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AMSTERDAM, Jan. 12 (JTA) — A record number of visitors toured the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam last year. More than 822,000 people visited the house where the teen-age diarist and her family hid from the Nazis, a 16 percent increase over 1997, according to officials at the Anne Frank Foundation. The officials attributed the […]

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (JTA) — A New York woman who sued the Israeli airline El Al over a preflight body search cannot collect damages, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled. In an 8-1 decision Tuesday, the justices said a 1929 international treaty on air travel precludes passengers from invoking domestic U.S. law to sue airlines […]

NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (JTA) — A Polish priest who has been suspended in the past for repeated anti-Semitic statements is in hot water once again. Father Henryk Jankowski was criticized by several bishops for selling anti-Semitic publications at his parish church. Jankowski reportedly moved the bookstand from the church to his residence next door […]

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