At the annual U.N. General Assembly<\/a>, President Barack Obama focuses his speech on the ISIS, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likens Iran to ISIS and Iranian\u00a0President Hassan Rouhani blames the West\u2019s blunders for fomenting the terrorists of ISIS. Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas issues a scathing attack against Israel for\u00a0its conduct in the summer\u2019s war with Hamas in Gaza.<\/p>\n October 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n Rabbi Barry Freundel, the longtime spiritual leader of the Kesher Israel synagogue in Washington, D.C., is\u00a0arrested and charged with\u00a0voyeurism <\/a>following the discovery of hidden cameras that recorded women undressing in the Orthodox synagogue’s mikvah. The following February, Freundel pleads guilty<\/a> to 52 counts of voyeurism. The case roils the Orthodox world.<\/p>\n Rabbi Avi Weiss, an ardent political activist who espouses\u00a0a liberal brand of Orthodoxy, announces his planned retirement<\/a> from the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in New York. Weiss is the founder of the Yeshivat Chovevei Torah rabbinical school for men and Yeshivat Maharat school for\u00a0female Orthodox clergy.<\/p>\n “The Death of Klinghoffer” \u2014 an opera based on the true story of an elderly American Jewish man in a wheelchair killed by terrorists aboard an Italian cruise ship \u2014 opens at the\u00a0Metropolitan Opera House<\/a> in New York amid protests that the production is anti-Semitic and sympathetic to terrorists. Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and two former New York governors, David Paterson and George Pataki, are among those who protest the New York opening of an opera that had its worldwide debut in 1991.<\/p>\n Chaya Zissel Braun, a 3-month-old American citizen, is killed<\/a> when a Hamas terrorist crashes a car into a Jerusalem rail station. A second victim<\/a>, a 22-year-old tourist from Ecuador, dies several days later from injuries sustained in the attack.<\/p>\n Relations between the Obama White House and Prime Minister Netanyahu reach a new low after an anonymous American official calls the Israeli leader a “chickenshit” in an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic. U.S. officials condemn the remark\u00a0and Secretary of State John Kerry calls Netanyahu<\/a> to apologize.<\/p>\n Open Hillel, the movement launched to counter the campus organization’s regulations on Israel programming, holds its first national conference<\/a>, at Harvard University. The two-day gathering, titled “If Not Now, When?,” draws some 350 participants for a conference aimed at pushing back against Hillel International rules prohibiting programs that feature groups or individuals who “delegitimize” Israel or support the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions movement against the Jewish state.<\/p>\n Rabbi Gil Steinlauf, the senior rabbi at a large Conservative congregation in Washington, D.C., announces he is gay<\/a>. The announcement is received positively<\/a> by the leadership of his synagogue, Adas Israel.<\/p>\n SodaStream, the Israeli at-home seltzer machine company, announces that it will close its West Bank factory<\/a> and move the facility\u2019s operations to southern Israel\u00a0in 2015. The company says the move out of the Jewish settlement of Mishor Adumim is unrelated to boycott threats.<\/p>\n The core exhibit of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews<\/a>, a more than $100 million complex first conceived over 20 years ago, is inaugurated with Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on\u00a0hand.<\/p>\n November 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n As Republicans retake the Senate in midterm elections, a state senator from New York’s Long Island,\u00a0Lee Zeldin, is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives<\/a>, becoming the sole Jewish Republican in Congress.<\/p>\n Four Jewish immigrants<\/a> and a Druze policeman are killed during morning prayer services in a terrorist attack at a\u00a0Jerusalem synagogue,<\/a> Bnei Torah Kehillat Yaakov\u00a0in the Har Nof neighborhood. The victims include Rabbi Mosheh Twersky, the dean of the Torat Moshe Yeshiva and the grandson of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the founder of modern Orthodoxy.