By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 22, 2012
In many ways, paper may not seem the most enduring medium but it often represents the strength of traditions that were made to last. Such it is with the Haggadah, an aspect of Passover that, thanks to Israeli artist Archie Granot, has now been rendered...
By Linda Gradstein, JTA
• Published February 22, 2012
JERUSALEM—As his weight dropped and his face grew gaunt, Khader Adnan became the latest Palestinian cause celebre.Israel arrested Adnan, a 33-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank village of Arraba, on Dec. 17 and placed him in administrative detention....
Suspected terrorists with links to Iran and Hezbollah were arrested in Azerbaijan. The suspects are accused of planning terrorist attacks against foreigners in Baku, the nation's capital, the National Security Ministry said in an announcement Tuesday...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published February 22, 2012
Nancy Falchuk, immediate past national president of Hadassah, the world's largest Jewish women's organization, was upbeat about the group's national, global and local strength a year after it took a major "hit" from the Bernard Madoff scandal. She also...
Block Yeshiva High School is once again selling raffle tickets as part of a nationwide drawing through the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation. The deadline is March 18 to buy tickets. For purchase of a $100 ticket, participants are eligible for the $100,000...
St. Louis Hillel has announced that Hadag Nachash, an Israeli hip-hop group, will perform at the Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard, at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 6. Several Washington University student groups secured funding for the concert through the university's...
"The Debt" and "Three Mothers" will headline Congregation Temple Israel's fifth annual Israeli Film Festival on Sunday, March 11. "The Debt" will open the festival at 3 p.m., followed by a panel discussion of the film. Complimentary Israeli refreshments...
By Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 22, 2012
The St. Louis branch of the American Jewish Committee is asking the Missouri Legislature in Jefferson City to send the Iranian government in Tehran a strong symbolic message. The AJC wants the legislature to pass a bill this spring that would ban companies...
WASHINGTON -- Israel is the eighth most-favored country by Americans, a Gallup poll found. Some 71 percent of Americans view Israel favorably, a three-point increase over last year’s results of 68 percent, the Gallup poll, conducted Feb. 2-5, measured. ...
LOS ANGELES -- For Israelis, winning the country’s first Oscar would be akin to scoring the first Olympic gold medal at the 2004 games in Athens.“If ‘Footnote’ gets the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, the reaction would be tremendous,”...
JERUSALEM -- The leaders of Israel's cottage cheese boycott are calling for a new boycott over the high price of chocolate bars. The calls came earlier this week after an Israeli living in the United States posted a photo on Facebook of a receipt from...
An Iranian soccer team canceled a game against a Serbian club because its coach is Israeli. Avram Grant, who last month was named manager of the Partizan Belgrade soccer club, said in a statement on the team's website that he had been told "unofficially"...
