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• UN Watch to bestow Kasparov with human rights accolade

  April 8, 2013 2:50pm

  Garry Kasparov, a former Russian chess grandmaster who became a political activist, will receive a human rights award from UN Watch.

• Kosher scandals like Doheny are rare, but not unheard of

  April 4, 2013 8:59pm

  Kosher industry insiders say scandals like the one that rocked the Los Angeles Jewish community before Passover don’t happen often. But when they do, the trust of a whole community is shaken. JTA’s Gil Shefler reports.

• Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters pulls out of New York Y event

  April 4, 2013 8:35pm

  Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, who supports the boycott movement against Israel, pulled out of a speaking engagement at the 92nd Street Y in New York.

• ADL imagines a better world in viral video

  April 4, 2013 7:31pm

  Imagine a world where Anne Frank, the teenage diarist murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust, lived to win the Nobel Prize for her 12th novel; where Martin Luther King, the slain civil rights activist, was still around to lead immigration reform and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was not killed by the bullets of…

• U.C. Riverside student govt. rescinds Israel divestment resolution

  April 4, 2013 7:01pm

  The student government of the University of California, Riverside, rescinded a decision to divest from Israel.

• Scandal-plagued kosher market in L.A. is sold

  April 4, 2013 12:45pm

  L.A. businessman Shlomo Rechnitz bought a kosher supermarket in Los Angeles that is suspected of mislabeling its meat.

• In Florida, Venezuelan Jewish expats set down new roots

  March 24, 2013 7:08pm

  During the reign of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, thousands of Jews fled abroad — many of them to the greater Miami area. JTA’s Gil Shefler reports.

• Pink Floyd’s Waters takes some credit for Wonder’s decision to skip FIDF event

  March 21, 2013 4:13pm

  Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters took partial credit for Stevie Wonder’s decision to pull out of performing at a Friends of Israel Defense Forces event.

• Israeli TV broadcasts Obama speech in Jerusalem live

  March 21, 2013 2:45pm

  President Barack Obama is delivering the keynote speech of his visit to the Jewish State. The White House’s Website, and Israel’s Ch. 2 and Ch. 10, are broadcasting the speech live. For the White House’s live stream click here. For Ch. 2’s live stream click here.  For Ch. 10’s live stream click here.

• ‘Spider-Man’ movie changes filming schedule due to Passover

  March 21, 2013 10:43am

  The filming schedule of “The Amazing Spider Man 2” was changed in response to a request made by a haredi Orthodox community in Brooklyn.