<\/p>\n The mayor of Ashkelon is roundly\u00a0criticized<\/a> for laying off city Arab workers in the aftermath of the deadly synagogue attack in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s Cabinet grants initial passage to a controversial bill that would identify Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people<\/a>, prompting concern at home and among some American Jews<\/a> that it\u00a0will prioritize Israel\u2019s Jewish character over its democracy.\u00a0Acrimony over the bill sparks a coalition crisis<\/a>\u00a0that ends up dissolving the Knesset in early December<\/a>\u00a0and sending Israel to\u00a0early elections<\/a> scheduled for the following March.<\/p>\n Steven Pruzansky, a New Jersey Orthodox rabbi known for his incendiary rhetoric, is broadly criticized for publishing a blog post<\/a> saying that Arabs in Israel are an enemy that must be “vanquished.” The post, titled “Dealing with Savages,” draws a strong rebuke from the Orthodox Union<\/a>, which calls it “anathema to the Jewish religious tradition.”<\/p>\n As the Ebola epidemic<\/a> spreads in three countries in Africa, IsraAid becomes the sole Israeli or Jewish organization on the ground in the hot zone.<\/p>\n A state monitor slams<\/a>\u00a0the East Ramapo Central School District in New York’s Rockland County<\/a> for giving preferential treatment to Orthodox schoolchildren who do not attend public schools. The school board, which is majority Orthodox, had been under fire for years for allegedly diverting public funds to religious schools.<\/p>\n Jonathan Greenblatt, a former special assistant to President Obama, is named<\/a>\u00a0the next national director of the Anti-Defamation League. Greenblatt is slated to replace Abraham Foxman<\/a>, the ADL’s leader since 1987.<\/p>\n World powers, led by the United States, extend the deadline in negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program<\/a> to June 30, 2015, prompting a call by AIPAC for new sanctions against the Islamic Republic. Ultimately, additional sanctions are not levied during the negotiations, which last until a deal is struck in early July 2015.<\/p>\n December 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n France\u2019s parliament,\u00a0the National Assembly, votes 339-151 to urge the French government to recognize the state of Palestine<\/a>.\u00a0The vote follows similar motions passed the previous\u00a0month by parliaments in Britain and Ireland.<\/p>\n An oil pipeline ruptures<\/a> near the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat, causing a spill that is called\u00a0one of Israel\u2019s worst environmental disasters.<\/p>\n The United Auto Workers Local 2865<\/a>, which represents more than 13,000 teaching assistants, tutors and other student workers in the University of California system, approves a resolution to join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel,\u00a0becoming the first major U.S. labor union to hold a membership vote on Israel and BDS.<\/p>\n The New Republic’s longtime literary editor, Leon Wieseltier, and editor Franklin Foer\u00a0quit the 100-year-old magazine<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0protest its new direction under new owner\u00a0Chris Hughes, a\u00a0Facebook co-founder. The magazine\u00a0has\u00a0a long history of Jewish editors and coverage of Jewish issues.<\/p>\n The European Parliament passes a resolution that supports, in principle, recognition of a Palestinian state<\/a> as part of peace talks with Israel, in a 498-88 vote with\u00a0111 abstentions. Meanwhile, the\u00a0General Court of the European Union annuls\u00a0Hamas\u2019 inclusion on a blacklist of terrorist groups<\/a>, saying the 2001 decision was based on press reports and not legal reasoning.<\/p>\n Alan Gross, a Jewish-American contractor for the U.S. government who had spent five years in a Cuban prison for helping connect Cuban Jews to the Internet,\u00a0is released and returned to the United States<\/a>\u00a0as part of a sweeping deal to restore diplomatic ties between Washington and Havana.\u00a0Gross subsequently thanks the\u00a0American Jewish community<\/a>\u00a0for helping secure his freedom.<\/p>\n Jewish immigration from France to Israel reaches an all-time record of nearly 7,000 <\/a>in 2014, more than doubling the French aliyah rate in 2013 and far outstripping immigration to Israel from the United States. Overall, immigration to Israel hits\u00a0a 10-year high in 2014 with approximately 26,500 new immigrants<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Conservative movement youth group USY votes to relax rules<\/a> barring teenage board members from dating non-Jews.