November 11, 2013
4:27 am

Residents cover their nose from the smell of dead bodies in Tacloban city, Leyte province central Philippines on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms on record, slammed into six central Philippine provinces Friday leaving a wide swath of destruction and hundreds of people dead. (Photo credit: AP/Bullit Marquez)

IDF sends assessment team to typhoon-struck Philippines

Experts in search, rescue and medical services set out to examine disaster scene; MDA considering similar move

By AP and Times of Israel staff

October 15, 2013
6:58 pm

Nela Hasic, pictured here with a Race for the Cure poster, returned from Israel to her native Sarajevo and is leading the fight for breast cancer awareness there. (photo credit: Courtesy of JDC)

Where talking about breast cancer is still taboo

Helping Bosnian women race for the cure is a marathon journey for Jewish ex-Israeli Nela Hasic

By Renee Ghert-Zand

September 14, 2013
9:00 pm

Rabbi Ovadia Isakov recovering in an Israeli hospital after being shot outside his home in Derbent. (photo credit: YouTube/Shneor Schiff )

Rabbi’s shooting shakes Russian community’s confidence

In this lawless corner of the Russian Caucasus, about 2,000 Jews live among a predominantly Muslim population, but maybe not for long

By Cnaan Liphshiz

September 13, 2013
10:39 pm

The National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria (photo credit: Apostoloff/Wikimedia Commons/File)

Bulgaria to launch first large Jewish festival

Cultural fair will feature Jewish music, cinema, literature and learning in 18 sukkah-shaped stalls

By JTA

August 17, 2013
7:17 pm

Barbi Paszternak-Szendy and Andras Paszternak tied the knot at a Central European summer camp intended to strengthen Jewish kids' understanding of their heritage. (Marton Karsai via JTA)

Jewlyweds! Former campers marry where they met

Slovak-Hungarian couple finds true love at summer sleepaway site that brought them together

By Debra Rubin

July 14, 2013
10:46 pm

Ethiopian women participating in a prayer service outside Jerusalem in 2011. (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Comptroller to probe Ethiopian birth control claims

Knesset committee unable to determine whether officials coerced immigrants to receive Depo-Provera injections

By Asher Zeiger

July 3, 2013
7:24 pm

A Hyena stalks wilderbeasts in the Serengeti (photo credit: Haim Shohat/Flash90)

Israel seeks to bring in Ethiopian mauled by hyena

Abdul Razek, 8, lost an ear and suffered other severe injuries after the animal attacked his village, killing five

July 1, 2013
7:28 pm

Ethiopian immigrants arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport in December 2011. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Ethiopians in Israel have fewer children, study finds

But Knesset investigation can’t confirm claims that women were given contraceptives without consent

June 10, 2013
4:59 am

Rose Goteiner believes that her sister, Ruth Konigsberg, is shown in the middle of the bottom row of this 1946 photograph taken in Amsterdam. (photo credit: Courtesy American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Global Archives/JTA)

Photo brings desperate hope for a Holocaust miracle

Is Ruth Konigstein the little girl in a 1946 photograph? Her big sister Rose is certain she is. So where is Ruth today?

By Hillel Kuttler

June 10, 2013
3:41 am

Budapest eyes ‘kosh’ sandwich record

Thousands to attend city’s Judafest, view construction of 7-foot snack

May 16, 2013
10:20 am

Stanley Abramowitz, longtime JDC relief worker, dies at 93

Was working in the former Soviet Union until last year

March 18, 2013
6:27 pm

Hungary honors Jewish academic, accused anti-Semites

Awards to controversial newscaster and archaeologist seen as gesture to nation’s ascendant far-right

March 8, 2013
6:08 am

Participants of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's (JDC) Second International Women's Leadership Workshop in Israel this week (photo credit: Ofir Ben Natan, JDC Israel)

Can women ‘have it all’?

In Israel, 17 international development leaders explore what it means, in real life, to be a woman and a social leader

By Michal Shmulovich

February 19, 2013
9:57 am

An Ethiopian Israeli, who asked not to be identified, is seen during an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem on February 4, 2012 (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Ethiopian birth control revelations ignite debate

Government accused of deliberate effort to curb Ethiopian birth rate, but many see only negligence

By Tia Goldenberg

January 29, 2013
11:17 pm

Newly arrived Ethiopian immigrants at Ben Gurion Airport in December 2011 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Israel changes birth-control policy for Ethiopian immigrants

Amid accusations of racism, Health Ministry instructs HMOs not to automatically renew prescriptions for Depo-Provera