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David Bar-Illan dead at 73
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. Read more »
Marathon a family affair
An Israeli father-daughter team ran the New York City marathon in memory of their late wife and mother. Read more »
Film fest focuses on Israelis, Palestinians
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. Read more »
AJCongress official dies
Rabbi David Clayman, one of the leading American Jewish advocates in Israel, died overnight Thursday from cancer at the age of 69. Read more »
John Kayston dies, worked at JTA for 50 years
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 Read more »
Mitchell Danow, JTA foreign editor, dies
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 Read more »
Amen’ director no stranger to controversy
Director Constantin Costa-Gavras' latest film may be about history, but he made it with an eye to the present. Read more »
New accord on World War II criminals
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 Read more »
Abba Eban remembered
Abba Eban, who died at the age of 87, served Israel for more than four decades and was a “founding father of Israeli diplomacy.” Read more »
New Sandy Koufax bio
“Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy,” isn’t a typical biography of the great Dodger pitcher. In addition to charting his meteoric rise in baseball, author Jane Leavy also examines the way that America reacted to a Jewish sports star. Read more »
RSS Feed Breaking News
Updated 02/09/12 @ 05:54PM EST
- A poll showed that nearly half of likely voters believed the United States should use military force to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
- Rabbi Gunther Plaut, a major figure in Reform Judaism, died in Toronto.
- The application for a proposed Hebrew-language charter school was accepted by the District of Columbia Public Charter School board.
- A truck driving calves from Eilat to the Golan Heights was hijacked into the West Bank.
- U.S. Rep. Howard Berman introduced legislation that would allow eligible Israeli nationals to receive non-immigrant investor visas in the United States.
- Poll: Half of U.S. voters back strike on nuclear Iran
- Reform leader Rabbi Gunther Plaut dies
- D.C. Hebrew-language charter school accepted for review
- Op-Ed: Kick the reaction addiction on campus
- Berman moves to grant investor visas to Israelis
- Holy cow! Calves hijacked into Palestinian territory
- Report: Israeli journalist also works for prime minister
- Larry Greenfield tapped to lead JINSA
