http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php en plevin@jewishtimes.com Copyright 2008 2008-05-13T11:17:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/olmert_probe_could_derail_peace_process/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/olmert_probe_could_derail_peace_process/#When:03:00:00Z The corruption investigation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, which is threatening to bring down the Israeli government, potentially may have far-reaching consequences for Middle East peacemaking. The contours of the probe against Olmert are still unclear. After questioning Olmert and his longtime former bureau chief, Shula Zaken, multiple times, police requested court permission to take testimony… News - International 2008-05-11T03:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/rabbis_aim_to_press_china_at_olympics/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/rabbis_aim_to_press_china_at_olympics/#When:03:00:00Z A large group of rabbis spanning Judaism’s religious movements says it has an answer to the vexing question of how to send China an Olympic-sized message without harming the interests of athletes or Israel. In an appeal timed for the commemoration of Yom Hashoah, 185 Jewish leaders—mostly clergy—appealed to Jews not to attend the Beijing Olympics… News - International 2008-05-10T03:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/pro_divestment_group_gains_access_to_racism_conference/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/pro_divestment_group_gains_access_to_racism_conference/#When:16:28:00Z When Iran effectively blocked a Canadian pro-Israel group from joining preparations for a major anti-racism forum last week, it drew headlines. But it was the quiet accreditation of a Palestinian group that in the end raised more eyebrows. With the 2009 World Conference Against Racism one year away, United Nations officials and Western diplomats have… News - International 2008-05-09T16:28:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/far_flung_communities_seek_place_in_jewish_world/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/far_flung_communities_seek_place_in_jewish_world/#When:14:03:00Z Miguel Segura Aguilo’s ancestors were executed as Jews five centuries ago in Spain, but he is not welcome in his local synagogue today. Gershom Sizomu, who will be ordained this month in Los Angeles as a Conservative rabbi, dreams of setting up the first yeshiva for African Jews in his Abayudayan village in East Uganda. … News - International 2008-05-07T14:03:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/non_jewish_germans_preserving_cemeteries/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/non_jewish_germans_preserving_cemeteries/#When:19:17:00Z Eckehart Ruthenberg stands beside tombstones overgrown with moss and layered with leaves to have a smoke, then dons a yarmulke and enters the gateless cemetery. This nearly forgotten Jewish burial site in the Polish forest is one of 600 that Ruthenberg, a non-Jewish German, has documented painstakingly. His self-imposed mandate is to rescue the names of… News - International 2008-05-06T19:17:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/orthodox_reject_china_boycott/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/orthodox_reject_china_boycott/#When:15:28:00Z Three Orthodox groups rejected calls on Jewish tourists to boycott the Beijing Olympics.  The Orthodox Union, Agudath Israel of America and the National Council of Young Israel each issued statements in the days following a call this week by 185 Jewish leaders—most of them clergy—to boycott the Olympics. That call was initiated by two prominent Orthodox… News - International 2008-05-05T15:28:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/push_to_collect_nazi_stories/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/push_to_collect_nazi_stories/#When:03:00:00Z It was the spring of 1943 when Otto Ernst Duscheleit, a Hitler Youth leader, received the call: Join the Waffen-SS or be sent to a penal battalion. “I was 17 and I knew little about what was happening,” Duscheleit recalls. He would spend two years on the front. Duscheleit helped set Russian… News - International 2008-05-04T03:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/europe_israel_ties_warming/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/europe_israel_ties_warming/#When:03:00:00Z When Israel asked for European troops, including Germans, to patrol the Israel-Lebanon border area following Israel’s 2006 war with Hezbollah, it was a salient sign of how far European ties with Israel have come in recent years. “Who would have ever thought that German soldiers would be charged—and trusted—to protect Israelis 65 years after the Holocaust?”… News - International 2008-05-03T03:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/europe_israel_ties_warming1/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/europe_israel_ties_warming1/#When:03:00:00Z When Israel asked for European troops, including Germans, to patrol the Israel-Lebanon border area following Israel’s 2006 war with Hezbollah, it was a salient sign of how far European ties with Israel have come in recent years. “Who would have ever thought that German soldiers would be charged—and trusted—to protect Israelis 65 years after the Holocaust?”