\u00a0The change, adopted at the group’s annual convention in Atlanta,\u00a0affects the 100 or so teen officers who serve on USY\u2019s national board.<\/p>\n President Obama signs the 2014 United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act<\/a>. The law, which unanimously passed the House and Senate, declares Israel a “major strategic partner,” upgrades the value of American weapons stockpiles in Israel and grants the Jewish state improved\u00a0trade status.<\/p>\n As 2014 draws to a close, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics announces that the country’s population grew by 2 percent in 2014, to\u00a08.3 million<\/a>. Of them,\u00a074.9 percent are counted as Jews, 20.7 percent as Arabs and 4.3 percent as others.<\/p>\n January 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n Streit’s announces it is\u00a0closing<\/a>\u00a0its historic, six-story matzah factory on New York’s Lower East Side, where the company produced the Passover staple for 90 years. It will\u00a0relocate operations to New Jersey.<\/p>\n JTA, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency,\u00a0announces it is merging<\/a> with MyJewishLearning to create 70 Faces Media. The new organization’s three primary brands \u2014 the news and syndication portal JTA.org, the Jewish encyclopedia MyJewishLearning.com and the parenting website Kveller.com \u2014 are to remain distinct.<\/p>\n Bess Myerson, the only Jewish woman to win the Miss America pageant, dies at 90<\/a>. Myerson won the competition in 1945.<\/p>\n Four Jewish men are killed<\/a> by an Islamic gunman during a hostage siege at a kosher supermarket in Paris two days after a pair of Islamic gunmen storm the Paris offices of a satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, killing 11. The supermarket gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, is killed when police storm the Hyper Cacher market. Almost simultaneously, police kill the perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo attack \u2014 brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, who were friends with Coulibaly \u00a0\u2014 at a printing plant just outside Paris. The events, which prompt\u00a0a massive anti-terrorism demonstration<\/a> in Paris, stoke fears of French Jews<\/a> about their future in the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n Actor Michael Douglas is named the winner<\/a> of the Genesis Prize. The $1 million award, given by a consortium of philanthropists from the former Soviet Union, is meant to recognize accomplished Jews who demonstrate commitment to Jewish values.<\/p>\n Alberto Nisman <\/a>\u2014 the indefatigable Argentine prosecutor collecting evidence of culpability in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires \u2014 is\u00a0found shot to death in his apartment, just hours before he is to present evidence to Argentina\u2019s congress<\/a> that he said implicated his country\u2019s president and Jewish foreign minister in a scheme to cover up\u00a0Iran\u2019s role in the bombing. Argentine\u00a0President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner first calls the death a suicide, then a murder<\/a>, while protesters hold rallies in Buenos Aires demanding justice in the Nisman case. Months on, the mysterious circumstances surrounding Nisman’s death remain unresolved.<\/p>\n New York State Assembly Speaker\u00a0Sheldon Silver is arrested<\/a> on federal corruption charges.\u00a0One of the state’s most powerful politicians and high-profile Orthodox Jews<\/a>, Silver soon\u00a0steps down<\/a>\u00a0as speaker but retains his Assembly seat while the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n House Speaker John Boehner invites Prime Minister Netanyahu<\/a> to address\u00a0a joint session of Congress on\u00a0Iran\u2019s nuclear program. The move\u00a0sparks a showdown with the Obama administration, which says the invite breaks protocol by circumventing the White House and is inappropriate, given that the Israeli leader is in the midst of an election campaign. American Jews are deeply divided<\/a> over whether Netanyahu should\u00a0speak\u00a0to Congress over Obama’s objections, and a partisan row<\/a>\u00a0over the issue ensues<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Conservative movement\u2019s flagship institution, the Jewish Theological Seminary, announces plans\u00a0to sell<\/a> two dorms, some of its air rights and potentially part of its library building in order to finance an ambitious redevelopment project at its Manhattan\u00a0campus.