Bagels were granted equal status with soda bread in Ireland following a government decision to reclassify the traditionally Jewish favorite as ordinary bread for the purposes of taxation.
A popular candidate for the Irish presidency dropped out in the wake of revelations that he had sought clemency for an Israeli lover convicted of statutory rape.
Today we examine a defunct feature of the JTA Jewish Daily Bulletin, now called the JTA Daily Briefing. The "Digest of Public Opinion on Jewish Matters" was a roundup of foreign newspapers’ mention of Jewish events (akin to the editors’ picks in the present iteration of the Daily Briefing). Eighty-four years ago, the June 2, 1927 […]