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Website: ‘Blood of Christians’

JERUSALEM — A Palestinian nonprofit organization removed an article from its website that accused Jews of using “the blood of Christians in the Jewish Passover” and...

Thatcher remembered for her affection for Britain’s Jews

WASHINGTON — History will remember former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for relentlessly facing down communism and helping to turn back more than three...

Ethiopian Israelis take big strides

TEL AVIV — When Yityish Aynaw immigrated from Ethiopia to Israel at age 12, she was thrust into an Israeli classroom. An orphan lacking Hebrew skills, Aynaw says she...

Pope and chief rabbi exchange greetings

ROME — Pope Francis and Rome’s Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni exchanged greetings to mark Passover and Easter. The two holidays overlapped this year: Easter was last...

Obama quotes ‘Hatikvah’ in Passover message

WASHINGTON — President Obama in his Passover message cited the Israeli national anthem’s invocation of an ancient Jewish longing for a homeland. “Last week, I visited...

Vladimir Putin (Sebastian Derungs/CC)

Chabad library to move to Moscow’s Jewish musuem

MOSCOW —— Russia plans to move Jewish texts claimed by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement to Moscow’s newly opened Jewish museum later this month. Russian Deputy Culture...

Twitter sued for $50 million

PARIS — The Union of Jewish French Students sued Twitter for about $50 million for failing to honor a court ruling to identify users who posted anti-Semitic hate...

Jewish doctor detained in Abu Dhabi cleared

CAPE TOWN — An Abu Dhabi judge dismissed charges against Cyril Karabus, a Jewish doctor who had been detained in the United Arab Emirates in connection with a...

First Greek premier to visit a synagogue in 101 years

THESSALONIKI, Greece — Antonis Samaras stood in the pale morning light coming through the stained glass windows of the only Thessaloniki synagogue to survive WW II and...

In Israel Obama, worried about Syria, delivers Turkey

WASHINGTON — For a trip that US officials had cautioned was not about getting “deliverables,” President Obama’s apparent success during his Middle East trip at...