Jailed American Jewish contractor Alan Gross visited Cuba at least five times in one year to set up wireless Internet connections, according to a report citing leaked court documents. The report Thursday by The Associated Press comes two days after Juan...
WASHINGTON—The Obama administration said an Iranian lawmaker had mischaracterized its letter warning against blocking the Strait of Iran and reiterating its commitment to dialogue. Ali Mothari, was quoted by The Associated Press Wednesday as saying...
Menachem Z. Rosensaft, JTA
• Published January 18, 2012
NEW YORK -- It is virtually impossible to imagine anything more reprehensible than the recent spectacle of haredi Orthodox Jewish boys wearing yellow stars of David and simulated striped black-and-white concentration camp uniforms at a demonstration...
The danger of Iran Western leaders recognize that a nuclear Iran poses a grave danger to the entire world. More than 30 percent of the world's oil supply passes through the Strait of Hormuz, over which a nuclear Iran would exercise unchallenged control....
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration expects a significant drop in foreign dealings with the Central Bank of Iran in the next two months. U.S. officials launched a campaign to have countries that deal with Iran to comply with new sanctions as soon as...
Chabad's Jewish Learning Institute will begin two courses beginning in late January: one on Judaism's relevance in modern life, taking place over 11 Wednesday evenings starting Jan. 25 and another focusing on Jewish Business Ethics, taking place over...
Nusach Hari B'nai Zion has announced that Janet Haber has been named board President-the first female president in the congregation's history."I'm not excited because having a woman president is simply groundbreaking, or because it's daring to break with...
JERUSALEM -- An Israeli attack on Iran is "very far off," Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said. "We haven’t made any decision to do this. The entire thing is very far off," Barak said during an interview Wednesday with Israel's Army Radio after...
LOS ANGELES -- Joseph Cedar is on a pretty good run: The Israeli director has made four movies in his 11-year career, and the first three have represented his country at the Academy Awards for best foreign-language film. One made the cut of five finalists,...
More than 6 million Jews are living in the United States, according to two independent studies. The two studies, using completely different methodology, discovered between 6.4 million and 6.6 million U.S. Jews, or about 1.8 percent of the population,...
JERUSALEM -- Israeli President Shimon Peres will visit the United States in March. Peres will leave for the United States on March 1 to attend the annual AIPAC Policy Conference, where the organization will pay tribute to him "in recognition of his life...
Eighty Holocaust and genocide scholars signed a petition calling on President Obama to condemn Libya's new government for hosting a visit by Sudanese President Omar Bashir. Bashir has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for his role in the...