… News - International 2008-05-03T03:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/belgian_sponsored_palestinian_festival_irks_jews/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/belgian_sponsored_palestinian_festival_irks_jews/#When:15:22:00Z Belgian Jewish leader Joel Rubinfeld had a queasy feeling last year when he first heard about a state-sponsored Palestinian cultural festival planned for Belgium. Now, he says, his worst suspicions have been confirmed. A preview of the festival in Paris featured posters that called for a boycott of Israel and compared Israeli raids on… News - International 2008-05-02T15:22:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/japanese_center_illuminates_holocaust/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/japanese_center_illuminates_holocaust/#When:18:56:01Z About an hour north of Hiroshima, where the world’s first atomic bombing incinerated an entire city in a matter of seconds, a statue of a young girl stands in memory of another holocaust half a world away. Anne Frank might seem out of place in rural Japan, but the man who founded the Holocaust Education Center… News - International 2008-04-30T18:56:01-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/getting_ex_nazis_to_talk/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/getting_ex_nazis_to_talk/#When:18:54:00Z It was the spring of 1943 when Otto Ernst Duscheleit, a Hitler Youth leader, received the call: Join the Waffen-SS or be sent to a penal battalion. “I was 17 and I knew little about what was happening,” Duscheleit recalls. He would spend two years on the front. Duscheleit helped set Russian… News - International 2008-04-29T18:54:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/belgian_palestinian_festival_irks_jews/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/belgian_palestinian_festival_irks_jews/#When:19:42:00Z Belgian Jewish leader Joel Rubinfeld had a queasy feeling last year when he first heard about a state-sponsored Palestinian cultural festival planned for Belgium. Now, he says, his worst suspicions have been confirmed. A preview of the festival last month in Paris featured posters that called for a boycott of Israel and compared Israeli… News - International 2008-04-28T19:42:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/belgian_palestinian_festival_irks_jews1/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/belgian_palestinian_festival_irks_jews1/#When:19:41:01Z Belgian Jewish leader Joel Rubinfeld had a queasy feeling last year when he first heard about a state-sponsored Palestinian cultural festival planned for Belgium. Now, he says, his worst suspicions have been confirmed. A preview of the festival last month in Paris featured posters that called for a boycott of Israel and compared Israeli… News - International 2008-04-28T19:41:01-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/jews_leaving_bolivia/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/jews_leaving_bolivia/#When:03:00:00Z More than any other single event in recent years, the future of Bolivian Jewry may be determined by the outcome of the country’s upcoming national referendum on a new constitution. The proposed constitution calling for increased state control of private-sector enterprise is being fiercely opposed by many middle- and upper-class Bolivians, including the country’s Jews. Four… News - International 2008-04-27T03:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/charity_officer_bows_out/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/charity_officer_bows_out/#When:03:00:00Z The chairman of the United Israel Appeal announced that he would not seek a third term in office, citing the controversy over his harsh criticisms of the top leaders of the North American federation system. Richard Wexler is in his second one-year term as the chairman of UIA, which acts as the legal conduit through which… News - International 2008-04-26T03:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/jews_inject_darfur_into_olympic_protest/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/jews_inject_darfur_into_olympic_protest/#When:16:03:00Z Tibet was on the minds and signs of most of the thousands of demonstrators who turned out to protest Chinese human rights abuses as the Olympic torch passed through San Francisco on its way to Beijing. But for about 100 green-shirted activists, including several Jewish luminaries, it was an opportunity for the Save Darfur Coalition… News - International 2008-04-25T16:03:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/italian_police_arrest_nazi_gang/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/italian_police_arrest_nazi_gang/#When:18:30:00Z Italian police broke up a gang of neo-Nazis and arrested 16 people on hate crimes charges. The arrests took place early Thursday in several towns in northern Italy’s largely German-speaking South Tyrol region. In an operation code-named Odessa, police arrested individuals ranging in age from 17 to 27 on charges of inciting discrimination, hatred and violence based on… News - International 2008-04-23T18:30:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/montreal_leads_in_march_participation/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/montreal_leads_in_march_participation/#When:19:08:00Z Montreal will again lead the world in the number of participants from one city in this year’s March of the Living, set to depart April 28, local organizers say. “We have more going than New York, Miami, Chicago,” said Mark Spatzner, who along with Elaine Dubrovsky are the Montreal co-chairs of the annual somber two-week… News - International 2008-04-22T19:08:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/jewish_program_helps_georgia_refugees/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/international_news/jewish_program_helps_georgia_refugees/#When:19:38:00Z Nino Dvali projects optimism and confidence, and her almond eyes sparkle when she talks about her lifelong dream: owning her own clothing boutique. When the 24-year-old Georgia native proudly unfolds the elegant, handmade black dress she designed, which looks like something Audrey Hepburn would be proud to wear, it serves as a potent reminder of how… News - International 2008-04-20T19:38:00-05:00