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September 14, 2012
10:11 am

Couple who hid Jewish baby honored by Yad Vashem in New Zealand

The Hakkens — the first Kiwi citizens to receive the honor — hid 2-year-old Elli Mantegari in their Amsterdam house in 1942 for two years

September 14, 2012
10:07 am

New bill would press countries harboring war criminals

Under the War Crimes Accountability Act of 2012, it would be illegal to conduct defense sales with any country that refuses to deport, prosecute or enforce an arrest warrant against war criminals, past and present

September 14, 2012
4:47 am

Obama offers wishes for a sweet New Year

Apple (pie) and honey ‘Michelle and I wish you… L’Shanah Tovah,’ US president says in High Holiday message

September 14, 2012
12:15 am

Franciszek Herzog holds a photograph of his father, also named Franciszek Herzog, in Hebron, Conn. Herzog's father and uncle both died in the Katyn Forest massacres. (photo credit: AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Newly declassified memos show US hushed up 1940 Soviet mass murder

It was the Soviets, not the Nazis, who killed 22,000 Poles with shots to the back of the head in or near the Katyn forest. Documents confirm suspicion Roosevelt kept silent so as not to anger Stalin

September 13, 2012
10:57 pm

Jews perform a religious circumcision. (illustrative photo: Serge Attal/Flash90)

NYC to require consent for circumcision suction ritual

Defenders of ‘metzitzah b’peh’ vow to continue with controversial practice

By JTA and AP

September 13, 2012
6:45 pm

Berlin residents wear kippot in solidarity with a local rabbi who was brutally attacked in August (photo credit: AP/Michael Gottschalk)

German police to investigate Jewish officer who wore kippa while in uniform

Haifa-born Tuvia Schlesinger, who has been serving in the Berlin police for 32 years, said to have violated the force’s neutrality rules in showing solidarity with the local Jewish community

By Raphael Ahren

September 13, 2012
5:46 pm

Author Michael Chabon in New York in 2010. (photo credit: AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Chabon back in style with ‘Telegraph Avenue’

In its sheer accumulation of observation and detail, Chabon’s new novel takes on its own kind of epic momentum

By Patrick Condon

September 13, 2012
11:39 am

This image, released by the U.S. Department of Justice, shows a World War II-era SS identity card from the Trawniki training camp alleged to have belonged to John Demjanjuk. (photo credit: AP Photo/Department of Justice)

Court rejects appeal for Demjanjuk citizenship

The defense contends the US government withheld potentially helpful material

September 13, 2012
11:21 am

European Commission chief warns of rise in anti-Semitism

Jose Manuel Barroso: ‘At a very difficult time when some people are tempted to reconnect with old demons — populism, racism and anti-Semitism — we need more than ever to uphold our common ideals’

September 13, 2012
9:45 am

Kevin Youkilis will reportedly join the New York Yankees. (CC BY Joe Bielawa/WIkipedia)

Baseball game time moved to accommodate Yom Kippur

‘I guess that means I can play,’ says Jewish White Sox player

September 13, 2012
6:26 am

In this Honey Chicken recipe, the olive oil, soy sauce, garlic and pepper temper the honey perfectly. (photo credit: Stuart Schnee/JTA)

Sign of the times

Menu inspired by ‘simanim’ brings meaning to Rosh Hashanah meal on American celebrity chef’s first New Year in Israel since making aliya

By Jamie Geller

September 13, 2012
4:56 am

Alan Gross, shown in 2009 (left) and 2012 (photo credit: AP/Courtesy of Peter Kahn)

Cuba ready to negotiate over jailed Jewish American contractor

Hints of a prisoner exchange in return for Alan Gross who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for being in possession of communication equipment

September 13, 2012
4:03 am

Senator Barbara Boxer (photo credit: courtesy)

Jewish senator lashes out at Netanyahu for attacking Obama on Iran

Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) says she’s deeply disappointed over remarks that call into question US support for Israel

September 13, 2012
1:35 am

Libyans celebrate in Martyrs' Square in Tripoli after voting in the first democratic election in decades in July (photo credit: AP/Abdel Magid Al Fergany)

Eleven years after 9/11, two-thirds of US travel warnings relate to the Muslim world

Of 32 standing State Department travel warnings, 22 are for Muslim-majority countries, with Libya the subject of the latest alert

By Haviv Rettig Gur

September 12, 2012
11:19 pm

A tent city of visitors to Uman for Rosh Hashanah last year. (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

What happens in Uman stays in Uman

With 25,000 Breslaver Chasidim coming to the Ukrainian town for Rosh Hashanah, the locals brace themselves for less-than-religious behavior — along with the influx of some 200 female sex workers

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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