Why most Jews in Hong Kong are not involved with the protests
by Josefin Dolsten (JTA) — Since early June, protesters in Hong Kong have been gathering multiple times a week to fight what they see as…
International
New left-wing alliance including Ehud Barak aims to unseat Netanyahu in Israel’s elections
BY MARCY OSTER, JERUSALEM (JTA) — A new left-wing alliance including former Prime Minister Ehud Barak has formed to take on Benjamin Netanyahu and the…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg recalls a senator predicting her death in 2009. He died 2 years ago.
BY RON KAMPEAS, WASHINGTON (JTA) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wants you to know she is “very much alive,” but that one of…
A Jewish family sold this Kandinsky painting to survive the Nazis. Amsterdam is keeping it anyway.
by Cnaan Liphshiz AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Following a protracted legal fight, the family of Irma Klein last year finally got Dutch restitution officials to recognize that the…
The son of Holocaust hero Chiune Sugihara is setting the record straight about his father’s story
by Cnaan Liphshiz (JTA) — After decades of relative obscurity, the tale of the Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara has become one of the best-known Holocaust rescue…