International News

With Obama Trip Looming, New Realism Limits Options

02/13/2013 | James D. Besser | Special To The Jewish Week

President Barack Obama, entering his second and last term as chief executive, may be thinking about cementing his legacy. But whispers that he may seek to do it by brokering Israeli-Palestinian peace have the whiff of wishful thinking by those who would like to see it happen — and paranoia by those who don’t.

Leaders Say Benedict XVI Built On John Paul II's Interfaith Work

02/12/2013 | Steve Lipman | Staff Writer

In the early years of his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI hosted an audience at the Vatican with Abraham Foxman, the Holocaust survivor who serves as national director of the Anti-Defamation League.

Hate In 140 Characters

01/30/2013 | Cnaan Liphshiz/ JTA

Brussels (JTA) — Immediately after a French court ordered Twitter to reveal details about users who had posted anti-Semitic messages, a proud Sacha Reingewirtz was already spreading the word about a judgment he helped win — via Twitter.

After Five Years, Italy's First Holocaust Museum Is Years Away

01/22/2013 | JTA

If all goes according to plan, a starkly modern, $30 million Holocaust museum will soon rise on the site of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini’s Rome residence.

In Germany, Jewish Activist Named Sexiest Female Politician

01/17/2013 | JTA

A 25-year-old Jewish woman has been voted Germany's sexiest female politician.

Dutch City Begins Restoring Fourteenth-Century Mikveh

01/10/2013 | JTA

The Dutch city of Venlo began restoring a recently discovered mikvah -- the oldest proof of Jewish life in the country.

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