<\/p>\n Portugal\u2019s government<\/a> adopts legislation that offers citizenship to some descendants of Sephardic Jews,\u00a0making Portugal the second country in the world after Israel to pass a law of return for Jews.<\/p>\n FEGS<\/a>, a Jewish charity and one of the largest social service agencies in the United States, abruptly shuts\u00a0down<\/a> after losing $19.4 million\u00a0in 2014.\u00a0The 3,000-employee agency, which is a major\u00a0beneficiary of UJA-Federation of New York, had said it\u00a0served 12,000 people daily in such areas as home care, job training and immigrant services. The news comes just days after another major New York Jewish social services agency, the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, announces it is looking to merge or partner with other organizations or perhaps close altogether.<\/p>\n February 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n Brandeis University President Frederick Lawrence announces he will step down<\/a> at the end of the academic year. Lawrence led the historically nonsectarian, Jewish-sponsored university for five years and was the institution’s eighth president.<\/p>\n Comedian Jon Stewart announces he is leaving<\/a> “The Daily Show,” the mock news program he anchored\u00a0for 16 years and built into a political and cultural touchstone.<\/p>\n Europe’s Jewish population is pegged at 1.4 million<\/a>, down from 2 million in 1991 and 3.2 million in 1960, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Overall,\u00a0European Jews account for about 10 percent of the world Jewish population, compared to 57 percent in 1939, the eve of the Holocaust.<\/p>\n CBS News reporter Bob Simon, an\u00a0Emmy Award-winning correspondent who was held captive in Iraq for 40 days while covering the Gulf War in 1991, is killed in a car crash<\/a> in New York. He\u00a0was 73.<\/p>\n A gunman attacks the main synagogue in Copenhagen<\/a>, killing a security guard. The attack comes just hours after\u00a0a gunman\u00a0kills one person at a cafe in the city, where a caricaturist who had lampooned Islam was speaking. The attacks are\u00a0seen as a wake-up call for Danish Jews to the threat of Islamic terrorism. As a gesture of solidarity,\u00a0Muslims in neighboring Norway form a \u201cpeace ring<\/a>\u201d around an Oslo synagogue.<\/p>\n The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film<\/a> goes\u00a0to \u201cIda,\u201d a Polish movie\u00a0about a Catholic novitiate who learns she is the daughter of Jewish parents killed by the Nazis.\u00a0But Israel\u2019s losing streak at the Oscars continues as \u201cAya\u201d fails\u00a0to win for Best Short Film.<\/p>\n More than half of U.S. Jewish college students witnessed or experienced anti-Semitism<\/a>, an\u00a0online survey conducted by two professors at Trinity College finds.<\/p>\n In a landmark case, a\u00a0New York jury orders the PLO\u00a0and the Palestinian Authority to pay more than $218 million in damages to American victims<\/a> of six terrorist attacks that took place in Israel between 2002 and 2004 and were attributed to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade and Hamas. The Palestinian Authority pledges to appeal.<\/p>\n Leonard Nimoy, the actor who portrayed the iconic character Spock on “Star Trek” for over four decades on television and in film, dies at 83<\/a>. Born in Boston to Yiddish-speaking Orthodox parents, Nimoy had said he derived Spock’s trademark split-finger salute from the priestly blessing that involves a physical approximation of the Hebrew letter “shin.”<\/p>\n March 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n Amid lingering controversy, Prime Minister Netanyahu addresses a joint session of Congress<\/a> to warn of the emerging Iran nuclear deal. Several Jewish lawmakers skip<\/a>\u00a0the address. Obama says the speech offers “nothing new<\/a>,” and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA., calls it an\u00a0“insult to the intelligence<\/a> of the United States.”<\/p>\n The Reform movement’s rabbinic group, the Central Conference of American Rabbis,\u00a0installs Denise Eger<\/a> as its first openly gay president.