World Stories
The General Assembly of the World Congress of Russian Jewry (WCRJ) opens in Jerusalem on Wednesday, May 21.
The creators of PresenTense are among the recipients of an Avi Chai fellowship.
Remarks by President Bush as he addressed the members of the Knesset on May 15.
On March 14, 2008, Iranians voted for the first round of the eighth Majlis (parliament). It is already clear that the conservatives will maintain their comfortable majority.
Elie Wiesel has recruited 25 of his fellow Nobel laureates to sign a letter condemning the Chinese government's "violent crackdown" on protestors in Tibet.
Rrecent college graduates spend a year doing national service on urban poverty issues, making a connection between social activism and Jewish life.
Student Zionist leaders get together for a weekend of intellectualism, education, and brainstorming about the future of Israel and the Zionist movement.
Though Argetina’s Jewish community is shrinking, it stands strong in its solidarity with Israel, its commitment to Jewish education and its observation of Jewish holidays.
Experts speak to the community about the forces for change and the drive for power in Iran.
Dr. Rick Hodes, medical director in Ethiopia for the UJC/Federation-supported American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), was featured in a segment on "CNN Heroes," a program that highlights individuals for their extraordinary achievements.
Anti-Semitism, once at the forefront of Russian nationalism and electoral politics, has ceased to be a viable political tool.
Rice tells Jewish community she believes Israel and Palestinians must make "painful sacrificies" to achieve peace.
Russian Jewish entrepreneur and politician Vladimir Slutzker has a message for Al Jazeera viewers: Watch out.
Donations can be made by phone or online to the Jewish Federation California Wildfire Relief Fund.
Despite Lukashenko's anti-Semitic slurs against the city of Bobruisk and Israel, the prevailing mood of the Jewish community is one of nearly surprising calm.
Souleiman Ghali was fine with giving blood. But he wasn’t fine with just anyone receiving it.
Saved from a war zone, enjoying life in the U.S.
Thousands unite against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Israel and its allies say they want Ahmadinejad arrested when he arrives in New York
Former hostage recalls his ordeal
Of all the questions attending the design of the Reform movement's new prayer book, none was more contentious than the decision to restore the prayer for the resurrection of the dead.
The tournament featured teams from Israel, the U.S., Canada and France.
The president of the Jewish Labor Committee applauded the decision by Germany’s largest labor federation to oppose a growing boycott campaign against Israel.
The following is a chronology of the top news items of the past year.
An anti-Semitic incident has led to chaos in amateur soccer in the German capital -- and there seems to be no resolution in sight.
The European Jewish Congress will continue to address the major strategic issues facing European Jewry including the Iranian threat, anti-Semitism and assimilation.
"Scholarship and research must remain fluent and borderless, unconstrained by geopolitical boundaries and ideological disagreements," writes Richard Herman.
Single largest group of immigrants to arrive in Israel this year.
Absorption Center near Sderot provides temporary housing for group of adults and children.
Steven Slivnick Jewish Community Relations Council Lewis Summer Intern “What we need is harmony and co existence between diverse populations, ” said Pakistani Foreign Minister, Khurshi Mahmud Kasuri to members of the Chicago Council
The upscale town of Concon, Chile, is more than 4,000 miles away from the southeast coast of Florida. Similarly, it is filled with condos, restaurants that face the sea, and citizens wearing expensive jewelry and tracksuits. Unlike Florida, its condos cascade down the mountains and its huge casino faces the sea instead of floating in it.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in recent weeks has gone further than any Israeli leader in reaching out to Syria, but Damascus seems in no hurry to respond.
“We’re trying to create an environment where Iranians will have second thoughts...,” Sen. Richard Durbin said during a special communal leadership briefing organized by the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC).
Edgar Asher Edgar Asher Henri Inzelberg draws a sample of fresh drinking water from one the plant's storage tanks where the desalinated water is stored. The French environmental services conglomerate, Veolia Environment, announced this week that
Every Jew has a responsibility to make sure that our non-Jewish friends have a clear grasp of the facts, and because our total numbers are so small we all have an added responsibility to be Jewish ambassadors.
Spearheaded by its Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago is taking action to combat the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, an effort of a magnitude rarely undertaken by local Jewish advocacy groups.
With the number of olim (immigrants to Israel) from many South American countries up 300 percent during the last four years, Ilan Architecter, shaliach aliyah (immigration emissary) of the Jewish Agency for Israel for Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador, has his work cut out for him.
We are taught in the Talmud that "whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world."
Today a life is at risk in a Bangladeshi court. The man’s name is Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. He is a journalist and editor of Blitz, an English-language weekly newspaper. He is on trial for sedition, punishable by death in Bangladesh.
If you are a fan of Central European literature on the lines of Joseph Roth, Stefan Zweig or Arthur Schnitzler, then Professor Jakob Allerhand was exactly the person you'd have wanted to meet in Vienna, mainly because he seemed to come from an age now consigned to novels such as theirs.
There is a classic Midrash from Ecclesiastes that describes the time when God created Adam. God led him around the Garden of Eden and said: "Look at My works! How beautiful and praiseworthy they are. Everything that I have created, I created for you. Take care not to damage and destroy My world, for if you destroy it, there is no one to repair it after you." (Midrash Kohelet Rabbah 7:13).
Freedom is a central and fundamental idea in the thought of both the ancient Greeks and Hebrews. But the way in which the two cultures understand and deal with freedom is very different.
If you get frustrated after a few hours on a crowded plane, or in a long airport security line, consider what it was like when your ancestors came to America. Next time you are visiting New York City, take a trip to Ellis Island to get an idea of what their ordeal was like.
