April 12, 2014
5:03 am

In this photo taken Monday, March 24, 2014, a Rwandan student walks in the grounds of the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village near Rwamagana, in Rwanda. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Using Israeli model, Rwanda orphans’ school teaches unity post-genocide

As African state marks 20th anniversary of ethnic slaughter, JDC-assisted youth village for conflict-scarred children thrives

By Jason Straziuso

March 19, 2014
3:57 am

Gisela Dollinger, right, with family (photo credit: courtesy Carole Vogel)

Refugee who rescued husband from Dachau dies at 111

Gisela Kohn Dollinger fled Austria for China after Kristallnacht, eventually settling in New York City in 1950

By Julie Wiener

March 13, 2014
10:44 pm

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein (back row in blue shirt flanked by masked security guards), founder and president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, on a visit to a Kiev school during a Ukraine fact-finding mission. (Eva Geller)

Ukraine communities feel ‘abandoned’ by world Jewry

On fact-finding mission to Kiev, Donetsk and Odessa, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein finds a grim picture of rising costs and growing need

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

March 9, 2014
7:12 pm

Illustrative photo of Jewish men inside a synagogue in Kiev (photo credit: Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

Ukrainian Jews seek to emigrate amid uncertainty

From the web Jewish Agency sees a sharp rise in Aliyah inquiries as tension between Kyiv and Moscow mounts, the Forward reports

March 6, 2014
11:04 pm

A tent with the symbol and the name of the Ukrainian Communist party are seen as people discuss the situation at a central square in Simferopol, Ukraine, on Wednesday, March 5, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Sergei Grits)

Crimean Jews surprised by new referendum to join Russia

As unidentified gunmen patrol the peninsula, some Jews increasingly feel as if they’re ‘sitting on explosives’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

February 24, 2014
1:26 am

Protesters manning a barricade in downtown Kiev last month (photo credit: courtesy of JDC)

Volunteers brave ‘war zone’ to aid elderly Jews in Kiev

Old and infirm in area of Independence Square, heart of Ukraine uprising, receive visits and care packages to the sound of sniper fire

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

January 31, 2014
2:03 am

A subtle Star of David design from the RISK for JOINT collection (Courtesy of RISK Made in Warsaw)

Polish fashion entrepreneur makes being Jewish sexy

Antonina Samecka’s grandmother told her to remove her Star of David pendant when she came home to Warsaw from an Israel trip. She didn’t. Now she plasters them all over her trendy RISK OY designs

By Renee Ghert-Zand

December 12, 2013
11:54 pm

US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman testifies on Capitol Hill before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Oct. 3, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Molly Riley)

US’s top Iran negotiator: Sanctions relief ‘envisioned’ at $6-7 billion

In Senate testimony, Wendy Sherman uses conditional language on interim deal, is cautious over goal of final accord on rogue nuclear program

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

December 12, 2013
2:16 am

Holocaust survivors Joe Chaba, 85, and his wife, Helen, 89, sit together on the rooftop of the Selfhelp Home retirement community, in Chicago (photo credit: AP/M. Spencer Green/File)

Biden announces effort to help Holocaust survivors

US administration plans to help non-profits provide needed services, and to use diplomacy to resolve Nazi-era property claims

By AP

November 12, 2013
5:43 pm

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)

Israeli team in Philippines to assess typhoon damage

Doctors, search and rescue experts to set up field hospital to treat wounded

By JTA

November 11, 2013
4:27 am

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

Topic: JDC American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Using Israeli model, Rwanda orphans’ school teaches unity post-genocide

As African state marks 20th anniversary of ethnic slaughter, JDC-assisted youth village for conflict-scarred children thrives

Refugee who rescued husband from Dachau dies at 111

Gisela Kohn Dollinger fled Austria for China after Kristallnacht, eventually settling in New York City in 1950

Ukraine communities feel ‘abandoned’ by world Jewry

On fact-finding mission to Kiev, Donetsk and Odessa, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein finds a grim picture of rising costs and growing need

Ukrainian Jews seek to emigrate amid uncertainty

From the web Jewish Agency sees a sharp rise in Aliyah inquiries as tension between Kyiv and Moscow mounts, the Forward reports

Crimean Jews surprised by new referendum to join Russia

As unidentified gunmen patrol the peninsula, some Jews increasingly feel as if they’re ‘sitting on explosives’

Volunteers brave ‘war zone’ to aid elderly Jews in Kiev

Old and infirm in area of Independence Square, heart of Ukraine uprising, receive visits and care packages to the sound of sniper fire

Polish fashion entrepreneur makes being Jewish sexy

Antonina Samecka’s grandmother told her to remove her Star of David pendant when she came home to Warsaw from an Israel trip. She didn’t. Now she plasters them all over her trendy RISK OY designs

US’s top Iran negotiator: Sanctions relief ‘envisioned’ at $6-7 billion

In Senate testimony, Wendy Sherman uses conditional language on interim deal, is cautious over goal of final accord on rogue nuclear program

Biden announces effort to help Holocaust survivors

US administration plans to help non-profits provide needed services, and to use diplomacy to resolve Nazi-era property claims

Israeli team in Philippines to assess typhoon damage

Doctors, search and rescue experts to set up field hospital to treat wounded

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

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

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

Bulgaria to launch first large Jewish festival

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

Jewlyweds! Former campers marry where they met

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

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