Claims Conference secures major increase in aid to survivors through 2018
(JTA) — The Claims Conference, which manages aid to Holocaust survivors, has negotiated a budget increase through 2018, including the largest one-time increase in homecare…
International
op/ed: How Elie Wiesel inspired the Free Soviet Jewry movement
By Glenn Richter (JTA) — On my bookshelves there are two rows of volumes on the Soviet Jewry movement. Squeezed in among the tomes is…
Elie Wiesel gave the Holocaust a face and the world a conscience
By Sarah Wildman WASHINGTON (JTA) — Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate who became a leading icon of Holocaust remembrance and a global…
Dozens killed and hundreds injured in Instanbul airport terror attack
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli President Reuven Rivlin sent a letter of condolence to his Turkish counterpart in the aftermath of the terror attack at an…
Blog: Why not Al Franken? Some think the senator and former comic could be Hillary’s VP
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — Last week Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) said that if Hillary Clinton asked him to be her running mate, he’d take…