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• Anti-Semitism — still

  September 18, 2008 7:34pm

  The latest Pew Research Center survey of global attitudes on religion is out and the news is not good for Jews – or Muslims. Anti-Jewish attitudes are up in most major European countries, with the highest numbers in Spain, Poland and Russia. Only British attitudes have remained constant in recent years. But the same is…

• Pope Pius XII revisited

  September 17, 2008 8:15pm

  The debate over what Pope Pius XII did or didn’t do to save the Jews during the Nazi era continues to roil. The latest effort to cleanse the record of the pope who is on the path to sainthood came at a symposium in Rome this week where an American Jew led the charge. As…

• Parsing the Russian-Georgian conflict

  August 21, 2008 12:34am

  JTA’s Grant Slater, on the ground in Georgia, talks to JTA Senior Editor Lisa Hostein about the conflict, the Jewish rescue and relief effort and the debate over who’s responsible for the current mess. [audio:/images/archive/slater.mp3] Audio sound funny? Upgrade your Flash player. To subscribe to JTA’s Behind the News podcast, click here.

• Refugees worry about loved ones

  August 14, 2008 8:16pm

  The town of Gori in north Georgia has become a barometer for the high pressure, international conflict entering its sixth day with an uneasy and unheeded cease-fire. Refugees from the town, which is close to Georgia’s border with the breakaway region of South Ossetia, were thirsty for information from staff members of the American Jewish…

• The latest ‘Dreyfus affair?’

  August 4, 2008 7:37pm

  First the al-Dura affair, now a to-do about the firing of a French columnist for his purported anti-Semitic rantings. The French media has been filled with self-examination this summer, much of it related to Jewish affairs. In the al-Dura affair, the French press questioned its role after a court ruled in favor of a media…

• Goodbye Muddah

  July 2, 2008 8:05pm

  Lisa Hostein’s son Ezra (left), with his buddy Alec, boards the bus to summer camp. Anyone who’s ever sent a child off to overnight camp for the first time knows exactly how I’m feeling. Oddly, the pit in my stomach only developed on Day 2. I was a bit teary during Ezra’s bus sendoff to…

• A Philly fund-raiser throws support to Obama

  June 23, 2008 8:13pm

  Jewish attorneys raising money for Democratic presidential candidates is hardly news. Nor is it all that unusual for them to switch allegiances once their favorite is out of the game. Still, not so long ago, at least one of Hillary Clinton’s most ardent supporters and fund-raisers had some major questions about Barack Obama, particularly on…

• Abbas backs Russian peace confab

  April 17, 2008 9:00am

  Mahmoud Abbas endorsed holding a Middle East peace conference in Russia.

• Zahar: No peace without Hamas

  April 17, 2008 9:00am

  A Hamas founder said there will be no peace with Israel unless the terrorist organization is sitting at the negotiating table.

• Olmert hints Israel nixed Syrian nukes

  April 17, 2008 9:00am

  Ehud Olmert hinted strongly that the target of last year’s Israeli airstrike in Syria was a nuclear installation.