned against including Iran...
