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March 26, 2016
4:48 am

US Senator Ted Cruz as he embraces his wife, Heidi, after announcing his candidacy for the Republican nomination to run for US president at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, on March 23, 2015. (AFP/Paul J. Richards, File)

Cruz angrily denies adultery allegations, blames Trump

Republican candidate says ‘smear campaign’ against him and his wife was orchestrated by billionaire businessman and his ‘henchman’

By AFP

March 26, 2016
4:17 am

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses a press conference following his victory in the Florida state primary in West Palm Beach, Florida, on March 15, 2016. (AFP/Rhona Wise)

Women: The Achilles’ heel that could doom Trump

39% percent of female Republican voters have an unfavorable opinion of billionaire businessman

By Brigitte DUSSEAU

March 26, 2016
3:41 am

A jihadist woman wielding a Kalashnikov rifle at a training camp near Aleppo, Syria. (screen capture: YouTube)

French Jew dresses as jihadist for Purim

Man arrives at synagogue wearing long North African robes, carrying a fake Kalashnikov and crying ‘Allahu akbar’

By AFP

March 26, 2016
2:24 am

Stray dogs roam the Babi Yar monument on March 14, 2016 in Kiev, where Nazis and local collaborators murdered 30,000 Jews in 1941. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Why one of the Holocaust’s worst massacres is marked only by charred menorah

Since 2001, Jewish groups have tried but failed to win support to upgrade memorial site at Babi Yar, where Nazis and collaborators murdered 50,000 Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

March 25, 2016
11:52 pm

Holocaust survivor and tailor Joseph Sher speaking in 2011. Sher died in New Orleans on March 24, 2016, at the age of 100. (screen capture: Vimeo)

Joseph Sher, Holocaust survivor and tailor to stars, dies at 100

Polish-born New Orleans resident, who lost his parents and sisters to the Nazis, headed local community of survivors

By JTA

March 25, 2016
11:02 pm

A Purim effigy that appeared to be of an African-American man drew widespread condemnation in Spring Valley, New York, March 24, 2016. (Screen capture: News 12)

Black-faced Purim effigy in NY county draws condemnation

Local Jewish Federation, board of rabbis issue joint statement decrying offensive ‘hanging of Haman’ practice

By JTA

March 25, 2016
8:24 pm

Special police forces stand guard outside the Council Chamber of Brussels on March 24, 2016, during investigations into the Paris and Brussels terror attacks. (AFP/Kenzo Tribouillard)

Top Brussels rabbi: Belgian authorities know nothing about security

Menachem Hadad says soldiers deployed outside Jewish institutions told him they had no bullets in their rifles

By JTA

March 25, 2016
8:18 pm

Amid reports of repeated security failures, many Belgian Jews feel their government is leaving them vulnerable. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Can Belgium protect its Jews? A community has its doubts

Many feel that their government is less competent in defending civilians, Jews and otherwise, than its neighbors, including France

By Cnaan Liphshiz

March 25, 2016
6:20 pm

The building of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in Jerusalem. (Flash90)

75% of Israelis want divorce out of rabbinate’s hands

Among secular respondents, 99% in new poll want divorce handled by secular courts

By JTA

March 25, 2016
6:15 pm

French President Francois Hollande (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pose for photographers at the Elysee Palace, Paris, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. (AP/Thibault Camus)

Netanyahu denies receiving perks from French-Jewish alleged fraudster

Arnaud Mimran reported to have donated funds to Likud, allowed PM to use Paris apartment; ‘ridiculous and false,’ says PMO

By JTA

March 25, 2016
5:53 pm

Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman (photo courtesy: Zack Snyder/Warner Bros)

With ‘unworldly, statuesque’ Gal Gadot, Wonder Woman finally gets her big screen due

She might not get top billing in ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,’ but the female superhero steals the show from her caped counterparts

By Lindsey Bahr

March 25, 2016
4:34 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds an 500 hundred-year-old Torah scroll as he poses for a picture with some of the Yemenite Jews who were brought to Israel as part of a secret rescue operation, at the Knesset on March 21, 2016. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Operation to rescue Yemeni Jews was 2 years in the making, son says

From the US, Manny Dahari helped orchestrate his family’s airlift to Israel; ‘I’m just so relieved right now. I know that they’re safe,’ he says

By Judah Ari Gross

March 25, 2016
10:40 am

Israeli children dressed up in costumes in downtown Jerusalem, during the Jewish holiday of Purim when it is customary to dress up, March 24, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Tel Aviv comes to a halt for Purim festival

100,000 expected at metropolis’s celebration of Jewish holiday; President Rivlin, PM Netanyahu distribute traditional food baskets

By Times of Israel staff

March 25, 2016
9:46 am

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders at a campaign rally in Miami, Florida, March 8, 2016 (AP/Alan Diaz)

Sanders fighting perceptions he can’t overcome Clinton edge

Vermont’s Jewish senator has challenged Clinton on income inequality and money in politics, and won a dozen states, but remains a long shot

By Ken Thomas

March 25, 2016
8:36 am

Henry Cavill, left, as Clark Kent, and Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor in “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice.” (Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures/DC Comics)

‘Batman v. Superman’: Jesse Eisenberg on Lex Luthor’s Jewish qualities

When you get past his ‘rageful and envious and increasingly dark’ side, the DC comics supervillain has ‘a very strong moral code and he questions things,’ says actor

By Curt Schleier

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