Poland, the country on whose soil Nazi Germany carried out the darkest acts of the Holocaust, is starting to re-connect with its other role in Jewish history, as a home for 1,000 years to one of the world’s biggest Jewish communities. The country will take a step in that direction next week with the opening…
(Reuters) – Egypt announced on Sunday it was postponing talks in Cairo on cementing the Gaza war ceasefire after closing its border with the Palestinian enclave in response to deadly attacks in the Sinai peninsula. Two attacks on Friday in Sinai, which borders the Gaza Strip and Israel, killed at least 33 Egyptian security personnel…
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin visited the Israeli-Arab village of Kfar Kassem and attended the memorial ceremony marking the 1956 massacre that killed 47 town residents. Rivlin on Sunday became the first sitting Israeli president to participate in the annual ceremony. “We must look straight at what happened in the Kfar Kassem massacre and teach all…
Riots broke out throughout eastern Jerusalem for the third consecutive day, while the funeral for the Palestinian man who carried out a terror attack in Jerusalem was postponed. Palestinian rioters threw Molotov cocktails and rocks, and burned trash bins in communities throughout eastern Jerusalem on Saturday, including targeting the Beit Orot yeshiva located on the…
Miami’s oldest bar, Tobacco Road, a popular watering hole where suit-and-tie-clad lawyers belly up alongside hippies gathering signatures for medical marijuana petitions, is preparing for last call. The cramped, musty space near Miami’s downtown thrived for decades as a gambling den frequented by Al Capone, as well as a strip club and legendary blues bar….
Austria inaugurated a monument on Friday to thousands of its nationals who deserted Hitler’s army during World War Two, marking a new step in efforts to acknowledge the nation’s wartime past. Germany annexed Austria in 1938, making it part of Hitler’s Third Reich that wrought destruction across the continent and slaughtered millions of Jews in…
Rabbi Dr. Judith Abrams, the founder and director of the online Talmud learning website, MAQOM, died of a heart attack Wednesday in Houston. She was 56. Abrams, who made a career of Jewish teaching and learning, was a relative latecomer to Jewish study. Inspired by a semester studying in Soviet-era Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), where…
A Palestinian boy was shot dead during clashes between Israeli soldiers and stone-throwing protesters in the occupied West Bank on Friday, medics and residents said. Orwah Hammad, 14, was shot in the head in the village of Silwad, north of the Palestinian seat of government in Ramallah. An army spokesman told Reuters Israeli forces “managed…
Soda machine maker SodaStream International Ltd said it would sell some of PepsiCo Inc’s brands through its soda machines on a test basis later this year. SodaStream shares surged almost 19 percent to $25.15 in afternoon trading on Friday. The Israeli company was not currently in talks with Pepsi for a broader agreement, it said…
(JTA) — Worried that the food you thought was kosher, or at least kosher style, has some hidden pork? Now, using a few test tubes, water and a small pregnancy test-like strip, you can find out in a few minutes whether your food contains pork traces. HalalTest, a new product developed by two French entrepreneurs, does…
Lawyers for a naturalized American citizen of Palestinian descent who is accused of concealing a conviction on terrorist bombings in Israel asked a federal judge to bar references to terrorism at her trial. Rasmieh Yousef Odeh is set to go on trial in U.S. District Court in Detroit on Nov. 4, for failing to disclose…
