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Staff and volunteers at the new community center run by Hashomer Hatzair in Kharkiv, Ukraine on April 4, 2023. (Hashomer Hatzair)
April 11, 2023, 11:48 am
Israeli Youth Movement Opens Community Center in Ukraine
Open to all of Kharkiv’s residents, the Asho Center features one of the bombed-out city’s few running kindergartens.
By Canaan Lidor
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, right, speaks as he meets with US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, in Washington. (GPO)
August 27, 2021, 2:29 pm
At First Meeting, Biden Pledges to Bennett that Iran will ‘Never’ get Nukes
After 50-minute meeting at White House, US leader says he prefers diplomacy with Tehran but there are ‘other options’; hopes for ‘close personal relationship’ with premier.
By LAZAR BERMAN
Ludwig Guttmann (Design by Emily Burack; photo via Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images via JTA)
August 27, 2021, 1:59 pm
The Jewish Doctor who Escaped the Nazis and Founded the Paralympics
Ludwig Guttmann, who became a leading physician in the UK after the war, was fundamental in introducing sport as a way to rehabilitate paraplegic patients, boost their self-esteem.
By EVELYN FRICK
August 26, 2021, 4:28 pm
Archaeologists Expose Torah Ark of Vilna Synagogue Destroyed by Nazis, Soviets
Joint Israeli-Lithuanian six-year excavation in ruins of centuries-old Jewish community center unearths prayer platform, silver pointer used when reading the Torah.
By MICHAEL BACHNER
Courtesy of Jewish National Fund // Israeli Olympic baseball team celebrates qualifying for the Tokyo games.
July 29, 2021, 5:03 pm
Israel Sends Baseball Team to Olympics
The first team from Israel to qualify in 45 years will be represented by former U.S. MLB players along with Israelis.
By Nathan Posner
Illustrative: A pill is held in a hand (Rosifan19; iStock by Getty Images)
July 23, 2021, 6:57 pm
Israeli COVID Vaccine in Pill Form to Start Clinical Trial in Tel Aviv
As world talks of possible boosters, and with poorer countries struggling to get shots in arms, developer claims pill could be ‘game-changer’ by simplifying logistics.
By Nathan Jeffay
Search and rescue workers oversee an excavator dig through the rubble of the collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on July 9, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. (Anna Moneymaker / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
July 23, 2021, 6:34 pm
Firefighters Officially End Search for Bodies at Collapsed Florida Condo
Forensic specialists continue working to identify human remains; inspector warns unstable retaining wall could cause site and nearby road to collapse.
By David Fischer and Terry Spencer
Aerial photo shows part of the 12-story oceanfront Champlain Towers South Condo that collapsed in Surfside, Fla. Photo by Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP
July 13, 2021, 3:50 pm
Surfside Disaster Hits Home
Grief and relief leave local Jewish community reeling.
By Jan Jaben-Eilon
Rescue workers search in the rubble at the Champlain Towers South condominium, June 26, 2021, in the Surfside area of Miami (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
June 27, 2021, 11:06 am
Israel Sends IDF Team to Florida to Assist with Tower Collapse Rescue Efforts.
Home Front Command delegation of 10 reservists flies to Miami; Israel’s United Hatzalah sends psychological assistance team; Bennett speaks to the governor and offers help.
By EMANUEL FABIAN
In this Jan. 4, 2017 file photo, Vice President Joe Biden, left, watches President Barack Obama, center, at Conmy Hall, Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Va. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
November 11, 2020, 7:42 am
Obama Blew His Mideast Hopes on His First Trip. Will Biden Chart a Wiser Course?
The new president will seek to repudiate his predecessor. But Obama showed that an administration cannot achieve its goals armed only with the knowledge of what it is not.
By HAVIV RETTIG GUR
US President Donald Trump, right, looks over to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, January 28, 2020, at which Trump unveiled his "Peace to Prosperity" vision for an Israeli-Palestinian accord. (AP/Susan Walsh)
November 9, 2020, 7:19 am
Annexation, Iran Sanctions, Weapons? What Israel May Ask of Trump as He Leaves
Obama allowed UN Security Council resolution slamming settlements to pass when he was a lame duck; by contrast, Jerusalem is hoping for farewell gifts from the outgoing president.
By RAPHAEL AHREN
The Moorish Zionist Temple, Harlem, NY, 1929 (James Van Der Zee/The Folklore Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem via the National Library of Israel Digital Collection)
November 9, 2020, 7:04 am
Yiddisher Black Cantors from 100 Years Ago Rediscovered Thanks to Rare Recording
Discographer Henry Sapoznik tracks down record by international Yiddish-language performer Thomas LaRue, and slips into a rabbit hole of Black Jewish history.
By RENEE GHERT-ZAND
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks during a discussion on the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
September 21, 2020, 6:54 am
Ginsburg: ‘The Demand for Justice Runs Through Jewish History’
The jurist, who died at 87 on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, was frank about the importance of Jewish tradition and said her roots as an outsider were building block of her perspective.
By SARAH WILDMAN
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner speaks at a press briefing at the White House in Washington, following the announcement of Israel's normalization agreement with the UAE, August 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
September 10, 2020, 6:03 pm
Kushner: Our Plan is Bid to Save 2-State Solution; Israel was Eating up the Land
Trump adviser warns Palestinians that if they continue to reject Trump peace proposal ‘the situation is just going to get worse and worse for them’; says US won’t ‘chase’ Ramallah.
By JACOB MAGID
Laboratory technicians work at the mAbxience biopharmaceutical company on an experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and the laboratory AstraZeneca in Garin, Argentina, August 14, 2020. (Natacha Pisarenko/AP)
September 9, 2020, 6:28 am
AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Paused After One Illness
Company investigating if a recipient’s ‘potentially unexplained’ illness is a side effect of shot, calls move ‘standard review process,’ in late-stage study.
By LAURAN NEERGAARD
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