By Steve North , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — We were sharing a pastrami sandwich and pickles at the Los Angeles landmark Canter’s Deli. I was 24. She was nearly 50 years older, with a piercing voice as loud as her flaming red wig. Her name was EvaContinue Reading
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By , JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA)—Israel’s proposal that Iran totally dismantle its nuclear capacity in exchange for sanctions relief would likely lead to war, a top White House official said. The official, in a conference call Wednesday with think tanks and advocacy groups sympathetic to the Obama administration’sContinue Reading
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By Rebecca Spence, JTA World News Service ASHLAND, Ore. (JTA)—It’s a crisp fall day in southern Oregon and Josh Shupack, 32, is gently whispering in a chicken’s ear. “We’re going to return your soul to heaven, your blood to the earth,” he says, petting the bird’s bright red comb. “And nourishContinue Reading
By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line [Tira, Israel] — The gel in his hair, the designer jeans and ironed button down shirt make Aziz Kaden look like any of the thousands of high-tech workers in Israel. But until recently, he was the only Arab at E4D Mobile in the town ofContinue Reading
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By , JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA)—At least 12 babies, most premature, have been delivered in Israel’s field hospital in the Philippines—including one named Israel. The hospital is seeing about 300 patients a day, many injured in last week’s Typhoon Haiyan or unable to care for chronic conditions dueContinue Reading
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By Marcy Oster, JTA World News Service (JTA)—Obviously wanting to get back to work as the medical manager of the field hospital set up by the Israel Defense Forces in the Philippines, Lt.-Col. Dr. Ofer Merin speaks hurriedly about the three days his team has been seeing patients in the typhoon-ravagedContinue Reading
By Alex Traiman , JNS.org Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Palestinian negotiators have resigned over the lack of progress in Israeli-Palestinian conflict talks. Abbas said in an interview on Egypt’s CBC television that his negotiators were upset over continued plans for Jewish construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem.Continue Reading
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By , JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA)—Representatives of the Israeli military landed in the Philippines to evaluate the situation on the ground and determine how Israel can best assist in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan. The team, including search and rescue experts, doctors and representatives of the Home FrontContinue Reading
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By Ron Kampeas and Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA)—When reports emerged over the weekend that France’s hard line was responsible for the failure of negotiations over Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program, supporters and critics of the diplomatic push resorted to familiar stereotypes. Conservatives scoffed that even the conflict-averseContinue Reading
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By , JTNews Correspondent WASHINGTON (JTA)—The lesson of Kristallnacht is to speak out “against anti-Semitism and intolerance,” President Obama said in marking the 75th anniversary of the pogrom that presaged the Holocaust. “Kristallnacht foreshadowed the systematic slaughter of six million Jews and millions of other innocent victims,” Obama said inContinue Reading
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