(JTA) — A senior Israeli official criticized the United States for allowing Iran’s reported purchase of civilian aircraft, a breach in the sanctions on the country. Iranian Transport Minister Abbas Akhoondi said on May 11 that Tehran bought 15 used...
(JTA) — An Israeli-born businessman who allegedly embezzled about $1 billion from three banks in Moldova lost a bid to end his house arrest. On Monday, a Moldovan court rejected the appeal by Ilan Shor, 28, who has been linked to the disappearance of...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A package of rings bearing the Islamic State logo and messages in Arabic that was confiscated at Ben Gurion International airport will be destroyed. The interception of the suspicious package from Turkey, containing about 120 silver...
A still from “German Concentration Camps Factual Survey” showing children smiling through barbed wire as Allied troops approach Bergen-Belsen, April 1945. (Imperial War Museum) “This was a woman,” the narrator explains, as the camera pans over...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — An Iranian suspect in the 1994 attack on the Buenos Aires AMIA Jewish Center has denied his country’s involvement and blamed Argentina for being “under the influence of Zionism.” Ali Akbar Velayati, a former Iranian...
(JTA) — Two major Jewish institutions have stepped in to provide a home for the art and artifacts of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum. B’nai B’rith International and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion will display...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A male supporter of Women of the Wall was arrested after trying to pass a Torah scroll to the women’s section of the Western Wall during prayers for the new Jewish month. The partitions separating the men’s and women’s sections...
(JTA) — A Texas judge was admonished publicly for referring to a district attorney as a “New York Jew” and saying a prosecutor’s beard made him look “like a Muslim.” In a ruling released Monday, the state’s Commission on Judicial Conduct...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Forget fancy pastries, cakes or tarts: Trifles are the best dessert you can make for entertaining. They are delicious and look beautiful and impressive, but are actually one of the easiest desserts you can make.
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(JTA) — A 65-year-old haredi Orthodox woman became the oldest woman ever to birth a child in Israel and one of the oldest in the world. Chaya Sarah Schachar of Bnei Brak delivered her first child, a healthy boy, on Monday at the Meir Hospital in Kfar...
The mayor of the northern Greek port city of Kavala said that the dedication of a disputed Holocaust memorial will take place “very soon.” The mayor appeared to walk back comments attributed to her last week by the country’s the Central Board of...
(JTA) — Jewish groups reported that authorities in the Greek port of Kavala want the Star of David to be removed from a Holocaust memorial or they will not permit its display. The American Jewish Committee said Friday that its partner body in Greece,...
