Croatia’s government is providing the funds for the preliminary stage of construction of a Jewish center and synagogue that will rise from the ashes of a Zagreb synagogue that was destroyed during World War II.
The United States is holding an Israeli businessman on charges that he tried to smuggle missile parts into the United States without declaring their proper value and contents to U.S. Customs inspectors. The businessman intended to ship the parts to China,
Checkers, a board game that is mostly the domain of the young in North America has for decades been competitive sport across the former Soviet Union, and Markiel “Marik” Fazilov, a Bukharan Jew, is a grandmaster. He has won two world champions
