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Rabbi Dror Shaul has always loved hiking, and spent many months trekking solo through the Himalayas. (Courtesy photo)
How a Himalayan Chabad house’s wildly popular rabbi almost became a Tibetan monk
By Nadine Wojakovski / Times of Israel
After a near-death experience while studying at a Buddhist monastery, Dror Shaul returned to Judaism — and India — setting up an outreach center for 20,000 travelers a year.
he National WWI Museum and Memorial opened to the public in 1926. (Courtesy of The National WWI Museum and Memorial)
October 12, 2018, 12:57 pm
An exhibit on Jewish life during World War I energizes a Midwestern community
It includes a range of artifacts tracing Jewish responses to the war — from early enlistment to outspoken opposition to efforts to help other Jews around the globe.
By Victor Wishna JTA
Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 economic summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 7, 2017. (Photo by Morris MacMatzen/Getty Images)
October 12, 2018, 12:54 pm
In rare rebuke, Russian chief rabbi slams missile transfer to Syria
“I think it’s a mistake that will only augment the region’s problems,” Berel Lazar, of the Chabad movement, said.
By JTA Reports
Denny Taylor founded the group Labour Against Anti-Semitism at 18. (Photo courtesy of Denny Taylor)
October 12, 2018, 12:51 pm
These non-Jews are fighting Labour anti-Semitism from the inside
Meteorology student at the University of Reading who describes himself as “just a kid with a laptop" is British Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn's most effective critic.
By Cnaan Liphshiz JTA
Police arrive after a synagogue was attacked in Gothenburg, Sweden, Dec. 9, 2017. (Photo by Adam Ihse/AFP/Getty Images)
October 12, 2018, 12:47 pm
Swedish prosecutors appeal decision not to deport firebomber
The man, Gaza-born Feras Alnadim, attacked a synagogue in Gothernburg in December with two accomplices.
By JTA Reports
A man brought for a court hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, under suspicion of Issuing fake bomb threats against Jewish institutions around the world, on March 23, 2017. (Photo by Flash90)
October 12, 2018, 12:42 pm
Trump signs law expanding hate crime protections
By JTA Reports
Silvia Foti while visiting a friend in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2013. (Photo by Ina Budryte)
October 12, 2018, 12:40 pm
Lithuania pays attention to Chicago teacher’s Nazi collaborator grandfather
Silvia Foti is fulfilling an old promise that’s become her life’s work: to write a biography of her late grandfather
By Cnaan Liphshiz JTA
Rescuers work in the rubble after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Mexico City, Sept. 19, 2017. (Photo by Rafael S. Fabres/Getty Images)
October 5, 2018, 10:21 am
A year after Mexico City earthquake, many Jewish groups still don’t have a home
In one remote town, residents are worried the next earthquake will be their last.
By Alan Grabinsky | JTA
Photographers capture a ceremony at a Jewish cemetery in Frampol, Poland. (Photo by ESJF)
October 5, 2018, 10:20 am
Nazis’ aerial photography is helping map and preserve Jewish cemeteries
Jewish cemeteries today are being degraded at an alarming rate from unregulated construction and vandalism. One group has a low-cost plan to save as many as they can.
By Cnaan Liphshiz JTA
Sweden is only one of five countries where the slaughter of animals without stunning — a requirement for producing kosher and halal meat — is illegal. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
October 5, 2018, 10:19 am
Swedish officials shutter Malmo’s only kosher meat shop, citing health reasons
The shop has sold frozen kosher meat for the past 20 years per an agreement with the leaders of Malmo's Jewish community of 800 people.
By JTA Reports
Sheldon Adelson at the Republican Jewish Coalition spring leadership meeting in Las Vegas in 2014. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
October 5, 2018, 10:16 am
Adelsons listed as the ‘biggest spenders’ in all of American politics
The couple recently gave $55 million to groups working to ensure Republican control of the House and Senate after the midterm elections.
By JTA Reports
Rabbi Dror Shaul has always loved hiking, and spent many months trekking solo through the Himalayas. (Courtesy photo)
September 27, 2018, 6:12 pm
How a Himalayan Chabad house’s wildly popular rabbi almost became a Tibetan monk
After a near-death experience while studying at a Buddhist monastery, Dror Shaul returned to Judaism — and India — setting up an outreach center for 20,000 travelers a year.
By Nadine Wojakovski / Times of Israel
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp arriving at the U.S. Capitol, Aug. 22, 2018. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
September 27, 2018, 5:55 pm
RJC launches $1 million ad campaign against senator who backed Iran Deal
The Republican Jewish Coalition launched the advertising campaign in North Dakota against its incumbent senator Heidi Heitkamp over her support for the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
By JTA Reports
A police motorcycle outside the B’nai Abraham Cemetery in Newark, N.J. (Photo courtesy of Dov Ben-Shimon/Facebook)
September 27, 2018, 5:54 pm
Homemade bomb found affixed to headstone in NJ Jewish cemetery
There is no indication that the device was targeted as a bias/hate crime incident, according to the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest.
By JTA Reports
A PVC pipe affixed to a telephone pole is used to mark an eruv, a boundary inside of which observant Jews may carry objects and push strollers outside of their homes on the Sabbath. (Photo by Ben Sales)
September 27, 2018, 5:53 pm
New Jersey township to repeal eruv prohibition
The ordinance said the affixing of PVC pipes on utility poles to demarcate the eruv violated town signage rules. State officials said it discriminated against Orthodox Jews.
By JTA Reports
The Cleveland Browns have signed kicker Greg Joseph. (Photo screenshot/Facebook/Cleveland Browns)
September 27, 2018, 5:52 pm
Cleveland Browns sign Jewish kicker Greg Joseph
The 24-year-old rookie played football and soccer at the Donna Klein Jewish Academy in Boca Raton, Fla.
By JTA Reports
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