By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service In a word, get away! Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings, the 9/11 attacks, the 1995 Beit Lid bombing in Israel: ll these attacks share a deadly similarity. They came in multiples. During the suicide bombings of the 1990s, Israelis learned the hard way that whenContinue Reading
By , JNS.org (JNS.org) The student government at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) has rejected an Israel divestment resolution in the latest victory for pro-Israel students in the University of California (UC) system. After a 14-hour hearing—most of which was devoted to the Israel divestment resolution—that lasted from WednesdayContinue Reading
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By Alex Traiman, JNS.org Israel recently crossed a major energy milestone when the daily supply of natural gas began flowing from the Tamar offshore reserve—gas that is expected to power Israel’s electricity production for the coming decades. But while the domestic use of gas makes Israel less dependent on foreign energyContinue Reading
By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line It started around the time of his Bar Mitzvah at age 13, when Tomer Hen decided it was time to open his first business. “I wanted to be independent and not take money from my parents,” Hen told The Media Line. “I was too youngContinue Reading
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By , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan Sharansky reportedly presented a plan to Jewish leaders in New York calling for a permanent egalitarian prayer section at the Western Wall. The proposal, first reported by the Forward on Tuesday and later shared byContinue Reading
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By , JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA)—Global anti-Semitism increased by 30 percent in 2012 over the previous year, an annual report found. Following two years of decline, there was a “considerable escalation” in the level of violent acts and vandalism against Jews in 2012, according to the global anti-SemitismContinue Reading
By , JTA World News Service (JTA)—Poland’s Jewish community has about a one-month supply of kosher meat left, following a ban on ritual slaughter. Piotr Kadlcik, president of the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland, confirmed to JTA on Monday from Warsaw that Poland will run out of kosherContinue Reading
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA)—History will remember former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for relentlessly facing down communism and helping to turn back more than three decades of socialist advance in her country. But it was Thatcher’s embrace of British Jews and insistent promotion of Jews inContinue Reading
By Steven Blum, Special to JTNews The Jew in the Box” is not here. “Today is Shabbat, I’ll be back on Sunday,” reads a notice taped near where he usually sits. I consider sitting down on the purple chaise and fielding questions myself. “Oh my favorite young Jewish actress? Lena Dunham,Continue Reading
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service MEMPHIS, Tenn. (JTA)—Cantor Ricky Kampf descends from the bimah, adjusts his prayer shawl and strides up the aisle, cutting through the cavernous sanctuary to greet the familiar out-of-towner. “Y’all here for the shindig?” Kampf says at the Baron Hirsch Synagogue here as he graspsContinue Reading
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