WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Iraqi government is extending the stay of the Iraqi Jewish Archive in the United States.“In order to continue this important work and to allow the exhibit to be displayed in other cities in the United States, the Government of Iraq has authorized me to extend theContinue Reading
Despite claims by Vladimir Putin that everyone else is blaming the world’s woes on the Jews, it appears that videos from the Kremlin’s TV station are doing just that, according to a story from The New Republic.Continue Reading
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel has launched a campaign to have Yom Kippur recognized as an official holiday on the United Nations calendar. The U.N. officially recognizes 10 holidays, including Christmas and Eid al-Fitr. Absent from the official holidays is a Jewish one. A holiday at the U.N. entails aContinue Reading
By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) – A lot of people around the world hate the Jews. That’s the main finding of the Anti-Defamation League’s largest-ever worldwide survey of anti-Semitic attitudes. The survey, released Tuesday, found that 26 percent of those polled — representing approximately 1.1 billionContinue Reading
Maramures County in northern Transylvania is opening its first Holocaust education center, The Holocaust Cellar, on Sunday, May 18. The town is the childhood home in Romania of Nobel Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. The site of the new center is in the old Jewish ghetto of Sighet in MaramuresContinue Reading
By Rafael Medoff, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — On the outskirts of Cairo, on a blistering hot afternoon in May 1942, British Army chaplain Rabbi Louis Rabinowitz ordered the driver of his military transport truck to pull over for a group of uniformed women who were hitchhiking. “WeContinue Reading
Canadian Heritage Minister Glover, Foreign Affairs Minister Baird and Multiculturalism Minister Uppal announced this morning the team that will create a national Holocaust monument in Ottawa, Canada. The team includes world-renowned architect Daniel Liebeskind and led by Gail Dexter Lord, co-president of Toronto-based Lord Cultural Resource, which was responsible forContinue Reading
Three undergraduates from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Technion in Israel are developing an electronic guide dog for the blind. The students came up with the idea when one of them, Tzahi Simkin, saw a blind man struggling to cross the street. Simkin along with his two colleagues areContinue Reading
Amsterdam’s 18-year-old annual Pride Canal Parade will include, for the first time ever this year, a Jewish boat, which Monday, got the thumbs up from British actor Stephen Fry. The Jewish boat is scheduled to make waves on Amsterdam’s Prinsengracht canal on August 2. The ship was one of about 80Continue Reading
By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA) — When she decided to split up from her husband, she went before an Orthodox rabbinical court and, after two perfunctory hearings and little discussion, received a religious writ of divorce. It was only months later that the woman learned thatContinue Reading
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Days before Israel’s 66th Independence Day, the Israeli population reached 8.18 million people, according to a report by the country’s Central Bureau of Statistics. This is more than 10 times the size of the population (806,000) when independence was declared in 1948. Israel’s Jewish population numbers aboutContinue Reading
This week, the world said farewell to beloved British-Jewish actor, Bob Hoskins.Hoskins was best known for roles like Lou in “Mermaids” and Eddie in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” His passing came after a bout of pneumonia. Read more on Tablet Magazine. Continue Reading
Research has shown that, according to the halachic tradition of Judaism being passed down maternally, the late archbishop of New York, Cardinal John O’Connor, was actually a Jew. Through genealogical research, the cardinal’s sister, Mary O’Connor Ward, recently discovered that her mother was actually born a Jew and converted toContinue Reading
By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line By age 20, Elad Peled was a senior commander in the Palmach, one of the branches of Israel’s pre-state army. He was wounded during the fighting, and was taken to the hospital. On the way, he passed the Israeli town of Pardes Hanna, andContinue Reading
A new Fatwa issued by the Amman today allows visiting Muslims to enter the Al-Aksa Mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. The new Fatwa cancels out what previously disallowed travelers from visiting the holy site, however there has been an emphasis placed on the fact that this should not be consideredContinue Reading
Saying that a return to normal relations with Israel could come in a matter of weeks, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said one issue is holding up the final signatures on the agreement: That of humanitarian aid to the Palestinians. Read the full article from the Jerusalem Post.Continue Reading
(JNS.org) On Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, world leaders called for the combating of anti-Semitism. President Barack Obama said in a statement, “On this Yom HaShoah, let us recommit ourselves to the task of remembrance, and to always oppose anti-Semitism wherever it takes root. Together, we must give enduringContinue Reading
By Felice Friedson and Linda Gradstein, The Media Line Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday that Israel should annex the 60 percent of the West Bank that is under full Israeli control, and that includes all of the Jewish communities built since acquiring the areas in the 1967Continue Reading
By Abdullah H. Erakat, The Media Line [RAMALLAH] — Dr. Hanan Ashrawi was the first woman elected to the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Ashrawi served in Palestinian governments and is a former spokesperson for the Palestinian delegation to the Mideast peace talks, beginning with the MadridContinue Reading
By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line When Cindy Flash wanted to make eggs benedict a few days ago, she turned to a new cooking app developed in Israel, called Look & Cook. “It’s a great idea — you set up your tablet in the kitchen and you can see allContinue Reading
