Tel Aviv – Dozens of Palestinian-made Qassam rockets landed on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard last week, placed there by students from the heavily shelled Negev town of Sderot. The graphic street exhibition was planted on the placid tree-lined artery in an effort to focus public attention on the nearly daily barrage of Palestinian rockets raining…
As the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany held its annual board meeting this week, it took a step that may help it fend off recent charges of financial mismanagement. A few days before the annual meeting of the Claims Conference — the international body charged with negotiating Holocaust restitution settlements — the organization…
WJC Taps New Official The newly elected president of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald Lauder, has reportedly tapped a B’nai B’rith executive to assume the controversy-laden post of secretary general at the WJC, the representative body of world Jewry. Daniel Mariaschin, executive vice president of B’nai B’rith International, is set to take over the post…
Rabbi Abraham Klausner, the first Jewish chaplain in the U.S. Army to enter the Dachau concentration camp after its liberation, died June 28 at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 92. He died several years after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, his wife, Judith, told The Associated Press. Klausner had been a leading…
Washington – One the most famous Jewish Army chaplains was laid to rest in New Mexico last week after the Army denied his request to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. The disagreement over the burial of Rabbi Abraham Klausner was the final clash with military authorities for a rabbi who always believed that army…
Moshe Decter, an activist and writer who was instrumental in raising world awareness about the plight of Soviet Jewry in the 1960s, died July 5 of congestive heart failure. He was 85. Decter was one of the first to begin writing publicly about the persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union. With funding from a…
Check out this open letter to Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman from rival Al Franken …
Perhaps someday, we’ll look back on the moment when Anabel Hirano hefted her trombone and began her Jewish Community Youth Orchestra audition as the start of something big. Hirano, 16, might be headed for stardom and so might the JCYO, which organizers believe could be the first of its kind in the nation — an…
‘I have cancer,” Jonathan said. Thyroid cancer. A nodule the size of an egg. Jonathan’s primary-care doc found it during a regular checkup. Neither of us could believe we’d never noticed it; now we could clearly see it pressing on his throat when he swallowed. He got hoarse easily, and felt pressure in his neck…
The summer season is marked in a special way here in New York. I’m not talking about blooming trees or free concerts in the park (although both of these things are pretty great). Summer in New York officially arrives when everyone starts drinking iced coffee. It’s especially visible on my daily commute. For most of…
NATAN SHARANSKY HONORED BY WORLD’S ONLY MUSEUM OF JEWISH DIASPORA “I was a totally assimilated Jew… didn’t know [where] Jerusalem was,” admitted Natan Sharansky, former member of Israel’s Knesset. Sharansky was the honoree at the May 11 American Friends of Beth Hatefutsoth Museum of the Jewish Diaspora gala, held at New York’s Hotel St. Regis….
