Jews run Hollywood, the old cliche goes. So an outsider might find it strange that one of Hollywood’s biggest studios, Warner Bros., agreed to make a movie about one of the Jewish world’s greatest heroes with a star known for going on anti-Semitic...
Joy Sterneck Joy Sterneck has distinguished herself as a volunteer, serving a variety of roles in the community: as a tutor with OASIS and with an ESL program in the Parkway Schools; a member of the Jewish Fund for Human Needs committee, the Cultural...
JERUSALEM—Though the death last weekend of John Demjanjuk brought a close to the seemingly never-ending quest for justice in the case of a man long accused of being a Nazi war criminal, it also brought a premature end to the legal battle over his legacy.Though...
Jewish groups condemned Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for anti-Semitic attacks by government-controlled media on the opposition's presidential candidate, Henrique Capriles Radonski. The Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center in separate...
WASHINGTON -- Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel said Mitt Romney should speak up about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' practice of posthumous baptisms. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Wiesel said that Romney, the front-runner...
By Uriel Heilman, JTA
• Published February 14, 2012
NEW YORK -- Here's what the international Jewish media conspiracy looks like: Two men and four women, all clad in dark suits, sitting around a table in a windowless conference room in a nondescript office in midtown Manhattan. Together they run a global...
NEW YORK -- The publication of a 2010 photograph showing U.S. soldiers with a logo resembling a Nazi symbol was greeted with condemnations by Jewish groups. In the picture, taken in Afghanistan, American Marines are shown with a flag that reads "SS"...
By Toby Axelrod, JTA, BERLIN
• Published May 18, 2011
The guilty verdict pronounced May 12 against John Demjanjuk in a Munich courtroom was a long time coming.Following a trial that lasted a year and a half-capping more than three decades of legal drama-the 91-year-old former Ohio autoworker is now officially...
BERLIN — A Munich court has found John Demjanjuk guilty of war crimes, and sentenced the 91-year-old former autoworker to five years in prison. Thursday's verdict came after 93 court days, including deeply affecting testimony from Dutch survivors and...
