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A view of the border between Lebanon, left, and Israel near the village of Kfar Kila, Feb. 7, 2018.

Netanyahu: Hezbollah tunnels a ‘concrete threat’

JERUSALEM (JTA) – Hezbollah is building tunnels “with direct support and funding from Iran” in an effort to capture northern Israel’s Galilee region, Prime Minister … more

12/6/18

Former Nazi guard goes on trial

JTA – A former Nazi SS guard, now 94, went on trial Nov. 6 for being complicit in the mass murders of several hundred prisoners at the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp. Johann Rehbogen, … more

11/8/18

Postcard from Montreal: Lots of great eating here

MONTREAL – We are in the celebrated Schwartz’s Charcuterie Hebraique de Montréal, or Montreal Hebrew Delicatessen, renowned for its smoked meat sandwiches. You will love this … more

M. CHARLES BAKST | 9/7/18

U.S. President Donald Trump, left, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

The Jewish year in review: #MeToo, the embassy move and a growing gap between Israel and the Diaspora

JTA – For North American Jews, the Jewish year 5778 began with tensions between Israel and the Diaspora over egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall and ended with more tension over a … more

Ben Harris | 9/7/18

The Jewish year in review

JTA – For North American Jews, the Jewish year 5778 began with tensions between Israel and the Diaspora over egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall and ended with more tension over a … more

BEN HARRIS | 8/23/18

Australian Jewish leaders criticize Sky News for interview with far-right racist

SYDNEY (JTA) – The Executive Council of Australian Jewry criticized Sky News Australia for airing an interview with a far-right racist who once advocated for the display of images of … more

8/9/18

A Shabbat on the Italian coast

FORTE DEI MARMI, ITALY – Shabbat shalom from this gorgeous beach town on the Tuscan coast near Pisa and Carrara. Yes, in this upscale resort in this heavily Catholic country, … more

M. CHARLES BAKST | 8/9/18

Rome’s Jewish Quarter: Seared by the Holocaust, still much alive

ROME, ITALY – Micol Piazza, our guide on a tour of the historic Jewish quarter here, is full of emotion as she speaks, and I tremble as I listen to her recount the horror of the German roundup of some 1,000 Roman Jews on Oct. 16, 1943. Most of them lived on these few blocks, in what for centuries had been a ghetto. Piazza says of the Nazis, “With the help of the Italian police, they had the names of the Jews. They were right here. It was Shabbat. Sukkot. People were sleeping in their homes.’’ more

M. CHARLES BAKST | 8/9/18

This synagogue in Turku is one of the two in Finland.

Ahead of the Trump-Putin summit, 5 things you probably didn't know about Finland and the Jews

JTA – Next week’s summit meeting between President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Finland recasts the Scandinavian nation in a role it had not occupied in … more

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ | 7/13/18

More women are in charge of Jewish groups in the former Soviet Union

JTA – For a man to gallantly open a door for a female stranger is neither common nor universally appreciated in Ukraine, where gender salary gaps used to be illegal and female tank crews fought … more

Cnaan Liphshiz | 3/14/18