(JTA) — An undercover video captured the owner of a Los Angeles kosher meat market bringing unsealed boxes of chicken into the store, leading to the revocation of the store’s kosher certification.
Mike Engelman, the owner of Doheny Glatt Kosher Meats, was videotaped on March 12 directing his employees to unload boxes of meat from his car while the store’s kosher supervisor was absent. The footage led the Rabbinical Council...
(JTA) — Israeli security forces arrested and indicted some 30 Palestinians from the Bethlehem area who are suspected of belonging to a terrorist network.
The defendants were arrested in January and February in Beit Fajar, a village near the Palestinian city, Army Radio reported March 28 following the expiration of a gag order on the arrests.
They were arrested in an operation coordinated by Israel’s General Security Service and are...
(JTA) — The number of Israelis who view President Obama as pro-Palestinian dropped by 20 percent following his first presidential visit to Israel, according to a new poll.
In the poll conducted March 24 by Smith Research for the Jerusalem Post, 27 percent of 500 Israeli respondents said they considered the Obama administration more pro-Israel than pro-Palestinian, 16 percent said he was more pro-Palestinian, 39 percent were neutral and 18...
BERLIN (JTA) — I was 23 when I first met my cousin Gilbert Michlin. He was sitting at a brasserie near his office in Paris wearing a dark suit with a folded handkerchief poking out of the breast pocket. His short, dark hair was perfectly combed.
He said, in charmingly accented English, “There is one thing I must tell you: I was in Auschwitz.”
Touro Synagogue has announced a series of events designed to integrate its members with those who are part of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (and Questioning) LGBT community.
The LGBT Awareness Week begins with the “Milk and Cookies” event on Monday, April 8 at 6:00. The film “Milk!,” which stars Sean Penn in the titular role, will be shown. The film details the life of gay rights activist and...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — For a trip that U.S. officials had cautioned was not about getting “deliverables,” President Obama’s apparent success during his Middle East trip at getting Israel and Turkey to reconcile has raised some hopes for a breakthrough on another front: Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
The question now is whether Obama has the means or the will to push the Palestinians and Israelis back to the negotiating table.
We all applaud when an old man runs in the marathon. We expect that his physical powers diminished long ago, and when he proves otherwise we celebrate for him. We are impressed when an old woman professor can still give an extemporaneous lecture, drawing upon her memory of things she learned long ago. We expect that her mental powers have considerably weakened,...
Two deaths connected to local community members have been noted today. Conservative Congregation Shir Chadash notified members of the passing of BETTY JAFFE, the wife of their member Heinz Jaffe. That funeral took place on March 29 in The Villages, FL.
Also, Touro Synagogue announced the death of EDNA (MANN) ARONSON, aunt of their member Helena Nathan. Aronson died Saturday, March 23 in Bessemer, Alabama and was subsequently buried there.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Obama in his Passover message cited the Israeli national anthem’s invocation of an ancient Jewish longing for a homeland.
“Last week, I visited the State of Israel for the third time, my first as president,” Obama said in his message Monday just hours before the start of the holiday. “I reaffirmed our countries’ unbreakable bonds with Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu and [Shimon] President Peres.
SYDNEY (JTA) – The man known as Prisoner X unwittingly leaked classified information to Lebanese authorities, leading to the arrest of two Hezbollah agents who were spying for Israel.
Ben Zygier, an Australian-Israeli citizen who was working for the Mossad, botched an attempt to recruit a spy for the agency, according to an expose in Der Spiegel.
Zygier was attempting to restore his reputation in the Mosad by attempting to...