JTA) — Belgian police arrested a person suspected of terrorism, but at this point see no connection to the Brussels Jewish museum shootings, a police spokeswoman said.
“Following the events last Saturday, the federal police prioritized certain cases,” Wenke Roggen of the Belgian Federal Police told the Belga news agency on Tuesday. “In one of those cases, which concerned involvement in a certain activity of a terrorist group, today an...
NEW YORK (JTA) – The Montefiore Health System is assuming operational control of Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein School of Medicine.
Montefiore will take responsibility for the financial management of Einstein, but Y.U. will remain the degree-granting institution with “a key role in the educational aspects of the entity,” according to a joint statement issued Tuesday by the institutions, which have collaborated on some level for 50 years.
COURTNEY ELIZABETH GIARRUSSO, who overcame difficulties as a spina bifada patient since birth and went on to earn her master’s degree in mental health counseling two years ago, passed away on Tuesday, May 27, 2014. She was 33.
Giarrusso graduated from Our Lady of Holy Cross College in 2012, shortly before her father, attorney and former Magistrate Judge Joseph Giarusso, died. However, both he and his wife, Orleans Parish Civil...
BRUSSELS (JTA) — A crowd of approximately 2,000 gathered for a silent vigil in front of the Jewish museum in Brussels where an unidentified shooter killed four people.The gathering on Sunday came 24 hours after the shooting at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in the center of the country’s capital.Prime Minister Elio di Rupo was among the Belgian politicians who cleared time to attend...
BRUSSELS (JTA) — Hunched over a small island of memorial candles for the victims of the attack on the Jewish Museum of Belgium, Paul Ambach is lost in thought.
“Once again, Jewish blood in Belgium, which is no longer Belgium,” said Ambach, a well-known Jewish musician from Antwerp, as he stared at the candles Sunday from a vigil for the four...
By CNAAN LIPHSHIZKIEV, Ukraine (JTA) — At an empty Chabad school near the banks of the Dnieper River here in Ukraine’s capital city, six uniformed Jews with handguns and bulletproof vests are practicing urban warfare.Leading the training last week is a brawny man who at irregular intervals barks Hebrew-language commands at the men to test their drilled responses to different scenarios, including “ma’atzor” (firearm...
JEFFREY KLINGER RAYMOND, an accountant and real estate manager, died on Friday, May 23, 2014, in Metairie, Louisiana, after a prolonged illness. He was 59.
Although he never married, Jeff had many friends. His greatest affection was reserved for his nephew, Robert, the pride of his life, whom he helped raise and treated as a son. Among his many hobbies, raising and photographing orchids was a...
