Monday, March 15, 2010
Indian synagogue guarded after fake terror alert
JTA
Indian security took up positions around an ancient synagogue in Kochi following a terror alert that turned out to be a hoax.
The Paradesi Synagogue . . .
Monday, March 15, 2010
Germany challenging request to open Eichmann files
JTA
Germany is challenging a journalist's request to declassify files pertaining to the 15 years Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann spent as a . . .
Monday, March 15, 2010
U.S.-Israel crisis: This time, it’s serious
By Ron Kampeas, JTA
Last summer, when the relationship between the Obama and Netanyahu administrations was getting off to what appeared to be a rocky start, Israeli . . .
Friday, March 12, 2010
European Parliament calls for Shalit release
JTA
The European Parliament called for the immediate release of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
The resolution passed the European Union body . . .
Friday, March 12, 2010
Jill Biden tours joint U.S.-NIF project
JTA
Jill Biden, wife of the U.S. vice president, toured and praised a New Israel Fund-backed program that the philanthropy says would be endangered by a . . .
Friday, March 12, 2010
Jewish groups upset with Presbyterians
JTA
Jewish groups are upset with recent actions by the Presbyterian church regarding its Israel policies.
A report released by the Presbyterian Church . . .
Friday, March 12, 2010
Jewish Iranian family busted for drug smuggling
JTA
An Iranian Jewish family was arrested at Ben-Gurion Airport after trying to smuggle more than 30 pounds of opium into Israel.
Israeli police seized . . .
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Court: Swedish man can be deported to Poland
JTA
A Swedish court ruled that the man accused of organizing the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei” sign from the front gate of Auschwitz can be . . .
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Hamas frees British journalist held in Gaza
JTA
A British journalist held in Gaza for nearly a month was released.
Paul Martin, a freelance journalist and filmmaker, was turned over to British . . .
Thursday, March 11, 2010
PA cancels ceremony honoring hijacker
JTA
The Palestinian Authority canceled a ceremony to honor a woman who led the 1978 hijacking of a bus in which 35 Israelis were killed.
A traffic . . .
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Jewish Lobby Sits Out Vote On Armenian Genocide
Nathan Guttman, FORWARD.COM
Deteriorating relations between Turkey and Israel led Jewish groups to step back from active lobbying this year against a congressional resolution . . .
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Germany boosts funding to Holocaust survivors
JTA
Germany will nearly double its funding for home health care to aging Holocaust survivors.
Annual negotiations between the Claims Conference and the . . .
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Former Agriprocessors workers to be deported
JTA
Ten illegal aliens who worked at the former Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse will be deported by the end of the month.
The workers, from Mexico, . . .
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Three Auschwitz sign thieves confess
JTA
Three of the men who allegedly cut up and stole the “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign from the front gate of Auschwitz have confessed to the crime.
The . . .
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
U.N. sappers to destroy Gaza war bombs
JTA
A United Nations sapper unit will enter the Gaza Strip to dispose of unexploded ordnance from the Gaza war.
The Israeli army has authorized the U.N. . . .
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Tamás Raj, Hungary’s former chief rabbi, dies
JTA
Tamas Raj, a charismatic retired chief rabbi and one of Hungary's top intellectuals, has died.
Raj, who worked to reduce the persistent . . .
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Communications activist silenced in Cuban jail cell
By Ron Kampeas, JTA
Alan Gross has been about communications all his life: The call-mom-everyday son, the family newsbreaker, the message guy for Jewish groups, the . . .
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Chile’s Jews providing comfort
By Shimon Vinger, JTA
I left Santiago, Chile, with my wife and four children exactly two months before the massive earthquake hit on Feb. 27. My wife and I had founded . . .
Thursday, March 4, 2010
German performer insults Jewish community
JTA
A German cabaret artist has raised the hackles of Jewish leaders with a routine comparing welfare recipients to concentration camp . . .
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Caricature causing a stir in Cologne
JTA
Critics of a caricature in Cologne showing a Jew preparing to eat a Palestinian child, with a glass of blood to wash it down, are pressing for . . .
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Masorti Olami movement: Synagogue in Concepcion destroyed in Earthquake
JTA
According to the Masorti Olami, the Masorti synagogue in Concepcion was destroyed in the earthquake that rocked Chile this . . .
Monday, March 1, 2010
Jewish community mulling response to Chile quake [UPDATE]
By Jacob Berkman, JTA
As U.S. Jewish organizations ponder how to respond to the massive quake that rocked Chile, they report that the infrastructure of the country's . . .
Monday, March 1, 2010
Holocaust denier Zundel leaves prison
JTA
Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel was released from a German prison after serving a five-year . . .
Monday, March 1, 2010
Spanish students send anti-Semitic cards to Israel Embassy
JTA
Israel's embassy in Madrid has received dozens of postcards from Spanish schoolchildren containing anti-Semitic . . .
