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• Nearly 70 years after liberation, Holocaust memorials continue to proliferate

  June 11, 2013 9:54am

  Hardly an unusual sight in big cities, Holocaust museums and memorials are now cropping up in more out-of-the-way places like Terre Haute, Ind. and Alexandria, La.

• Jewish Scouts say lifting of ban on gays is ‘momentous’

  May 24, 2013 10:25am

  Jewish Scouting leaders said they were “overjoyed” after the Boy Scouts of America passed a resolution lifting a ban on gay youth.

• Amnesty accuses Israel, Hamas of human rights violations

  May 23, 2013 2:28pm

  Israel and Hamas violated international humanitarian law during their round of violence in November, Amnesty International said in its annual report.

• Adelsons donate another $40 million to Birthright

  May 23, 2013 10:24am

  Casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, donated another $40 million to the Birthright Israel Foundation.

• Hand puppet’s Holocaust joke on TV riles Chilean Jews

  May 23, 2013 10:02am

  A Holocaust joke made on national television by comedian Elias Escobedo while voicing a hand puppet has the Jewish community of Chile considering a lawsuit.

• Rabbis to Boy Scouts: Lift ban on gay members

  May 22, 2013 12:25pm

  More than 500 rabbis and cantors urged the Boy Scouts of America to drop its ban on homosexual members when the youth group’s National Council convenes in Dallas this week.

• N.J. keeping info on haredi yeshiva funding under wraps

  May 22, 2013 10:04am

  New Jersey officials refused a newspaper’s request to release information on the state’s decision to fund two religious institutions, including a haredi Orthodox yeshiva in Lakewood.

• Court rejects petition to split Davidson foundation

  May 21, 2013 8:00pm

  A Michigan court dismissed a petition to split the $1 billion foundation of the late Jewish businessman William Davidson in half.

• Muslim fashionistas draw global audience

  May 21, 2013 11:18am

  Religious Jews aren’t the only ones reconciling ancient sartorial traditions with modern fashions, as JTA reported earlier this month. So are some Muslims.

• Stanley Abramowitz, longtime JDC relief worker, dies at 93

  May 14, 2013 4:33am

  Stanley Abramowitz, who worked for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for 65 years and was involved in many of its major operations, has died at 93.