International News

Startup Nation Takes On Hebrew School

06/05/2013 | Julie Wiener | Associate Editor

In a move likely to give the fledgling Jewish educational technology field a much-needed shot of capital and know-how, an Israeli nonprofit and an American publishing company best known for its Hebrew school textbooks are teaming up to create the first-ever incubator focused on developing Jewish educational games, apps, software and other high-tech resources.

The Last Jews Of Ethiopia

06/04/2013 | Steve Lipman | Staff Writer

The remaining members of the Ethiopian Jewish community will make aliyah by the end of this summer, and the Jewish Agency educational compound in the northern part of the country that has prepared them for their new lives in Israel will be turned over this month to the Ethiopian government.

Omens In Mitteleuropa

05/07/2013 | Michele Chabin | Israel Correspondent

Budapest, Hungary — Close to the parliament building, dozens of shoes from a bygone era stand at the edge of the Danube River, the focal point of this picturesque central European city.

Swiss Fund To Hasten Fuller List Of Victims

05/01/2013 | Stewart Ain | Staff Writer

A milestone in Holocaust history — compiling all the names possible of the Nazis’ Jewish victims — appears within reach as a result of the proposed allocation of $4.5 million from the Swiss bank settlement with Holocaust victims and survivors.

Ukrainian Savior Of Synagogue Honored

04/24/2013 | JTA

KIEV, Ukraine -- A Ukrainian Christian who saved a dilapidated rural synagogue was honored at an interaith forum in Kiev.

A Taste Of Poland’s Jewish Past

04/17/2013 | Steve Lipman | Staff Writer

Warsaw — At a corner table in the Pod Samsonem restaurant, under framed etchings of the Bible’s Samson and of old Warsaw streetscapes, a middle-aged woman cuts up her “Jewish style” trout one recent evening.