JTA
By JTA
-
Fast Forward German Jews Get Europe’s First State-Run Divinity School
Europe’s first state-run Jewish divinity program, the School for Jewish Theology, has opened at the University of Potsdam outside Berlin. The program, which was opened on Monday, is being called a groundbreaking development in the German university system, which up to now has only subsidized Catholic and Protestant theological training programs. Recently Islamic programs also…
-
Fast Forward Brandeis Suspends Ties With Palestinian Al Quds University Over ‘Nazi’ Rallies
Brandeis University has suspended its partnership with the Palestinian Al-Quds University. Brandeis University President Frederick Lawrence made the announcement Monday, saying the university will re-evaluate the relationship in the future. The universities have been sister institutions since 1998. The decision was made in light of recent events at the university, which has campuses in Jerusalem,…
-
Fast Forward Baby Granddaughter of Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh Treated in Israel
The granddaughter of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh was admitted to an Israeli hospital. One-year-old Amal Haniya crossed from Gaza into Israel to be treated at Israel’s Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Petah Tikvah, accompanied by her grandmother, according to reports based on Palestinian sources. The girl reportedly had a serious infection of her digestive…
-
Fast Forward David Makovsky Joins U.S. Peace Talks Team
David Makovsky, a scholar at a think tank with close ties to the U.S. and Israeli governments, has been named to the U.S. State Department’s burgeoning Israel-Palestinian peace-brokering team. The news of Makovsky’s appointment was first broken Monday by Al-Monitor, a Middle East news website, and then confirmed by his employer, the Washington Institute for…
-
Fast Forward Hungarian Jewish Poet’s Statue Struck By a Car, Breaks in Half
A statue of Hungarian Jewish poet Miklos Radnoti, who was killed by Hungarian Nazis at the end of 1944, was broken in two parts after being struck by a car. The Radnoti statue in the village of Abda, in western Hungary, was either hit on purpose or by a drunken driver on Sunday, a police…
-
News Claims Conference Receives $4 Million Grant from Weinberg Foundation
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany received a $4 million grant from The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation to provide emergency assistance to Holocaust survivors in North America. The Baltimore-based Weinberg Foundation announced the grant on Monday. The Weinberg Holocaust Survivors Emergency Assistance Fund (Holocaust Survivors Emergency Fund) of the Claims Conference underwrites…
-
Fast Forward Forbes Sorry for Expose on Polish Jewish Leaders
The Polish edition of Forbes magazine apologized for three articles about the restitution of prewar property of Jewish communities that targeted the leaders of Poland’s organized Jewish community and several Jewish organizations. The apology for the articles published in September was published Monday on the magazine’s website. The original articles were titled “Who are our…
-
Fast Forward Ex-Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger Arrested for Million-Dollar Bribes
Former Israeli chief rabbi Yona Metzger was arrested on suspicion that he received bribes, as well as committed money laundering and fraud, during his time as Ashkenazi chief rabbi. Metzger was arrested Monday, following a several-month-long investigation. A Petah Tikvah court remanded to police custody for nine days. The Israel Police National Fraud squad believes…
Explore
Most Popular
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward In first move as U.S. ambassador, Charles Kushner accuses President Macron of failing to protect French Jews
-
Fast Forward Atlanta man fired following wife’s antisemitic rant against father of slain American-Israeli soldier
-
Opinion When Jewish migrants were trapped and terrified in Florida — like Alligator Alcatraz inmates today
-
Opinion Trump’s attacks on the Smithsonian come straight from the Nazi playbook
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
