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ZAKA Recovers Body of Jewish Canadian in Haiti
After a month of continuous recovery work to locate the body of the missing Canadian Jewish businessman Alexander (Shmuel) Bitton who was believed buried under the rubble of the Montana… Read More
Arava Institute for Environmental Studies
On February 4, Jewish National Fund held a cocktail reception hosted by BNY Mellon Wealth Management. David Lehrer, Director of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, came from Israel and… Read More
Haiti Response Spurs New Fund-Raising Tool: Texting
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s Next Gen initiative had been looking into launching a mobile giving campaign. When the earthquake devastated Haiti last month, suddenly the race was on… Read More
Israeli Ambassador Heckled During Speech
Israel’s ambassador to Washington was heckled throughout much of a speech on the University of California, Irvine campus, leading to the arrest of 12 protesters, including the president of the… Read More
Creating Biomedical Ties to Israel
Howard Rich, Debbie Mikels and Nick Brill have spent a year at Boston Biomedical Research Institute developing an exchange program to connect the Boston life sciences community with Israeli scientists.… Read More
Israeli President Peres Addresses Bundestag on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Address by the President of the State of Israel H.E. Shimon Peres at the German Bundestag on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2010. (The speech was delivered in Hebrew.)… Read More
Greek Government Slow to Respond to Rising Anti-Semitism
Until recently, Greece had gone a long time without violent anti-Semitism. The few manifestations of anti-Semitism here appeared mostly in the form of graffiti, racist screeds in marginal, neo-fascist publications,… Read More
For Religious Gays in Israel, New Initiatives are Providing Hope
Gidi Grunberg at 16 fell in love with a boy at his Orthodox high school near Tel Aviv. Consumed by guilt, he transferred to a high school that was more… Read More
Haiti’s Avoidable Death Toll
Some expect Haiti’s 7.0 earthquake death toll to reach over 200,000 lives. Why the high death toll? Northern California’s 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was more violent, measuring 7.1 on the… Read More
Israeli Relief Teams Aiding Hundreds
On the ninth day following the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti, Israeli emergency relief teams continue to provide vital services for victims of the disaster. An Israeli field hospital… Read More
JTA News Briefs
Plane Diverted over Tefillin Mistaken as Bomb Jan. 21, 2010 — A commercial flight was diverted to Philadelphia after a Jewish passenger’s tefillin were mistaken for a bomb. A passenger… Read More