Friday, 2 October 2009

Featured Stories

Shalit appears healthy in video

A video made on Sept. 14, 2009 shows captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit alive and apparently uninjured.
A video made on Sept. 14, 2009 shows captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit alive and apparently uninjured. (Nati Shohat / Flash 90 / JTA)
Kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit appears to be healthy in a video aired on Israeli television stations Friday. Read more »

Obama seeks clear next steps from Iran

U.S. officials went to Geneva for talks with Iran with preparations and alliances firmly in place -- some, apparently, for months. Read more »

In one Paris neighborhood, Jews and Muslims live as they did in N. Africa: together

Life in the Belleville neighborhood of Paris is idyllic compared to the hostility between Jews and Muslims in the immigrant suburbs surrounding Paris. Read more »

Editors' Picks

The acid test: We stand by our reporting

JTA's editor in chief stands by reporting on Jewish extremists.

Looking for rabbi work

You just fulfilled your dream of being ordained a rabbi. Now try finding a job. Tablet has the story.

Same-sex marraige announcements

Philadelphia's Jewish newspaper, the Exponent, has announced it will print same-sex marriage announcements.

The News Shticker: William Safire, Bar Refali, Jenny Slate

What would Nixon (William Safire) have said if the moon landing went bad? What's up with all the Jewish-themed movies? Is that Bar Refali on your cell phone? Did Jenny Slate just say the F-word on live television?


Breaking News

Palestinian diplomats deferred until March an effort to advance within the United Nations system the Goldstone report charging Israel and Hamas with war crimes.
Sixty-four percent of American Jews approve of President Obama's job performance, the highest of any religious group surveyed in a new Gallup poll.
Canadian customs officials seized materials that they believe were being illegally shipped to Iran for use in its nuclear weapons program.
Israel's attorney general reportedly will decide if any Israeli soldiers will face charges for misconduct during Israel's war in Gaza last January.
The only known video footage of Anne Frank has been made public by the Anne Frank House Museum.
No injuries were reported after a Kassam rocket was fired from Gaza into Shaar Hanegev, in southern Israel.
A federal judge in Argentina indicted former President Carlos Menem and six others who served under him for obstructing the investigation of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA center.
A new encyclopedia documents the history of the Holocaust in the former Soviet Union.
Ruth Brin, a Reform Jewish leader who modernized traditional Jewish prayers and texts, has died at age 88.