Child Holocaust survivors get first payment from new Claims Conference Fund
NEW YORK (JTA) – The Claims Conference sent out payments totaling about $60 million in a single day last week – the first of an…
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President Barack Obama: I have same high expectations of Israel as I do of U.S.
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) – President Barack Obama has a message for American Jews: I don’t shy away from disagreeing with Israel publicly, because…
1 in 6 American Jews are new to Judaism – and 9 other new Pew findings
By Uriel Heilman NEW YORK (JTA) – The Pew Research Center’s newly released 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study offers a trove of data on American…
For Netanyahu and Obama, mistrust is personal — and cynical
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — Obama administration officials have long contended that the friction between the U.S. president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
Minister Uppal to join the Fight against anti-Semitism on the International Stage
May 11, 2015—Ottawa— Canada will join the international community in developing a global plan to combat anti-Semitism and other forms of racial and ethnic hatred….