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Hacked in Boulder: Easy does it

Last weekend’s hacking of three websites of Boulder synagogues and a rabbinic group was not only not unusual, it was likely to happen sooner or later, according to Carl...

Rosenthal attacks Ambassador Oren

WASHINGTON — Critics have a simple message for Israel’s top diplomat and the Obama administration’s envoy on anti-Semitism: Reread your job descriptions. Every...

Palestinians kill Israeli rabbi

By Yaakov Katz, JPost JERUSALEM —— After months of quiet in the West Bank, a father of seven was killed in a drive-by shooting attack near the northern Samaria...

Carter wants forgiveness

WASHINGTON  — Jimmy Carter is asking the Jewish community for forgiveness — and insists it’s not simply because his grandson has decided to launch a political career...

At the White House, even a Chanukah party is full of politics

WASHINGTON — The incumbent president called it a “holiday,” until he called it “Chanukah,” and a few Jews wondered if their fellows weren’t being oversensitive...

EU tones down demand on Jerusalem

JERUSALEM —The new European Union document on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is being interpreted in Jerusalem as a warning to the Israelis: Do more to restart...

Danish Jewry dwindles; future dim

COPENHAGEN — Forty years ago, when a few thousand Polish Jewish refugees arrived in Denmark fleeing an anti-Semitic campaign orchestrated by Poland’s Communist...

Loup JCC to host Maccabi Games

THE Loup JCC is recruiting participants, fans and supporters in anticipation of the JCC Maccabi Games — an annual athletic phenomenon on such a grand scale that it will...

In Moldova, Christians tear down menorah

BUDAPEST (JTA) — Some 200 fundamentalist Orthodox Christians in Moldova took down a public Chanukah menorah and planted a wooden cross in its place. News footage showed...

Classical Reform takes a stand

SAN FRANCISCO  — Seventy-year-old Harold Eichenbaum doesn’t think much of kashrut. He grew up in Texas, Reform like his parents and grandparents, and was confirmed at...