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The Barbaras advertisement (Screenshot from Barbaras’ website, JTA)
January 14, 2016, 3:42 pm
El Chapo wears Jewish fashion; you can too
Captured Mexican drugs kingpin brings sales boon for LA-based Iranian brothers
By JTA
A man wades through flood waters at Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, England. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)
January 5, 2016, 7:39 pm
IsraAID helps British flood victims
First response group helping to repair homes and hand out blankets and food in northern city of Leeds
By Sue Surkes
Actor Sean Penn in black t-shirt helping Tevel b'Tzedek volunteers following the earthquake in Haiti, 2010 (photo courtesy Tevel b'Tzedek)
November 30, 2015, 6:19 pm
Sean Penn lauds Israeli aid agency as Haiti ‘mentor’
On first visit to Jewish state, Oscar winner delivers keynote address at IsraAID’s Tel Aviv conference
By Jessica Steinberg
Micha Odenheimer
November 18, 2015, 3:57 pm
Micha Odenheimer
Why Sean Penn is coming to Israel
Despite the Hollywood star’s leftist lean, the idealistic young Israelis he met in Haiti made an impression
Jacob Ostreicher in Los Angeles on December 15, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
January 6, 2015, 10:57 pm
Year after escaping Bolivia, Orthodox Jew struggles to recover
Businessman Jacob Ostreicher credits actor Sean Penn with saving him from Third World prison nightmare, but has yet to rebuild his life
By Frank Bajak
Free shuttle buses from the suburbs helped hundreds of families make it to downtown Boston for the largest Israel rally since the start of Operation Protective Edge (photo credit: Elan Kawesch)
September 25, 2014, 3:20 pm
Tragedy, triumph and tears in foremost Jewish events of 5774
…But this year of war and massive funerals also brought us an Israeli Wonder Woman — and a 12-year-old telling penis jokes on national US television
By JTA
Actor Sean Penn accepting the Champion of Jewish Justice Award at the World Jewish Values Network’s gala dinner in New York City, May 18, 2014 (photo credit: Ben Gabbe/Getty Images/JTA)
May 20, 2014, 5:38 am
Celebs come out to fete Shmuley Boteach’s network
At an event honoring Sheldon Adelson, Republican presidential hopefuls rub shoulders with Hollywood stars
By Julie Wiener
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (courtesy)
April 24, 2014, 2:48 pm
Shmuley Boteach hails the saving power of lust
Rabbi discusses celebrity friends, the difficulties of modern living, Jonathan Pollard and more in free-wheeling interview
By Jordan Hoffman
Jacob Ostreicher, a New York City businessman, left, arrives at a court to attend a hearing in Santa Cruz, Bolivia in 2012. (photo credit: AP Photo, file)
December 25, 2013, 8:46 am
Ostreicher’s flight proves guilt, says Bolivian prez
Actor Sean Penn calls the haredi businessman’s escape a ‘humanitarian operation’
By JTA
Actor Sean Penn leaves Bolivia's presidential palace after meeting with Evo Morales, whom he's pressed for Ostreicher's freedom. (Juan Karita/AP)
December 18, 2013, 11:46 am
Sean Penn with US businessman wanted in Bolivia
Hollywood A-lister says ‘humanitarian operation’ led to the extraction of Jacob Ostreicher from ‘corrupt prosecution and imprisonment’
By Carlos Valdez and Joshua Goodman
New York businessman Jacob Ostreicher, right, consults with attorney Abel Montano at a courthouse in Bolivia, where he was being held without charges (photo credit: AP/File)
May 24, 2013, 6:26 am
Jacob Ostreicher’s wife laments: ‘They will never let him go’
At a congressional hearing, actor Sean Penn calls for the US to ‘step up’ for Alan Gross in Cuba as well
By Suzanne Pollak
Actor Sean Penn leaves Bolivia's presidential palace after meeting with Evo Morales, whom he's pressed for Ostreicher's freedom. (Juan Karita/AP)
May 22, 2013, 12:54 pm
Sean Penn lobbies for haredi man imprisoned in Bolivia
Actor suggests putting pressure on sponsors of money-making Dakar Rally to reroute race until Jacob Ostreicher freed
Jacob Ostreicher, an Orthodox investor from Brooklyn, has been freed from prison in Bolivia but will remain under house arrest after paying $14,000 as bail. (AP/File)
December 27, 2012, 8:03 pm
Freed Haredi man: Bolivia’s Jewish community was ‘disappointing’
US Jewish businessman Jacob Ostreicher, who remains under house arrest in South America, claims local Jews are afraid of their government
New York businessman Jacob Ostreicher, right, consults with attorney Abel Montano at a courthouse in Bolivia, where he was being held without charges (photo credit: AP/File)
December 12, 2012, 5:32 pm
After 28th hearing, Orthodox man jailed in Bolivia calls case a joke
At a proceeding attended by actor Sean Penn, judges refuse to free man seen as victim of extortion conspiracy
By Carlos Valdez and Frank Bajak
New York businessman Jacob Ostreicher, right, consults with attorney Abel Montano at a courthouse in Bolivia, where he was being held without charges (photo credit: AP/File)
December 11, 2012, 8:50 pm
With Sean Penn’s help, US Jew jailed in Bolivia may be released
A growing extortion scandal suggests a conspiracy to confine Jacob Ostreicher, an Orthodox agriculture investor from New York
By Carlos Valdez and Frank Bajak
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