(JTA) — HIAS is distributing $330,000 in scholarships to 139 immigrants in the United States and Israel. The scholarships will help fund higher education for the immigrants. Sixty of the recipients live in the United States. The HIAS Scholars program helps the recipients with their education, as well as build social and professional networks, and [ Read More...]

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Obama administration explained its readiness to engage Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood in an e-mail to Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi of The Israel Project. “It’s important to remember that the Muslim Brotherhood is neither a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization nor designated under various counterterrorism executive orders or proclamations,” Danielle Borrin, the White House liaison [ Read More...]

By Ron Csillag TORONTO (JTA) – It’s an age-old question in the organized Jewish world: With so many similar-sounding organizations doing so much similar-sounding work, is there any way to streamline things and eliminate unnecessary duplication by consolidating like-minded agencies? While American Jewish organizations have rarely gone that route, in Canada some of the country’s [ Read More...]

Join Meetup’s Cincinnati Jewish Singles at the Szechuan House this Friday July 8 at 7 p.m. to expand your social network within the local Jewish community. ‘Szechuan Shabbat,’ hosted by the CJS group, will be a way to meet other singles in a casual setting. Enjoy the Chinese food and make friends in the process. [ Read More...]

Dear Avi and Adele: My husband of 10 years looks at other women when we go out even though we have a loving relationship. I know it’s probably normal, but it annoys me. What should I do? – Jewishly Jealous Dear Jealous: Your brain is already saying that you acknowledge that you’re not the only [ Read More...]

(JTA) — Four men, including two who allegedly are members of Hezbollah, were indicted in the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. A United Nations-appointed special tribunal based in The Hague handed over the indictments Thursday to Lebanese prosecutors. Hariri was assassinated in February 2005 when his motorcade was bombed in the Lebanese capital, [ Read More...]

(JTA) — Rabbi Chaim Stein, who was still serving as the rosh yeshiva at the Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland at the age of 99, has died. Stein, who died Wednesday, had re-established the yeshiva in Ohio in 1941 after leading a group of its students out of Lithuania in October 1940, ahead of the Nazi [ Read More...]

(JTA) — Three men who had plotted to blow up synagogues in New York City were sentenced to 25 years in prison. The men, all Muslim converts, were arrested in May 2009, after being caught in an FBI sting operation. They were convicted in October 2010 of planting bombs at the Riverdale Jewish Center and [ Read More...]

BOSTON (JTA) — Massachusetts and Israel will invest $2 million for collaborative research and development projects in the fields of life sciences, clean energy and technology. The agreement, to support innovation and entrepreneurship, was announced Wednesday by Gov. Deval Patrick at the annual Biotechnology Industry Organization convention in Washington, D.C. It is a joint venture [ Read More...]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Organizers of the Gaza-bound flotilla accused Israel of sabotaging a second ship, though they have no proof of this claim. The engine of the Irish-flagged ship “Saoirse” was seriously damaged Wednesday while docked in Turkey’s territorial waters, Haaretz reporter Amira Hass, who is scheduled to travel with the flotilla reported. Other reports [ Read More...]