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Hacked in Boulder: Easy does it
Stacy FarbJan 07, 2010
Last weekends 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
Ron Kampeas, JTADec 31, 2009
WASHINGTON Critics have a simple message for Israels top diplomat and the Obama administrations envoy on anti-Semitism: Reread your job descriptions. Every...
Palestinians kill Israeli rabbi
Jerusalem PostDec 31, 2009
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
Ron Kampeas, JTADec 31, 2009
WASHINGTON Jimmy Carter is asking the Jewish community for forgiveness and insists its not simply because his grandson has decided to launch a political career...
At the White House, even a Chanukah party is full of politics
Ron Kampeas, JTADec 24, 2009
WASHINGTON The incumbent president called it a holiday, until he called it Chanukah, and a few Jews wondered if their fellows werent being oversensitive...
EU tones down demand on Jerusalem
Leslie Susser, JTADec 18, 2009
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
Ben Harris, JTADec 18, 2009
COPENHAGEN Forty years ago, when a few thousand Polish Jewish refugees arrived in Denmark fleeing an anti-Semitic campaign orchestrated by Polands Communist...
In Moldova, Christians tear down menorah
JTADec 18, 2009
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
Sue Fishkoff, JTADec 10, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO Seventy-year-old Harold Eichenbaum doesnt think much of kashrut. He grew up in Texas, Reform like his parents and grandparents, and was confirmed at...