NEW YORK (JTA) -- Israel's test of a missile defense system was declared a "major milestone" in its efforts to establish viable barriers to a missile strike. The test of a joint Israeli-American system was conducted Friday morning over the Mediterranean...
By Jason Miller, JTA
• Published February 10, 2012
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. -- More than 65 years ago Kurt Kaufmann was liberated from the Auschwitz concentration camp. This weekend his U.S.-born grandson, Evan Kaufmann, is taking the ice for the German national hockey team. After finishing a successful...
WASHINGTON -- A poll showed that nearly half of likely voters believed the United States should use military force to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. According to the poll, published this week in The Hill, a newspaper that specializes in...
TORONTO -- Rabbi Gunther Plaut, a major figure in Reform Judaism, died in Toronto. Plaut, a former president of the Canadian Jewish Congress who wrote widely on human rights, died Wednesday at the age of 99. He often was quoted by media around the world...
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Howard Berman introduced legislation that would allow eligible Israeli nationals to receive non-immigrant investor visas in the United States. The legislation introduced Thursday would grant Israelis the ability to acquire the...
LOS ANGELES -- Larry Greenfield has been named national executive director of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs in Washington, D.C. The announcement was made Thursday by JINSA President David Ganz. JINSA was founded in 1976 as a non-partisan...
WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan slate of U.S. senators will present a resolution calling on the Obama administration to make a "nuclear-weapons capability" by Iran a red line. The non-binding resolution, to be introduced Thursday by Sens. Robert Casey (D-Pa.),...
WASHINGTON -- Jewish groups split on a federal appeals court ruling that allows same-sex couples to marry in California. The 2-1 decision Tuesday by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Proposition 8, a 2008 ballot measure that said same-sex...
WASHINGTON -- Calls are growing in Congress to reconsider U.S. aid to Egypt. Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas), the chairwoman of the foreign operations subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, said Tuesday that a recent...
By Jake Weisman, Ladue Horton Watkins High School
• Published February 8, 2012
Israel is constantly in the news, frequently brought up in political discussion, and often discussed among Jewish teens as a vacation hotspot. But now, Israel has gained recognition for the vast output of jazz musicians in recent years."[I think that]...
Last week when I took a walk with my 2½ year old to the park where we have had a small community garden plot for the last year, I did not expect to see resilient winter edibles, lettuces, kale, broccoli; forgotten foodstuff that I thought had surely...
By Lily Siwak, Ohr Chadash, Clayton High School
• Published February 8, 2012
The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) of Topeka, Kan. is best known for its extreme stance against homosexuality and its protest activities, which include picketing funerals of American soldiers and violating the American flag. WBC has conducted over 30,000...
