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Website: ‘Blood of Christians’
JTAApr 11, 2013
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
Ron Kampeas, JTAApr 11, 2013
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
Ben Sales, JTAApr 04, 2013
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
JTAApr 04, 2013
ROME Pope Francis and Romes Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni exchanged greetings to mark Passover and Easter. The two holidays overlapped this year: Easter was last...
Chabad library to move to Moscow’s Jewish musuem
JTAApr 04, 2013
MOSCOW — Russia plans to move Jewish texts claimed by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement to Moscows newly opened Jewish museum later this month. Russian Deputy Culture...
Twitter sued for $50 million
JTAMar 31, 2013
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
JTAMar 29, 2013
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
Gavin Rabinowitz, JTAMar 29, 2013
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
Ron Kampeas, JTAMar 29, 2013
WASHINGTON For a trip that US officials had cautioned was not about getting deliverables, President Obamas apparent success during his Middle East trip at...