By Tori Gottlieb, Jewish Sound Correspondent Seventy years after the end of World War II, Holocaust survivor Dr. Edith Eger is still motivated by the fear and determination that shaped her experience in Europe’s concentration camps. It was during her time in Auschwitz that Eger discovered her inner strength, and beganContinue Reading
(JTA) — An upcoming Republican National Committee trip to Israel is being fully funded by a hate group, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, an American civil rights organization. The trip, which will take 60 RNC members to Israel for nine days beginning Saturday, is being paid for byContinue Reading
NEW YORK (JTA) — Israeli President Reuven Rivlin defended Islam in a U.N. address and said that “neither the West, nor the Christians nor the Jews are at war with Islam.” Rivlin made his remarks Wednesday at a General Assembly ceremony for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was the dayContinue Reading
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Two Israeli soldiers were killed and seven were wounded when a Hezbollah anti-tank missile struck an Israeli patrol on the Israel-Lebanon border. Wednesday’s attack by the Lebanese terrorist group included shelling of Israeli army positions in Israel’s North, according to Israeli reports. In response, the IsraelContinue Reading
By Maya Pogrebinsky, Special to the Jewish Sound When was the last time you paid a visit to a resident of an assisted-living center? When was your most recent encounter with an elderly member of the community who wasn’t a relative? A group of about 15 students from Northwest YeshivaContinue Reading
By Hillel Kuttler, JTA World News Service (JTA) – “Deflategate,” the controversy surrounding the New England Patriots that has made national news, made its way to a Houston business conference led by a rabbi. Rabbi Yossi Grossman, dean of the Jewish Ethics Institute, on Monday transformed the football prattle intoContinue Reading
PRAGUE (JTA) — The presidential palace in Bulgaria’s capital will remain lit throughout the night of International Holocaust Memorial Day to encourage actions against anti-Semitism. The symbolic act at the Sofia residence was announced Tuesday by Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev at a meeting organized by the European Jewish Congress inContinue Reading
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said she supports a bill to dissolve the country’s main intelligence agency, which she accused of conspiring against her government. In a televised address on Monday, her first since the body of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman was foundContinue Reading
By Toby Axelrod, JTA World New Service KRAKOW, Poland (JTA) — What kept you alive? Did your non-Jewish friends reject you? Could you ever forgive? Those were some of the questions posed by Jewish young adults to Holocaust survivor Marcel Tuchman on Monday at the Galicia Jewish Museum here. “WhatContinue Reading
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The deaths of two Bedouin citizens involving Israel Police sparked riots in Arab-Israeli towns in southern Israel. Sami al-Jaar, 20, was killed during a police drug raid in Rahat in the Negev Desert on Jan. 15. At al-Jaar’s funeral three days later, Sami Zayadna, 45, died amidContinue Reading
(JTA) — Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, speaking in New York to the African-American community, compared the establishment of Israel to the civil rights movement. Making his first visit to the United States as Israeli president, Rivlin in his address Sunday at the Christian Cultural Center also recalled the friendship ofContinue Reading
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The vast majority of Palestinian respondents to a survey believe Israel may have played a role in the terror attacks in France this month. Conducted by the Palestinian Maan News Agency, the poll found that 84 percent of Palestinians said the attacks on the Charlie HebdoContinue Reading
By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service TEL AVIV (JTA) — Stav Shaffir was angry. The 29-year-old firebrand is known for her outbursts, which have gotten her kicked out of multiple Knesset hearings in the past year. But when she rose in the Knesset on Jan. 21 to answer JewishContinue Reading
By Leah Falk, Jewniverse via JTA Looking for some relative peace and quiet in the Middle East? Look no farther than Akhzivland, a micronation on Israel’s northern coast, near Nahariya. Officially a mere 10,000 square meters, this tiny independent state is presided over by Eli Avivi, an Iranian expat who settled there in 1952. (After theContinue Reading
TEL AVIV (JTA) — At least 12 people were wounded, some seriously, when a Palestinian man stabbed passengers and the driver on a Tel Aviv bus. Four victims, including the driver, remained in serious condition following the Wednesday morning attack on the No. 40 bus. Initial reports said 12 toContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound See the winners of our Best of Everything survey here! Every year in our Best of Everything survey, we ask who your local heroes are. We’ve got a lot of heroes in this town, so we decided to give you the reasons behind aContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound Admit it. You all have fun speaking out on the things you love in our community, whether they’re Jewish or not. That’s why we had more responses this year than in the decade we’ve been doing this. Right? We are pleased to announce theContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound Four years into his job as Greenstein Family Executive Director of Hillel at the University of Washington, Rabbi Oren Hayon announced his resignation last week. Hayon, a Reform-ordained rabbi who spent many years in Texas before moving to Seattle, will be returning toContinue Reading
By Kenneth Jacobson, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — The latest strategy being used by those who make a career of assaulting the good name of the State of Israel is to link the issue of full equality for African-Americans, as symbolized by the word “Ferguson,” with theContinue Reading
By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service PETACH TIKVAH, Israel (JTA) — Outside the Moriah Synagogue in this central Israeli city, boys in ritual fringes and girls in long skirts handed out fliers for the dozens of candidates running in the Jan. 14 primary for the Jewish Home party, aContinue Reading
