http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php en mforr@alteryourview.com Copyright 2009 2009-11-20T18:39:44+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/eastern_europes_jews_now_out_of_the_shadows/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/eastern_europes_jews_now_out_of_the_shadows/#When:18:38:46Z Eastern Europe’s Jews have come out of the shadows. When the Cold War ended 20 years ago with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union, Jewish communities in the region were small, weak and generally veiled. Now Jewish life, culture, religious practice and ethnic identity are… News - International 2009-11-20T18:38:46+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/citing_new_reality_jdc_presses_for_change/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/citing_new_reality_jdc_presses_for_change/#When:16:40:09Z The main international relief agency of the Jewish federation system wants to pull the plug on a long-standing funding arrangement, saying it requires more money to meet the humanitarian needs of poor Jews abroad. Each year the Jewish Agency for Israel and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee split $160 million to $200 million raised by local Jewish federations… News - International 2009-11-20T16:40:09+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/partying_like_a_young_jew_in_europe/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/partying_like_a_young_jew_in_europe/#When:18:14:01Z Ask European Jewish leaders about the major challenges facing their communities and you’re likely to get an earful about how hard it is to find mates for young singles. London-born Rabbi Zevi Ives thinks he has hit upon a solution. For three years Ives, the Brussels-based director of the European Center for Jewish Students, or ECJS, has hosted… News - International 2009-11-18T18:14:01+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/crime_plus_politics_propelling_jews_out_of_venezuela/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/crime_plus_politics_propelling_jews_out_of_venezuela/#When:16:23:10Z Esther Benchimol de Roffe arrived in Venezuela as a young bride, leaving northern Morocco more than 50 years ago to meet her groom in a prosperous foreign land. The young couple fit in easily in a country where, as Spanish-speaking Sephardim, they already were familiar with the language and the Jewish community was established. Her husband built a… News - International 2009-11-17T16:23:10+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/pakistani_american_posed_as_jew_to_case_mumbai_chabad/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/pakistani_american_posed_as_jew_to_case_mumbai_chabad/#When:16:55:14Z A U.S. citizen of Pakistan origin allegedly posed as a Jew in order to enter the Mumbai Chabad center and prepare for last year’s attack. David Coleman Headley, 49, was arrested last month in Chicago as he tried to make his way to Pakistan via Philadelphia. U.S. and Indian authorities have been investigating Headley. Over the weekend, the… News - International 2009-11-16T16:55:14+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/egypts_forgotten_jewish_legacy/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/egypts_forgotten_jewish_legacy/#When:18:53:07Z Author André Aciman’s recent speech to the American Sephardi Federation yearly Benefit Dinner in New York at the Essex House Hotel near Central Park was a wake up call for the audience and hopefully people not present. He lamented the loss of time “le temps perdu” and deplored the loss of assets. Jews lived in Arabic countries for… News - International 2009-11-11T18:53:07+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/can_german_jewry_sustain_boost_from_russian_immigrants/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/can_german_jewry_sustain_boost_from_russian_immigrants/#When:15:50:10Z One of the most remarkable transformations in Europe since the fall of communism is the return of Jewish life in the country that generated the Holocaust. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago last week, postwar Jewish life in Germany was “more a museum piece than something living,” said Kuf Kaufmann, who emigrated here from… News - International 2009-11-11T15:50:10+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/viennas_jews_look_to_immigration_to_boost_numbers/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/viennas_jews_look_to_immigration_to_boost_numbers/#When:05:00:17Z From a shelf in his office, Ariel Muzicant extracts a weathered copy of a May 1985 community newsletter whose cover sports a graph depicting the Jewish population of Vienna nosediving. From its postwar peak of about 9,000 in the early 1960s, the graph projected the Jewish population dipping below 5,000 by the turn of the millennium. Nearly a… News - International 2009-11-11T05:00:17+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/german_city_juggles_russian_jewish_immigration/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/german_city_juggles_russian_jewish_immigration/#When:15:55:52Z When they sat down to eat, the 25 people gathered for Shabbat dinner at the temporary synagogue here on a recent Friday night segregated themselves along the spectrum of Jewish identity and experience. At one end of a long table sat the old-timers, several of whom had been friends since childhood and could trace their family history in… News - International 2009-11-10T15:55:52+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/leipzig_becoming_orthodox_jewish_hub_in_germany/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/leipzig_becoming_orthodox_jewish_hub_in_germany/#When:21:21:44Z At age 12, Pasha Segal arrived in Braunschweig, Germany from Ukraine knowing he was Jewish but lacking any further understanding of what that meant. At 19, he underwent ritual circumcision at a facility in Belgium designed for Jews like him. And last week, at 23 and still rosy-cheeked, Segal married Anya Chernyak, 22, in a ceremony that is… News - International 2009-11-09T21:21:44+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/ancient_venezuelan_cemetery_being_restored/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/ancient_venezuelan_cemetery_being_restored/#When:05:00:49Z Venezuelan Jewish groups partnered with a leading developer to restore the oldest existing Jewish cemetery in South America. The Venezuelan Israelite Association and the Center for Sephardic Studies are working with Constructora Sambil, a commercial developer owned by Salomon Cohen known for building some of the largest malls in Latin America, to repair the 177-year-old Jewish cemetery in… News - International 2009-11-08T05:00:49+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