Section: Jewish Telegraphic Agency (USA)
Lviv mayor: France’s anti-Semitism problem bigger than Ukraine’s
Andriy Sadovyi (Wikimedia Commons) (JTA) — The mayor of the Ukrainian city of Lviv told participants at a Jewish learning conference that France has a bigger anti-Semitism problem than his country. Mayor Andriy Sadovyi, who recently emerged as one of Ukraine’s most popular politicians, made the assertion Thursday in Lviv, at the opening of...
Study analyzing ethnicity of Russia’s wealthiest condemned for singling out Jews
(JTA) — A member of Russia’s Human Rights Council condemned a news website that said that nearly a quarter of Russia’s top billionaires are Jews. Nikolai Svanidze of the council – a Kremlin-affiliated body with no executive powers –- made the condemnation last week against Lenta.ru, which analyzed according to faith and ethnicity the...
Ukrainian Jews satisfied with far-right’s crash in elections
(JTA) – Representatives of Ukraine’s Jewish communities said they were pleased with the stinging defeat of nationalist candidates in parliamentary elections. In Sunday’s parliamentary elections – the first since ouster of president Viktor Yanukovych in February in a revolution which triggered a territorial conflict with Russia – the...
Amid growing European anti-Semitism, new Jewish museum in Poland ‘reveals hope’
The core exhibit of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews was inaugurated in Warsaw, Oct. 28, 2014. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90) WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — In a Europe wracked by fears of rising anti-Semitism, and in a country whose Jews were all but annihilated in the Holocaust, a dazzling new “museum of life” celebrates the Jewish past and...
Iran claims to arrest spies near nuclear plant
(JTA) — Iran has arrested several suspected foreign spies in the southern province of Bushehr, home to the country’s first nuclear power plant. Fars News Service, the country’s semi-official news agency, reported Tuesday on the arrests but did not provide any further details. Iranian media reported that the country’s...
Israeli-American reality tv star wins Jewish Moscow beauty pageant
(JTA) – Linor Shefer, an Israeli-American reality television star who was born in Ukraine, won Moscow’s first “Miss Jewish Star” beauty pageant. Shefer, a former contender in the Israeli version of the reality television show “Big Brother,” beat 19 other contestants to become Miss Jewish Star 2014 on Sunday in Moscow’s Metropol Hotel,...
Facebook completes purchase of WhatsApp
(JTA) — Facebook completed its purchase of the the mobile messaging service WhatsApp for nearly $22 billion in cash and stock. The transaction was completed on Monday, Facebook paid about $ 2 billion more than when the deal was announced in February due to a rise in the price of Facebook shares. Facebook named WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum...
Ralph Goldman, former JDC head and a builder of Israel, dies at 100
Then-Israeli President Shimon Peres, standing, greets Ralph Goldman at a salute for the former American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee leader’s 100th birthday in 2014. (Courtesy JDC) JERUSALEM (JTA) — Ralph Goldman, who as a young man helped shepherd the State of Israel into existence and later devoted his professional life to bringing...
Ralph Goldman, ex-JDC head and builder of Israel, dies at 100
(JTA) — Ralph Goldman, a former leader of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and a central figure in Israel’s establishment, has died at the age of 100. Goldman, who served under David Ben-Gurion as Israel’s envoy to the United States, died Tuesday in Jerusalem, where he had lived for several decades. Goldman first...
IFCJ announces project to bring olim from FSU, countries in crisis
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has established a project to bring more new immigrants to Israel from former Soviet Union and other countries in crisis. The project will be led by former director general of Aliyah and Absorption at the Jewish Agency, Eli Cohen, the Fellowship announced on Monday. Cohen has...
