By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service TEL AVIV (JTA)—When Magda Haroun was out on the streets during the unrest now rocking Egypt’s capital, she saw someone standing over the body of a dead soldier. “Not even a Jew would do this,” she heard him say. Haroun, the president of theContinue Reading
By Ben Sales, JTA World News ServiceContinue Reading
By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service TEL AVIV (JTA)—Hanging by his feet in a torture cell in the Sinai Desert, Dawit Demoz knew he had only one way to escape a nearly certain death: He would have to make good on his captors’ demand of a $3,500 ransom to buyContinue Reading
By JTA Staff, JTA World News ServiceContinue Reading
By JTA Staff, JTA World News Service (JTA)—For some boys reaching the age of bar mitzvah, donning a prayer shawl and reading from the Torah is exciting enough. But Sam Horowitz knew he wanted more. The Dallas teen is the star of a bar mitzvah video that has gone viral inContinue Reading
By Rafael Medoff, JNS.orgContinue Reading
By Rafael Medoff, JNS.org As the final minutes of Rosh Hashanah ticked away, 13-year-old Leo Goldberger was hiding, along with his parents and three brothers, in the thick brush along the shore of Dragor, a small fishing village south of Copenhagen. The year was 1943, and the Goldbergers, like thousands ofContinue Reading
By Ben Cohen, JNS.orgContinue Reading
By Ben Cohen, JNS.org One of the oft-repeated criticisms of the movement to boycott Israel is that it portrays the Middle East’s only healthy democracy as the ultimate rogue state, ignoring at the same time those authoritarian regimes that violate the most basic human rights on a daily basis. Frankly, that’sContinue Reading
By Jeffrey F. Barken and Jacob Kamaras, JNS.orgContinue Reading
By Jeffrey F. Barken and Jacob Kamaras, JNS.org HAIFA—Jay Ruderman has observed for years that when American Jewish leaders visit Israel or when Israeli leaders visit the United States, the conversation is “always about Israel” and how the Jewish state relates to Iran, Syria, the Palestinians, and others. “What’s happening inContinue Reading
By Jana Banin, JTNews CorrespondentContinue Reading
By Jana Banin, JTNews Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (JTA)—The debut season of Bravo’s reality show “Princesses: Long Island” has finally come to a close and I think it’s pretty safe to declare it a disappointment. Not that you would have had to watch all 10 episodes to reach this conclusion. The trailerContinue Reading
By Josh Lipowsky, JTNews CorrespondentContinue Reading
By Josh Lipowsky, JTNews Correspondent NEW YORK (JTA)—It started when she was 13. “Sarah” became involved with a man 10 years her elder. He began setting her up with his friends for sex. She knew they would sometimes pay him, but she always thought she could trust him. He became herContinue Reading
By JTA Newsdesk, JTA World News ServiceContinue Reading
By JTA Newsdesk, JTA World News Service BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA)—Orthodox Jewish boxer Dmitriy Salita said he will make aliya at the end of his professional career. On a visit to Argentina as part of fundraising activities for the network of Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish schools Oholey Jinuj, the Ukraine-born pugilist spoke withContinue Reading
By JNS staff, JNS.orgContinue Reading
By JNS staff, JNS.org (JNS.org) New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren printed a correction on Thursday to an earlier version of an article on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that she acknowledged incorrectly described United States policy on Jewish communities located beyond the pre-1967 lines. The original article stated that theContinue Reading
By Talia Levin, JTA World News ServiceContinue Reading
