Steven Sotloff, the journalist beheaded Tuesday by the Islamic State, was Jewish and a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen whose detailed and colorful reporting told stories of ordinary people caught in conflicts across the Middle East.
SYLVIA KAPELOW EVENSKY, who worked in commercial real estate development, died September 3. She was 95.
Evensky, who was an administrator with her husband Herbert for her brother Paul Kapelow, a shopping mall and commercial real estate developer, retired many...
NEW YORK (JTA) — When Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, the principal of Ramaz, an Orthodox day school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, first heard about last week’s attack in the neighborhood on a Jewish couple by a mob bearing Palestinian...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Jon Stewart’s directorial film debut, “Rosewater,” is set to premiere at film festivals in the United States and Canada this September. So the Hollywood Reporter took the opportunity to grab some golden quotes...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Syrian rebels have issued a list of demands for the release of U.N. peacekeepers stationed on the Golan Heights between Syria and Israel.
The 45 Fijian troops from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force have been held...
(JTA) — Some 3,500 demonstrators rallied in Frankfurt to protest a wave of anti-Semitic incidents in Germany.
Under the banner “Stand up! Never again anti-Semitism,” protesters outside City Hall on Sunday also expressed solidarity with religious minorities suffering persecution under...
(JTA) — Thousands gathered in central London to protest rising anti-Semitism in Britain.The rally Sunday outside the Royal Courts of Justice was organized by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism, a grassroots group formed in response to the...