<\/p>\n The Swarthmore Hillel votes to disaffiliate<\/a> from Hillel International to\u00a0protest the Jewish campus group’s rules\u00a0on Israel programming. In 2013, the Pennsylvania college’s Hillel ignited a national debate on Hillel International’s Israel policies, which restrict programs with speakers who support boycotting the Jewish state.<\/p>\n Netanyahu wins a fourth term<\/a>, his third in a row, as Israel’s prime minister, roundly defeating his main challenger, Isaac Herzog of the Zionist Union. Netanyahu’s remarks in the\u00a0days before the election prove highly controversial, as he says a Palestinian state will not be established under his watch and warns on Election Day about Arab-Israelis turning out to vote “in droves<\/a>.” The comments are condemned<\/a> in the United States by the Reform and Conservative movements and\u00a0by President Obama.<\/a>\u00a0Netanyahu later<\/a> apologizes to Israel’s Arabs and\u00a0insists he still backs a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/p>\n Seven children, ages 5 to 16, are killed in a Brooklyn house fire<\/a> reportedly caused by a malfunctioning Sabbath hot plate. The children’s mother, Gayle Sassoon, and her daughter Tziporah sustain injuries in the blaze but survive; the father was out of town at a religious conference. The children are buried in Israel.<\/a><\/p>\n Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is found guilty<\/a> of fraud under aggravating circumstances and breach of trust for accepting cash-filled envelopes from U.S. Jewish businessman Morris Talansky and using it for personal gain. Olmert’s lawyers later appeal<\/a> the verdict in what is known as the “Talansky Affair.”<\/p>\n April 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n Negotiators for the United States, five other world powers and Iran reach a framework accord<\/a> for a deal to limit Iran’s nuclear program and set June 30 as the deadline for a final, comprehensive deal.<\/p>\n Women of the Wall, a group that promotes women’s religious rights at the Western Wall, for the first time reads from a full-size Torah scroll<\/a> during its monthly prayer service at the Kotel, contravening regulations there.\u00a0The Torah\u00a0was passed across the barrier between the men\u2019s and women\u2019s sections by male supporters. The following month<\/a>, police block and arrest a\u00a0man who attempts to repeat the effort.<\/p>\n Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein<\/a>, a leader of the national religious movement in Israel, a head of the Har Etzion Yeshiva in the West Bank\u00a0and a prominent modern Orthodox scholar, dies\u00a0at 81.<\/p>\n The White House acknowledges that a U.S. drone strike in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border area in Januaryaccidentally\u00a0killed Warren Weinstein<\/a>, the Jewish-American government contractor who had been held hostage by al-Qaida since 2011. An Italian hostage, Giovanni Lo Porto, who was held captive since 2012, also was killed in the strike on an al-Qaida-linked compound.<\/p>\n The American Jewish Reconstructionist movement is roiled by debate <\/a>about whether to drop its longstanding ban against intermarried rabbinical school students. Some synagogues threaten to quit the movement if the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College becomes\u00a0the first of America\u2019s four major Jewish religious denominations to ordain intermarried rabbis; the debate continues.<\/p>\n Ethiopian-Israeli protesters clash with police<\/a> during demonstrations throughout Jerusalem over two attacks<\/a> against Ethiopian-Israelis by Israeli law enforcement, one of which is captured on video. The attacks spark a national debate<\/a>about racism in Israel.<\/p>\n May 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n Ed Miliband, the first Jewish leader of Britain\u2019s Labor Party, fails to become his country\u2019s first Jewish prime minister as the incumbent, David Cameron of the\u00a0Conservative Party, handily wins reelection and secures 331 of the 650 seats in the Parliament. Miliband resigns immediately <\/a>after the defeat.<\/p>\n Rabbi Freundel is sentenced<\/a> to\u00a0nearly 6 1\/2 years in prison<\/a> \u2014 45 days for each of the 52 counts of misdemeanor voyeurism. Additional court documents show Freundel also engaged in extramarital sexual encounters<\/a>.<\/p>\n The U.S. Congress overwhelmingly passes\u00a0a bill providing for its approval<\/a> of any Iran nuclear deal.