http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php en mforr@alteryourview.com Copyright 2009 2009-11-07T05:00:43+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/jewish_kgb_spy_murdered_in_moscow/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/jewish_kgb_spy_murdered_in_moscow/#When:05:00:05Z A Jewish KGB agent who spied on Israel and later became a business mogul in Russia was murdered in Moscow. Shabtai Kalmanovich, 62, was shot in his car near his home in an attack that was likely a contract killing, Russian authorities said. His driver also was shot and injured. Police believe the shooting was business related, according… News - International 2009-11-07T05:00:05+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/ahmadinejad_iran_ready_for_nuclear_cooperation/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/ahmadinejad_iran_ready_for_nuclear_cooperation/#When:05:00:23Z Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran is ready to cooperate with the West on its nuclear program. The West has “moved from confrontation to cooperation,” the Iranian president said Thursday in a speech broadcast live on state television, The New York Times reported. “We welcome fuel exchange, nuclear cooperation, building of power plants and reactors, and we are ready to… News - International 2009-11-06T05:00:23+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/wikipedia_striving_for_balance_on_divisive_issues/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/wikipedia_striving_for_balance_on_divisive_issues/#When:05:00:08Z From January’s war in Gaza to Holocaust denial, the world’s largest collaborative encyclopedia has become a battlefield over history. Yet Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales says the online, ever-evolving encyclopedia, which is authored by volunteer contributors around the world, ultimately is able to forge balanced entries even when it comes to even the most contentious issues. “It’s a human… News - International 2009-11-05T05:00:08+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/yemen_operation_is_happily_out_in_the_open/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/yemen_operation_is_happily_out_in_the_open/#When:21:03:56Z After months of stressing the need for silence, two major Jewish organizations and a former Bush administration official are embracing publicity about their roles in bringing Yemenite Jews to the United States. More than 60 Jews, who were among the last few hundred living in Yemen, have been resettled in the New York suburbs, according to representatives of… News - International 2009-11-04T21:03:56+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/big_stars_and_nuts_and_bolts_at_the_ga/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/big_stars_and_nuts_and_bolts_at_the_ga/#When:21:02:46Z Several big-name guests are slated to speak at the annual conference of North America’s largest Jewish charitable network, but the event itself promises to be heavy on the nuts-and-bolts fund-raising, budgeting and planning issues facing local federations. Among the marquee names slated to address the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America next week in Washington… News - International 2009-11-04T21:02:46+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/shoah_memorials_go_up_in_eastern_europe_with_some_flaws/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/shoah_memorials_go_up_in_eastern_europe_with_some_flaws/#When:15:05:58Z Under communism, Jewish suffering in World War II generally was treated as a footnote to the overall losses in what the Soviets called the “Great Patriotic War.” Public monuments existed at some Holocaust sites in Eastern Europe, such as Auschwitz, the Paneriai forest near Vilnius where at least 70,000 Jews were killed, and Babi Yar, where tens of… News - International 2009-11-03T15:05:58+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/new_german_memorial_honors_nazis_ignores_jews/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/new_german_memorial_honors_nazis_ignores_jews/#When:17:48:36Z A controversy has erupted in a German town over a new memorial that critics say honors SS soldiers and ignores Jewish Holocaust victims. The interfaith German-Israel Society says the memorial to be unveiled Nov. 15 in Grossburgwedel, near Hannover, recognizes members of the notorious Blackshirts. But the mayor of Burgwedel, which has jurisdiction over Grossburgwedel, rejects the charge.… News - International 2009-11-02T17:48:36+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/arrest_warrant_issued_for_alleged_s._african_ponzi_schemer/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/arrest_warrant_issued_for_alleged_s._african_ponzi_schemer/#When:17:57:24Z An arrest warrant was issued for a Jewish South African businessman who is alleged to have duped investors in a Ponzi scheme. Barry Tannenbaum is alleged to have defrauded investors out of $1.61 billion. Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said in parliament in Cape Town Tuesday that a warrant had been issued for Tannenbaum, who is believed to be… News - International 2009-11-01T17:57:24+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/advancing_toward_accountability_in_eastern_europe/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/advancing_toward_accountability_in_eastern_europe/#When:18:03:41Z A row of empty shoes where Jews were shot dead on the bank of the Danube River in Budapest. The image of a grand synagogue chiseled into stone at the place it once stood in Bratislava. A museum, a wall of names and a vast symbolic field of ashes at the site of the Belzec death camp in… News - International 2009-10-31T18:03:41+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/in_austria_remembering_prewar_jewish_life_not_just_death/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/in_austria_remembering_prewar_jewish_life_not_just_death/#When:18:03:14Z They shuffled along the uneven cobblestones on Schwedenplatz, a group of elderly Holocaust survivors in Vienna bound for a bus waiting to ferry them two hours west to Linz, Austria’s third-largest city. The occasion was the opening Monday of a photo exhibition at the Linz Wissensturm cultural center depicting Jewish life in prewar Europe. It’s part of a… News - International 2009-10-30T18:03:14+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/europes_far-right_parties_form_alliance/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/europes_far-right_parties_form_alliance/#When:05:00:07Z The main radical national movements of the European Union formed a political alliance. Gabor Vona, the leader of Hungary’s far-right Jobbik Party, made the announcement Saturday in Budapest. The Alliance of European Nationalist Movements will be registered either in Brussels or Luxembourg, Vona said during weekend celebrations honoring the anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against Soviet rule.