globe

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
by
Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org
The Jewish Chronicle
The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has used lethal chemical weapons, mostly sarin gas, against armed rebels several times in the past few weeks, and is continuing to do so, the head of...
Copyright 2013 The Jewish Chronicle. All rights reserved.
Jack Lew, Obama’s pick for Treasury secretary, is the highest-ranking Orthodox Jew in U.S. government history
by
By Yair Rosenberg
Tablet The Jewish Chronicle
Copyright 2013 The Jewish Chronicle. All rights reserved.
full story
Tablet The Jewish Chronicle
Archives
ODESSA, Ukraine — Across the former Soviet Union, Chabad’s outreach network is facing an acute financial crisis that has slashed budgets across the board and left the region’s largest network of J...
Copyright 2013 The Jewish Chronicle. All rights reserved.
NEW YORK — A supermarket in New Jersey with a large kosher section has shelves nearly empty of kosher beef. In New York, a kosher steakhouse says its customers are canceling reservations because c...
Copyright 2013 The Jewish Chronicle. All rights reserved.
JERUSALEM — In a normal year, an address by the Israeli prime minister would be treated as the centerpiece of a gathering of American Jews, especially one being held in Jerusalem. But the context ...
Copyright 2013 The Jewish Chronicle. All rights reserved.
KHIRBET QEIYAFA, Israel — Under a sky of darkening clouds on a hill above the valley where tradition says David and Goliath did battle, the archeologist Yosef Garfinkel triumphantly rests his hands...
Copyright 2013 The Jewish Chronicle. All rights reserved.
JERUSALEM — With Israel’s general election less than three months away, the once all-powerful Labor Party seems to be in disarray.
A new left-wing alliance forming around the dovish Meretz Party s...
Copyright 2013 The Jewish Chronicle. All rights reserved.
By Ron Kampeas
JTA
WASHINGTON — Political insight, killer in a fight, Yiddishkeit — it’s an inseparable package when it comes to Rahm Emanuel, say those who know President-elect Barack Obama’s pick...
Copyright 2013 The Jewish Chronicle. All rights reserved.
By Leslie Susser
JTA
JERUSALEM — Barack Obama’s election as America’s first black president has left Israeli decision makers deeply impressed, somewhat envious of the workings of American democrac...
Copyright 2013 The Jewish Chronicle. All rights reserved.
The apparent victory of a secular businessman in Jerusalem’s mayoral elections was greeted with relief by Israelis concerned about the increasing Orthodox character of the city.
Early exit polls T...
Copyright 2013 The Jewish Chronicle. All rights reserved.
SYDNEY, Australia — It may be known as the “Land of the Long White Cloud,” but the forecast for New Zealand appears to be bright — at least for Israel and the small Kiwi Jewish community.
The majo...
Copyright 2013 The Jewish Chronicle. All rights reserved.
JERUSALEM — About a dozen men were scrabbling hard at an old, cracked wall. From time to time, they would stab a wooden pick inside the jammed crevices, as if they were microscopic dental hygienis...
Copyright 2013 The Jewish Chronicle. All rights reserved.
software copyright © 2013 Radiate Media, inc. content copyright © 2013 Jewish Chronicle
read our privacy policy
The Jewish Chronicle is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
read our privacy policy
The Jewish Chronicle is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

















