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• Hooting for change in the Jewish world

  December 23, 2003 10:00am

  A group of women in owl costumes dished out "anti-awards" to several major Jewish organizations for their "sins," such as sexism and homophobia.

• David Bar-Illan dead at 73

  November 5, 2003 10:00am

  David Bar-Illan, who died at 73, was a concert pianist and a journalist whose staunchly pro-Israel columns in the early 1990s paved the way for today´s critiques of anti-Israel bias in the media.

• Marathon a family affair

  November 4, 2003 10:00am

  An Israeli father-daughter team ran the New York City marathon in memory of their late wife and mother.

• Film fest focuses on Israelis, Palestinians

  June 12, 2003 9:00am

  Several films on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are showing at this year’s Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in New York. A selection of films from the festival will also travel to 35 cities in the United States, beginning in September.

• AJCongress official dies

  May 22, 2003 9:00am

  Rabbi David Clayman, one of the leading American Jewish advocates in Israel, died overnight Thursday from cancer at the age of 69.

• John Kayston dies, worked at JTA for 50 years

  May 1, 2003 9:00am

  John Kayston, a refugee from Hitler’s Germany who worked his way up at JTA from mail clerk to executive vice president, died of a heart attack at age 87. Kayston was able to use his German language skills and journalistic ingenuity to shed light on

• Mitchell Danow, JTA foreign editor, dies

  March 25, 2003 10:00am

  Longtime JTA foreign editor Mitchell Danow, who oversaw the news agency’s foreign copy and news briefs, died of a heart attack at age 55. Danow, a veteran journalist but also a novelist, union representative and former teacher, had a passion for the

• Amen’ director no stranger to controversy

  February 13, 2003 10:00am

  Director Constantin Costa-Gavras’ latest film may be about history, but he made it with an eye to the present.

• New accord on World War II criminals

  January 8, 2003 10:00am

  An agreement between the U.S. government’s Nazi-hunting unit and an unnamed European government could lead to more prosecutions of suspected Nazi-era war criminals living in the United States and help the Justice Department identify previously unkno

• Abba Eban remembered

  November 17, 2002 10:00am

  Abba Eban, who died at the age of 87, served Israel for more than four decades and was a “founding father of Israeli diplomacy.”