<\/p>\n Shlomo Riskin<\/a>, rabbi of the West Bank city of Efrat, is summoned to a hearing by the Chief Rabbinate\u2019s governing body on the\u00a0future of his position. An Orthodox progressive on women’s issues and conversion, Riskin vows not to go, suspecting\u00a0the Chief Rabbinate is looking for a\u00a0pretext\u00a0to dismiss him.\u00a0The Rabbinate later backs down<\/a> and renews<\/a>Riskin’s position.<\/p>\n Rochelle Shoretz, the founder of the national cancer group Sharsheret after being diagnosed with breast cancer at 28, dies of the disease at 42<\/a>.<\/p>\n June 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n After a lengthy story in The New York Times detailing his habit\u00a0of inviting young males to join him for naked heart-to-heart talks in the sauna,\u00a0Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt of the Riverdale Jewish Center<\/a> in New York asserts he is innocent of any crime but says he\u00a0regrets if his conduct offended anyone.\u00a0Congregants at his\u00a0Orthodox synagogueare\u00a0divided<\/a> over whether or not to dismiss him. Rosenblatt eventually rebuffs offers<\/a> to buy out the remainder of his contract, vowing<\/a> he will stay on as leader of the shul.<\/p>\n The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down<\/a>\u00a0a\u00a02002 law allowing U.S.\u00a0citizens to list Jerusalem as their place of birth. The case was brought by the parents of 12-year-old Menachem Zivotofsky<\/a>, whose parents sought the passport listing not long after\u00a0his birth.<\/p>\n Spain\u2019s lower house of Parliament passes\u00a0a law offering citizenship<\/a> to descendants of Sephardic Jews, the result of a 2012 government decision that described\u00a0the law\u00a0as compensation for the expulsion of Jews during the Spanish Inquisition.<\/p>\n David Blatt<\/a>, the first Israeli to serve as head coach of an NBA team, guides the Cleveland Cavaliers to the league finals. Blatt’s club loses to the Golden State Warriors in six games after taking a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series.<\/p>\n The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict<\/a> finds that Israel\u2019s military and Palestinian armed groups committed \u201cserious violations\u201d of international human rights law during their 2014 summer war.\u00a0While the report accuses both sides of possible war crimes, its findings focus more on what it considers Israeli wrongdoing. Israel, which refused to cooperate with the investigation, slams the outcome.<\/p>\n Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing, an Orthodox Jewish nonprofit that purports to help gay men become heterosexual,\u00a0is\u00a0found guilty<\/a> of\u00a0violating New Jersey’s Consumer Fraud Act and is ordered to pay\u00a0$72,000 in damages to three former clients. The plaintiffs said\u00a0JONAH claimed a success rate it could not prove and used scientifically questionable therapy methods.<\/p>\n Days before the U.S. Supreme Court endorses the right to same-sex marriage, the Public Religion Research Institute finds that\u00a0American Jews are among the country’s most supportive religious groups of same-sex marriage<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Pine Bush Central School District<\/a> in upstate New York agrees to pay nearly $4.5 million to settle a lawsuit alleging widespread anti-Semitic harassment.\u00a0The 2012 suit by five former and current students was due to go to trial in July.<\/p>\n Israeli parliamentarian Michael Oren, Israel’s former ambassador to the United States and before that a respected American-Israeli historian, causes a stir with a\u00a0new book, “Ally,”<\/a> suggesting that President Obama purposely damaged U.S.-Israeli relations.<\/p>\n July 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n Iran and six world powers led by the United States reach a historic\u00a0agreement<\/a> to curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the easing of sanctions. President Obama says the deal cuts off<\/a> all of Iran’s pathways to a nuclear bomb. Prime Minister Netanyahu calls\u00a0the deal a “stunning historic mistake<\/a>.” AIPAC quickly launches an all-out effort<\/a>to have Congress scuttle the deal.<\/p>\n A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard, Oskar Groening<\/a>,\u00a0is sentenced by a German court to four years in prison for his role in the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews in the concentration camp.<\/p>\n
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