By JTA
The Ukrainian ultra-nationalist Svoboda party distanced itself from a recent anti-Semitic letter carrying its logo.
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By Reuters
Fifteen men of Palestinian origin have been arrested on charges of running a multi-million-dollar cigarette smuggling ring in New York, and New York authorities who announced the arrests on Thursday said several of the suspects have ties to Hamas and other Islamist militant groups.
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Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews protested in Jerusalem on Thursday against plans to enlist men from their community into the military, a proposal supported by the secular majority pushing for a more equal share of the burden on Israeli society.
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By JTA
Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice discussed the Middle East peace process and other regional issues with Jewish community leaders.
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By Reuters
Turkish Premier Recip Tayyip Erdogan says he plans to visit the Palestinian territories in June, rejecting U.S. request that he delay or scrap the trip.
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By JTA
A non-Jewish woman from Cork who risked her life to save Jewish children from the Nazis has become Ireland’s first Righteous among the Nations.
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By Dan Evan (Haaretz)
Despite similar risks as American Jews, relatively few Israeli woman choose to undergo the preventative breast cancer surgery undergone by Angelina Jolie.
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By JTA
Young men affiliated with the Chabad Hasidic movement are in some cases breaking dramatically with their community’s sartorial codes.
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By JTA
For its first pavilion at the prestigious Venice Biennale international art festival, the Vatican is presenting an exhibit inspired by the first book of the Torah, rather than by a New Testament theme.
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By Reuters
Israel plans to declare legal four unauthorised West Bank settler outposts, a court document showed on Thursday, days before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry returns to the region to try to restart peace talks.
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