By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA World News Service BRUSSELS (JTA)—Bulgaria claims it has previously undisclosed evidence that further implicates Hezbollah in a deadly terrorist attack last year on Bulgarian soil, JTA has learned. A Bulgarian representative to the European Union said Wednesday that investigators have discovered that a Hezbollah operative was theContinue Reading
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By Ben Harris, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA)—More than three years ago, following a broad Orthodox backlash to his decision to ordain a woman with the title “rabba,” Rabbi Avi Weiss made a promise: He wouldn’t do it again. So when Yeshivat Maharat, the school founded in 2009 byContinue Reading
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By JNS staff, JNS.org (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is not “deluding” itself following the victory of relative moderate Hassan Rohani, who had the backing of reformists, in the Iranian presidential election. “We are not deluding ourselvesContinue Reading
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By Gil Shefler, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA)—No earth was moved last month at the groundbreaking of one of the nation’s newest Holocaust memorials. Instead, the gatherers stood silently, symbolic shovels in hand, on the immaculate lawn where the privately funded $400,000 monument will soon rise. A succession ofContinue Reading
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA)—How do you confront hatred when it has no fixed address? Abraham Foxman, the Anti-Defamation League national director, attempts to pin down an answer to the question in his latest book, “Viral Hate.” Co-authored with privacy lawyer Christopher Wolf, the book chronicles theContinue Reading
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By Lisa Alcalay Klug, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA)—With the creation of David’s Slingshot Hoppy Summer Lager, beer maker Jeremy Cowan is evoking the image of the legendary battle between David and Goliath—a match-up that’s also apt for Cowan himself. Though still a small player in the world ofContinue Reading
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By JTA News Desk, JTA World News Service (JTA)—Organizers of a Jewish festival in Budapest said they will try to set a world record for the tallest kosher sandwich. Many dozens of bread slices will be used to construct the tower on Sunday on Kazinczy Street in the Hungarian capital’s so-calledContinue Reading
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA)—Susan Rice has said that a “huge” portion of her work at the United Nations was defending Israel’s legitimacy. Her new job will likely be no less Israel-centric. President Obama plans Wednesday to name Rice his national security adviser and replace her atContinue Reading
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By , JTA World News Service (JTA)—A former U.S. attorney is moving to the West Bank to help the Palestinian Authority strengthen its justice system in anticipation of statehood. John McKay, a federal prosecutor for the Western District of Washington State from 2001 to 2007, will work for the U.S.Continue Reading
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA)—In 1982, Frank Lautenberg was running for New Jersey’s U.S. Senate spot at a time when Democrats in the state were down on their political fortunes. The Jewish community knew and liked Lautenberg, a data processing magnate who died Monday at 89 afterContinue Reading
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