Archive for the ‘International News’
For Lithuania, $50 million Holocaust compensation a step forward, but Jewish bitterness remains
By Ben Sales Jewish Telegraphic Agency NEW YORK (JTA) — Lithuania’s 800-year-old connection to its Jewish population broke down in 1941, when the Nazis invaded the country and murdered nearly all of its 200,000 Jews – often with the complicity of local Lithuanians. This month, 70 years on, Lithuania finally passed historic compensation legislation to [ Read More...]
Tunisia’s Jews keep wary eye on political developments
Tunisia’s Jews keep wary eye on political developments
With fond memories of native land, Iranian Israelis worried by talk of war
Iranian Israelis worried by talk of war
With Sacks retiring, British Jews mixed on relevancy of chief rabbi
With Sacks retiring, British Jews mixed on relevancy of chief rabbi
International Briefs
Arab-Israeli lawmaker in Ottawa speech calls for West Bank boycott TORONTO (JTA) — An Arab-Israeli member of Israel’s Knesset appears to have contravened an Israeli law by calling on Canadians to boycott Israel. Ahmad Tibi, the deputy speaker of the Knesset, called for a boycott of companies and products linked to Israeli towns in the [ Read More...]
Monument honors helpers of Czech Jewish family that hid in woods from Nazis
By Bruce Konviser Jewish Telegraphic Agency TRSICE, Czech Republic (JTA) — Nearly 70 years after a Czech Jewish family sought refuge from the Nazis by retreating into a nearby forest and relying on non-Jewish locals for help, an American high school teacher has helped erect a permanent monument to their memory. Last week, several dozen [ Read More...]
Tzipi Livni’s fall followed a meteoric political rise
By Mati Wagner Jewish Telegraphic Agency JERUSALEM (JTA) — Tzipi Livni’s resounding fall in the leadership vote for Kadima, Israel’s largest political party, was as dramatic as her rise to political power. Ahead of last week’s vote, most polls were predicting that Livni would defeat Shaul Mofaz, a former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff. [ Read More...]
Crisis-hit Greek Jews fear for their future
By Gavin Rabinowitz Jewish Telegraphic Agency ATHENS, Greece (JTA) — Patricia Alcalay, 24, has been unemployed since she finished her nursing degree in December 2010. Her father lost his job four months ago, a year shy of retirement. Her older sister, who was studying abroad, meanwhile, found work in the Netherlands and is not coming [ Read More...]
Xavier faculty helps Ethiopian Jews immigrate to Israel
By Joshua Mizrachi Assistant Editor Operations Moses, Joshua and Solomon are all fitting names for the immigrant iniatives of moving Ethiopian Jews to Israel. Over the past 25 years these operations have helped large populations of Ethiopian Jews move to Israel safely. Two Xavier faculty members recently got an up-close experience of these immigrations. From [ Read More...]
Attack leaves French Jewish community shaken
Attack leaves French Jewish community shaken
