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Eliezer Rumpler of the Lev Tahor Jewish sect arrives at the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing on May 26, 2020. Guatemalan police last Friday removed 160 children and adolescents from the ...
In Yael van der Wouden’s debut novel, “The Safekeep,” the writer spins an erotic thriller out of the Netherlands’ failure to face up to the horrors of the Holocaust.
US prosecutors have charged Michail Chkhikvishvili, also known as “Commander Butcher,” with a litany of crimes, including alleged attempts to poison Jewish children in NYC.
Dispatch from Romania: Anti-Jewish Student Protests? Looking Back to History Jul 12, 2024, 1:37 PM Edit. ... US begins evacuating Mideast embassies, army bases as Iran nuclear talks come to a head.
A US delegation on religious freedom said Monday it cut short its visit to Saudi Arabia after one of its members was asked to remove his Jewish head covering, or kippah. The United States ...
Romania, a former ally of Nazi Germany, on Tuesday marked its decision to make the Holocaust and Jewish history part of the school curriculum, with Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu saying facing up ...
Among the ranks were some of Allentown’s leading Jewish citizens. At their head was Max Hess Sr., founder with his brother Charles of Hess Brothers Department store, which was rapidly becoming ...
Israel’s envoy to Romania met Monday with the head of a local right-wing party accused of antisemitism, breaking a boycott by Israel of the party, and drawing criticism from the Yad Vashem ...
Romania supports Israel’s demand for Palestinian recognition of Israel as Jewish state, but encourages compromises. By JTA JANUARY 21, 2014 11:01 Romanian president Traian Basescu.
A landmark event for Jewish religious rights today took place Tuesday in Bucharest, Romania. The rabbinic leaders of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER), the umbrella organization representing ...
Orthodox Jews gathered in Uman to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, at the tomb of a rabbi who preached his vision of a joy-filled life in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
(JTA) As a Modern Orthodox rabbi who works at a Jewish day school in Montreal, Sorin Rosen knows his way around a prayer book. But that wasn’t always the case. “I remember when I was a … ...