JERUSALEM -- Jews were barred from visiting the Temple Mount following Muslim agitation over inflammatory flyers. Police in Jerusalem prevented non-Muslims from visiting the Temple Mount Sunday morning after the discovery of flyers hanging in the area...
It has been said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. And that seems to be true of the "Way to Heaven" by Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga, which will run through Sunday at the New Jewish Theatre. Jewish Light critic Robert Cohn has already...
By Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 8, 2012
Yonatan "Johnny" Ariel, the executive director of Makom, the Israeli Engagement Network, spent a couple of days last week speaking with members of United Hebrew, Temple Israel, Shaare Emeth and B'nai Amoona. He came under the auspices of Focus Israel,...
Registration opens Wednesday, Feb. 15, for St. Louis Hillel at Washington University's summer 2012 Taglit-Birthright Israel: Israel Outdoors trip.At 9 a.m. (CST) registration opens for the trip, and organizers note that spots fill quickly. The trip is...
By Edmon J. Rodman, JTA
• Published February 6, 2012
LOS ANGELES -- On Valentine's Day, for a people tasked in the Bible with being fruitful and multiplying, what goods are good for the Jews? Perhaps sex toys from an Orthodox-oriented website that are not supposed to make you blush? Or maybe your pleasure...
By Joel N. Shurkin, JTA
• Published February 6, 2012
Scientists using ground-probing electronics may have discovered the missing mass graves at the site of Treblinka, one of the Nazis' most notorious death camps. No actual bodies were found and the graves were not excavated, in keeping with Jewish law,...
SNCF, the French national railroad, has handed over digital copies of hits World War II–era archives. The documents were transferred to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and the Shoah Memorial in Paris, SNCF said...
WASHINGTON -- Polls showed overwhelmingly negative feelings for Israel and Jews among Jordanians and Lebanese. The polls commissioned by The Israel Project in November and December and published Thursday showed 94 percent negatives for Israel and 99 percent...
JERUSALEM -- Seventy-one Ethiopians arrived in Israel accompanied by lay leaders from the Jewish Federations of North America. After landing Thursday at Ben Gurion Airport, the new immigrants and the delegation of leaders were taken to an absorption center...
ATHENS -- Greek Jewish parliamentarians from 1915 to 1936 were honored in a ceremony at the old Parliament building in Athens. The Greek parliament commissioned Greek Jewish writer Leon Naar to write a book about the 32 Greek Jews elected to parliament...
By Tami Lehman-Wilzig
• Published February 1, 2012
There's something about trees. Shel Silverstein's children's book classic "The Giving Tree" proves the point: Trees are sustenance. They provide comfort and love, even shelter. Unconditional love is what they bestow. But do we give back? As Tu B'Shvat...
A searchable database of Holocaust-era property records has reached more than two million records. Project HEART-Holocaust Era Asset Restitution Taskforce, an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel in cooperation with the government of Israel, says...
