IDF Nabs 474 Deserters, Draft Dodgers in 6 Days

The Military Police arrested 474 people in the course of six days in Israel's largest ever manhuntof deserters and draft dodgers.   The IDF's Manpower Directorate dubbed the operation a su...

Arno Lustiger: Historian of Shoah Resistance Dies

BERLIN – Arno Lustiger, an autodidactic historian and author who brilliantly and meticulously chronicled Jewish resistance to the Hitler movement, died on Tuesday in Frankfurt.Lustiger, who survive...

S. Africa: W. Bank Products Won't be Labeled Israeli

PRETORIA – South Africa’s Department of Trade and Industry is preparing a policy change mandating that products originating from West Bank settlements not be labeled as Israeli products.In a stat...

Man Running For Senate Says He Agrees With Hitler

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming man who announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate on Friday has posted material on Facebook in recent months denigrating Jews and expressing agreement with be...

Traditional Jewish Burial Rituals Demonstrated at Metairie Synagogue

Within hours of Milton Fingerman’s death on Monday, Sandy Lassen picked up the phone and summoned the volunteers who would prepare him for burial: those who would wash his body, clothe him and...

Introducing: Talmud in Arabic

No one knows whether King Abdullah of Jordan knows how to learn a page of Gemara, but now he can, even if he doesn't know Aramaic.   A group of some 90 Jordanian researchers has spent six ...

Austrian Minister Calls Liberman 'Unbearable'

Austria’s Defense Minister Norbert Darabos called Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman “unbearable” in an interview published Saturday, downplayed the Iranian threat, and accused Israel of using t...

Iranian Flies Star of David Flag for Israel

Meet the former Iranian soldier who flies the Israeli flag above his north Manchester home, having fled torture in his home country. Ali Ramezan is an unlikely Israel supporter, but the 47-year-old, ...

A Successful Jewish Return to Tunisia

Fifteen months after the "Arab Spring" was first hailed, how are we to judge progress in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere? The protection of minority rights is always a bellwether, so I traveled to North...

European Jewish Congress Calls For Ban on Greece's Golden Dawn

The president of the European Jewish Congress, Moshe Kantor, has called for a ban on European far-right groups, following the victory of Greece's Golden Dawn in winning 21 parliamentary seats. Nik...
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