Thursday, April 25th 2024 |
(JTA) — A Chabad center in Oklahoma City opened its building as a shelter for those displaced by a deadly tornado.
The Chabad Community Center of Southern Oklahoma also is collecting supplies for those left homeless by the tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday afternoon, leaving at least 24 people dead, including several children, and injuring hundreds.
“While we feel the pain of others,...
BERLIN (JTA) — A descendant of Richard Wagner, Adolf Hitler’s favorite composer, promised to hand over the correspondence of her late father to the Bavarian State Archives.
Katharina Wagner, a great-granddaughter of the composer and director of the annual Bayreuth Festival of his works, told the Tagesspiegel newspaper in Berlin that she plans to give Wolfgang Wagner’s letters to the archive in the near future in an effort to provide...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Internal Revenue Service reinstated the tax-exempt status of the Zionist Organization of America.
“The work of the ZOA has never been altered or diminished one iota during this period,” ZOA President Morton Klein said in a statement Monday announcing the May 15 IRS decision. “Our campus work; our Title VI efforts; our Capitol Hill work; our writings, lectures, TV and radio appearances have continued as always.”
...JERUSALEM (JTA) — Barbra Streisand will receive an honorary doctorate from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Streisand, the iconic Jewish-American singer and actress, will be presented with the degree at a ceremony on June 17 during the Hebrew University International Board of Governors meeting in Jerusalem.
In a statement, the university said Streisand was being recognized for “her professional achievements, outstanding humanitarianism, leadership in the realm of human and civil...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Threatening graffiti was spray-painted on the Jerusalem home of a longtime board member of Women of the Wall.
Some of the graffiti sprayed late Sunday or early Monday on the door and stairwell of Peggy Cidor’s apartment read in Hebrew “Women of the Wall are wicked,” “Peggy, your time is up,” “Peggy, we know where you live,” and “Jerusalem is holy,” according to the Women of the...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Former Argentinian dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who is believed to be responsible for the disappearance of thousands of the country’s Jews, died in prison.
Videla was serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity when he died on Friday at 87.
He had ruled the country from 1976 to 1981, gaining power with a coup toppling President Maria Estela Martinez de Peron, the widow of...
(JTA) — One of 16 Palestinians arrested in a cigarette-smuggling ring was linked to the 1994 murder of yeshiva student Ari Halberstam in a terror attack on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Muaffaq Askar, who was arrested late last week in New York in a plot that is believed to have cost the state millions of dollars in lost revenue, has long been suspected of supplying Rashid Baz with the guns he...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The pro-Israel group Z Street will have a hearing in court on its bid for tax-exempt status as an educational organization.
Z Street said on its website that the hearing will take place July 2 in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia.
“Two-and-a-half years after filing a complaint in federal court seeking relief from the Internal Revenue Service for viewpoint discrimination against our strongly pro-Israel...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — CIA director John Brennan made an unannounced visit to Israel to discuss the situation in Syria.
Brennan and Israel’s defense minister, Moshe Yaalon, in their meeting last Friday reportedly compared intelligence assessments on Syria and its two-year civil war. They also talked about Israel’s intent to continue striking shipments of advanced weapons destined for Hezbollah from Iran via Syria.
Syria has threatened to strike back at Israel...
JTA) — A Russian chief rabbi dedicated a Torah scroll at a new synagogue in Moscow. Rabbi Berel Lazar, who is affiliated with the Chabad movement, installed the scroll at the Michurinsky synagogue, which opened two months ago, the Interfax news agency reported. The dedication ceremony was held May 14.
“The ceremony means that now this place gets the status of a real home of worship, where Jews can hold...