… News - International 2009-10-29T05:00:07+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/ahmadinejad_iran_will_keep_nukes_as_long_as_israel_does/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/ahmadinejad_iran_will_keep_nukes_as_long_as_israel_does/#When:15:41:35Z Iran will continue to progress in its nuclear program as long as Israel continues to have nuclear weapons, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said. The Iranian president made the remarks Tuesday during a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the semi-official state news agency ISNR reported. “When an illegal regime possesses nuclear weapons, the other countries’ rights for peaceful… News - International 2009-10-28T15:41:35+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/australian_tv_gets_edgy_with_satire_on_intermarriage/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/australian_tv_gets_edgy_with_satire_on_intermarriage/#When:14:26:26Z A Jewish comedian walks into a Palestinian sperm bank and arouses himself on camera with the aid of Barack Obama’s book “The Audacity of Hope.” No, it’s not a stunt from Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest movie, but a scene from a new Australian TV show inspired by a Jew’s struggle with intermarriage. John Safran’s “Race Relations,” a controversial… News - International 2009-10-27T14:26:26+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/project_documents_stories_of_jewish_refugees_from_arab_countries/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/project_documents_stories_of_jewish_refugees_from_arab_countries/#When:16:46:52Z Joseph Samuels, born Yosef Sasson in Baghdad, was 18 when he fled Iraq for the new state of Israel. It was 1949, and life was becoming increasingly difficult for Jews in Iraq, as it was throughout the Arab world. The Sasson family’s good relations with their Muslim neighbors changed with Israel’s creation in 1948, and Yosef’s parents urged… News - International 2009-10-26T16:46:52+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/auschwitz_museum_launches_facebook_page/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/auschwitz_museum_launches_facebook_page/#When:05:00:01Z The state-run Auschwitz Memorial Museum in Poland launched its official page on Facebook. By Thursday, less than a week after the page debuted on the popular social networking Web site, the Auschwitz page had more than 1,400 members. The page was launched to reach out to a broader, younger public. “Auschwitz Memorial is experimenting with new ways of… News - International 2009-10-25T05:00:01+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/demjanjuk_appeal_rejected/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/demjanjuk_appeal_rejected/#When:05:00:50Z Germany’s highest court turned down an appeal from accused Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk. The rebuff Wednesday by Germany’s Constitutional Court means that the war crimes trial of the former American citizen will begin Nov. 30 in Munich, as scheduled. Demjanjuk, 89, is charged with being an accessory in the murder of 27,900 people in the Nazi death… News - International 2009-10-24T05:00:50+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/iranian_negotiators_agree_to_nuclear_enrichment_plan/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/iranian_negotiators_agree_to_nuclear_enrichment_plan/#When:19:48:08Z Iranian negotiators reportedly have agreed to a draft of an accord that would allow most of its nuclear fuel to be enriched in Russia. Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog, said Wednesday that the Iranian negotiators meeting in Vienna had accepted the draft agreement, but added that it would have to be approved by the… News - International 2009-10-23T19:48:08+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/from_hell_to_hope_inside_berlins_postwar_jewish_dp_camps/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/from_hell_to_hope_inside_berlins_postwar_jewish_dp_camps/#When:21:38:58Z All its physical traces are gone, but the Jewish DP camp in Schlachtensee is not forgotten. Sixty-one years since this and the other two such camps here were shut down, a filmmaker has gathered stories of those who passed through on their way from destruction to a new life. Called “Jewish Transit Berlin: From Hell to Hope,” the… News - International 2009-10-22T21:38:58+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/fm_iran_wont_abandon_nuclear_technology/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/fm_iran_wont_abandon_nuclear_technology/#When:15:27:04Z The second day of negotiations over enriching Iran’s uranium in another country were delayed as the delegations met for consultations. The delay Tuesday in Vienna came following a news conference by Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in which he stated that “Iran will never abandon its legal and obvious right” to nuclear technology. “The meetings with world powers… News - International 2009-10-21T15:27:04+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/in_do-over_on_goldstone_human_rights_council_ignores_hamas/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/in_do-over_on_goldstone_human_rights_council_ignores_hamas/#When:15:01:02Z Who says there are no do-overs in international politics? When the U.N. Human Rights Council endorsed the Goldstone report on the Gaza war last Friday, it reversed a surprise delay of its endorsement two weeks earlier. The Palestinians viewed last Friday’s endorsement as a corrective; Israel saw it as a return to the problematic policies of the past.… News - International 2009-10-20T15:01:02+00:00