Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Russia’s Putin torpedoes G8 efforts to oust Assad

by Andrew Osborn and Maria Golovnina, Reuters

Russia's Vladimir Putin derailed Barack Obama's efforts to win backing for the downfall of Syrian leader Bashar Assad at a G8 summit on Tuesday,. . .

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Happy 90th, Shimon Peres!

by Joe Winkley, JTA

Dignitaries from around the world gathered in Jerusalem today to celebrate the 90th birthday of Israeli President Shimon Peres. Bill Clinton, Sharon. . .

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Hezbollah takes Syrian center-stage, yet remains in shadows

by Dominic Evans, Reuters

The voice crackling over the Hezbollah radios was clear and authoritative, and the guerrillas poised to attack the Syrian border town of Qusair. . .

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

As protests rock Turkey, Israel watches with ambivalence

by Ben Sales, JTA

As the budding protest movement in Turkey against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan struggles to gain a foothold, Israel is watching the. . .

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Israel’s austerity budget advances in Knesset

JTA

Israel’s Knesset approved the first reading of the 2013-14 state budget, which has been touted as closing socio-economic gaps in the country.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Engraver etches wrong birth year on Ed Koch tombstone

JTA

A tombstone engraver made Ed Koch nearly two decades younger after carving the wrong birth year into the New York City mayor’s granite slab.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Iran’s president-elect Rohani: More of the same or a bridge to the West?

by Ron Kampeas, JTA

Former national security adviser, former nuclear negotiator, a decades-old friendship with the supreme leader — Hassan Rohani is as Iranian. . .

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

In Israel, Sharon Stone meets her biggest fan, visits Hadassah Hospital

by Jana Banin, JTA

It’s unclear whether this guy is a fan of Sharon Stone or a fan of campy t-shirts. Either way, he had what was surely a surreal moment yesterday. . .

Monday, June 17, 2013

Iran’s new president still Khamenei-approved, Netanyahu says

JTA

The election of cleric Hassan Rohani as president of Iran does not change anything, since he was shortlisted by the country’s radical Supreme. . .

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Survivor: Lidia Budgor

By Jane Ulman

The cattle car pulled up to the Auschwitz platform. As the doors opened, German soldiers with guns and barking dogs began pushing out the more than. . .

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Moving and Shaking

By Ryan Torok

Temple Beth Am honored the Ziering family for its generosity to the Los Angeles Jewish community, Israel, the arts and numerous philanthropic. . .

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Gezi Park rebuilds, digs in for more clashes

by Steve Dorsey, The Media Line

By nightfall the Gezi Park protesters had cleaned up the trampled tents and trash left behind from crowds fleeing police during clashes in adjacent. . .

Thursday, June 13, 2013

At Auschwitz, Israel’s Netanyahu says Jews still threatened

by Wojciech Zurawski, Reuters

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visiting the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz on Thursday, said the Jewish state would act -- alone if. . .

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Lights out (and sirens off) for Hatzolah?

By Jonah Lowenfeld

In March 2011, Hatzolah of Los Angeles, the Orthodox Jewish volunteer emergency response corps, celebrated its 10th anniversary in this city.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Jewish roots of the ‘Man of Steel’

by Michael Aushenker

Seventy-five years after bursting into the world of comic books, something still feels Jewish about Superman.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Dying in vain in Santa Monica and Sandy Hook

By Jonah Lowenfeld

This coming Friday, it will have been six months since a shooter armed with an assault rifle killed 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook. . .

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

The Middle East: Where upheaval reigns

By Shmuel Rosner

In December 1973, shortly after the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War, Israel’s director of central intelligence submitted a report about the performance. . .

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

675 housing units approved for West Bank’s Itamar settlement

JTA

Some 675 new housing units were approved for the West Bank settlement of Itamar.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

In Syria, peaceful demonstrators frustrated

themedialine.org

Khalid Walid spends most of his days drinking coffee and smoking French cigarettes on a dusty Aleppo street corner. With the war shutting down the. . .

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Iran election offers choice, but little change

by Marcus George, Reuters

Friday's presidential election in Iran is unlikely to bring significant change to the Islamic republic, whose supreme leader has ensured hardline. . .

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

A questionable woman in the synagogue?

by Dora Levy Mossanen

Ah! How authors wax poetic about the allure of a vulnerable woman! How tempting it is for that mensch in shining armor to whisk that vulnerable. . .

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Defense chiefs Hagel and Yaalon to meet in D.C.

JTA

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and his Israeli counterpart, Moshe Yaalon, will meet this week.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Turkish police battle protesters in Istanbul square

by Nick Tattersall and Ayla Jean Yackley, Reuters

Turkish riot police using tear gas and water cannon battled protesters for control of Istanbul's Taksim Square on Tuesday night, hours after Prime. . .

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

David Stav: the Naftali Bennett of the chief rabbi race?

by Ben Sales, JTA

David Stav, the chief rabbi candidate, had to walk a fine line when he addressed a crowd of Tel Aviv immigrants in English on Sunday.