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After string of foiled plots, concerns mount over Iranian-backed terror

By Ron Kampeas · February 5, 2012

The question of whether Iran will respond to escalating international pressure over its nuclear program with terrorist attacks on overseas targets spurs concern, particularly to Jewish communities around the world. Read more »

A deaf Indonesian 12-year-old is not your typical bat mitzvah

By Jessica Leader · February 7, 2012

The bat mitzvah, Mei Lin Kallman, spent part of her Hebrew school education commuting every week from Jakarta to Singapore, where she studied at the local Chabad center. Read more »

Alexander Levin’s got a name (and cash), but does he have a plan?

By Uriel Heilman · January 30, 2012

The newest international Jewish organization has a name, the World Forum for Russian Jewry, but not much else -- yet. Read more »

For some schoolkids in southern Italy, meeting their first Jew on Holocaust Day

By Ruth Ellen Gruber · January 31, 2012

When columnist Ruth Ellen Gruber talks to Italian schoolchildren on International Holocaust Memorial Day about what it means to be a Jew, she gets a question about the murdered 6 million to which there is no good answer. Read more »

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Ukrainian Jewish leader Alexander Levin, left, and Ron Prosor, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, at the U.N. for the launching of the World Forum for Russian Jewry, Jan. 25, 2012. (Shahar Azran) U.S. Ambassador Norman L. Eisen, his wife Lindsay Kaplan and Alan Dershowitz and his family sing "Ma'oz Tzur" after lighting the menorah on first night of Chanukah. (Ruth Ellen Gruber) Jack Rosen, second from left, the chairman of the American Council for World Jewry, in Pyongyang with a top North Korean official and other members of an ACWJ delegation in this undated 2009 photo. ( Courtesy ACWJ) Republic of Korea soldiers stand guard at the border, keeping their eye on a North Korean soldier, July 13, 2011. Jack Rosen, a Jewish leader who visited North Korea twice in recent years, says the West should seize the transition after Kim Jong Il's death as an opportunity for outreach. (Alex Murphy via Creative Commons) Memorial candles in Prague for Vaclav Havel, who died this week. Jewish groups and leaders said the former Czech president was a symbol of freedom, Dec. 18, 2011. (David Short via Creative Commons) Members of Gibraltar's largely Sephardic, largely Orthodox community pick up children from the community's primary school, which is seeing record enrollment. (Alex Weisler) A derogatory exchange about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu between French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, and President Obama, shown during the U.N. General Assembly in New York, has sparked debate, Sept. 21, 2011. (Official White House photo by Samantha Appleton, via Creative Commons) French President Nicolas Sarkozy at a joint press conference with President Obama at the G20 meeting in Cannes, Nov. 3, 2011. At the meeting, Sarkozy told Obama he believed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a "liar." (Présidence de la République - P. Segrette/C. Alix) Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik, pictured July 24, 2011, opposes full Palestinian membership in the United Nations, a position that will likely frustrate the bid. (Andrew McMillan via Creative Commons) Ava Sarah Keyrallah was born in Paris on Oct. 31, 2011, the day the United Nations celebrated the 7 billionth child being born. (Courtesy Celine Abisror)

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  • Ukrainian Jewish leader Alexander Levin, left, and Ron Prosor, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, at the U.N. for the launching of the World Forum for Russian Jewry, Jan. 25, 2012.
  • U.S. Ambassador Norman L. Eisen, his wife Lindsay Kaplan and Alan Dershowitz and his family sing "Ma'oz Tzur" after lighting the menorah on first night of Chanukah.
  • Jack Rosen, second from left, the chairman of the American Council for World Jewry, in Pyongyang with a top North Korean official and other members of an ACWJ delegation in this undated 2009 photo.
  • Republic of Korea soldiers stand guard at the border, keeping their eye on a North Korean soldier, July 13, 2011. Jack Rosen, a Jewish leader who visited North Korea twice in recent years, says the West should seize the transition after Kim Jong Il's death as an opportunity for outreach.
  • Memorial candles in Prague for Vaclav Havel, who died this week. Jewish groups and leaders said the former Czech president was a symbol of freedom, Dec. 18, 2011.
  • Members of Gibraltar's largely Sephardic, largely Orthodox community pick up children from the community's primary school, which is seeing record enrollment.
  • A derogatory exchange about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu between French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, and President Obama, shown during the U.N. General Assembly in New York, has sparked debate, Sept. 21, 2011.
  • French President Nicolas Sarkozy at a joint press conference with President Obama at the G20 meeting in Cannes, Nov. 3, 2011. At the meeting, Sarkozy told Obama he believed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a "liar."
  • Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik, pictured July 24, 2011, opposes full Palestinian membership in the United Nations, a position that will likely frustrate the bid.
  • Ava Sarah Keyrallah was born in Paris on Oct. 31, 2011, the day the United Nations celebrated the 7 billionth child being born.
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