globe
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Apr 24, 2013 | 0 
| 3 
| 
| 3 |
The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has used lethal chemical weapons, mostly sarin gas, against armed rebels several times in the past few weeks, and is continuing to do so, the head of...
Feb 28, 2013 | 0 | 15 |
full story
| 15 | 
Feb 11, 2013 | 0 | 10 |
full story
| 10 | 
Feb 07, 2013 | 0 | 15 |
full story
| 15 | 
Archives
Jun 05, 2009 | 0 | 12 |
| 12 |
NEW YORK (JTA) – The discovery in an Auschwitz bunker of a list with the names of 17 British soldiers has prompted a debate among historians.
The document was unearthed during routine preservation...
Jun 05, 2009 | 1 | 14 |
| 14 |
TORONTO (JTA) -- The love affair between Canada's Jewish community and the country's staunchly pro-Israel prime minister was readily apparent Sunday when Stephen Harper received a human rights awar...
Jun 03, 2009 | 0 | 15 |
| 15 |
NEW YORK — Self-described “snowbird” Marilyn Carroll earned a new nickname this winter as she walked the streets of Florida: Kvetch Lady.
“I grew up an only child,” Carroll told JTA. “So I like peo...
Jun 03, 2009 | 1 | 18 |
| 18 |
WASHINGTON — Jewish members of the U.S. Congress opposing a resolution expressing solidarity with the Jewish community in another country is rare, perhaps unprecedented. But it happened last week i...
Jun 03, 2009 | 0 | 13 |
| 13 |
WASHINGTON — Jewish organizations may want to “go green” but the challenges — from the cost to simply knowing which products to buy — can be complicated.
That’s where last week’s Jewish Sustainabi...
Jun 03, 2009 | 0 | 15 |
| 15 |
NEW YORK — Two months ago Sara Hurwitz — then the “spiritual mentor” at Rabbi Avi Weiss’ Orthodox synagogue, the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale — was given a new title: Maharat, a Hebrew acronym tha...
Jun 03, 2009 | 0 | 15 |
| 15 |
JERUSALEM — As the United States presses for progress in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking, President Obama is redoubling Washington’s efforts to strengthen Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abb...
Jun 03, 2009 | 0 | 16 |
| 16 |
RAMLE, Israel — A group of American Jewish philanthropists crowd into a classroom to watch Iman Abu Zaid, a young Arab teacher, give a lesson to her class of Jewish fourth-graders.
“You and I can c...
May 28, 2009 | 0 | 17 |
| 17 |
WASHINGTON — Jewish groups don’t endorse U.S. Supreme Court nominees, at least in writing.
The tears and choked sobs when Sonia Sotomayor accepted President Obama’s nomination on Tuesday told anoth...
May 28, 2009 | 0 | 11 |
| 11 |
WASHINGTON — The arrest of four men accused of plotting to attack two Bronx synagogues underscores the threat to Jewish targets by individuals or small groups, several experts said.
From the shooti...
