Trying to stay out of Syria
Border clashes may make it hard for Israel to steer clear of the Syrian conflict By BEN SALES JERUSALEM (JTA) ...
Tag: American Jewish World
'Fill the Void' from Israel opens June 14
In her debut film, Rama Burshtein portrays her community of observant Jews, ‘trying to say something from within’ By MICHAEL ...
Local Jewish community reacts to 1967 Six-Day War
The front page of the June 9, 1967 edition of the American Jewish World focused on support for Israel during ...
All carrying the burden
Israel faces the conundrum of having large segments of its population that loathe the nation’s very existence By MOSHE GIT ...
NECHAMA responds to disaster needs in Oklahoma
Staff and volunteers are focusing relief efforts on areas that haven’t had as much attention On May 20 and 21, ...
A rabbi to Jews of the Far East
Rabbi Marvin Tokayer, who was Japan’s only English-speaking, university-trained rabbi for 10 years, will attend the local commemoration of the ...
Editorial: Returning to Israel
The Marc and Henia (z”l) Liebhaber Prize for the Promotion of Religious Tolerance in Israel was established in 1996, after ...
A Shoah memoir of courage, perseverance
Sky Tinged Red, by Isaia Eiger, translated by Dora Eiger Zaidenweber, Beaver’s Pond Press, 415 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by NEAL ...
Film asks: What’s the matter with Texas?
If certain evangelical Christian members of the Texas State Board of Education had their druthers, school kids in the Lone ...
Who is to blame for restitution fraud?
After botched probe, Claims Conference chairman Julius Berman addresses accountability By URIEL HEILMAN NEW YORK (JTA) — Now that it's ...
