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Poland's tragedy is our tragedy

Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife visiting the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, Sept. 12, 2006. (Olivier Fitoussi / Flash90 /JTA)

The Jewish community lost several friends when the plane carrying Polish political, economic and military leaders crashed near Katyn. David Harris of the American Jewish Committee offers remembrances of three of them. Read more »

Rebuilding a synagogue where Jews resisted Soviets

In Soviet times, the small town of Malakhovka, less than 10 miles from Moscow, was the center of Jewish underground activity. In 2005 its old wooden synagogue was burned down in a fire. Five years later, the shared effort of local authorities and wealthy Moscow Jews have enabled the opening of a new synagogue. Read more » Fundermentalist from Phoenix at the JFN conference For the next couple of days, I'll be filing from Phoenix, where the Jewish Funders Network is holding its annual conference. Read more » Joshua Venture announces its fellows After much debate and controversy, Joshua Venture this morning announced its new batch of grantees. Read more » BREAKING NEWS Jews in Poland joined in mourning the victims of a plane crash that took the lives of President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of other members of Poland's leadership. Eugene Ribakoff, a philanthropist and businessman who headed the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for eight years, died last Friday at the age of 84. A far right party, Jobbik, won 26 seats in Hungarian parliamentary elections Sunday, to the dismany of Hungarian and European Jewish leaders. A Saudi scholar has dropped plans to film a television show in Jerusalem after criticism from a Jordanian group. Israeli-Arab singer Mira Awad canceled her appearance at a concert in London for Israel Independence Day. A mild earthquake rocked the Haifa area. Malcolm McLaren, the Jewish punk impresario who launched the Sex Pistols upon an unsuspecting world, has died. A rabbi in Arizona has been extradited to New York on charges that he raped a 7-year-old girl while he was a student at the Conservative movement's main rabbinical school. A former employee of an online baby equipment retailer is suing its CEO for allegedly making frequent anti-Semitic remarks. A Rome court has sentenced a man to six months in jail for having posted a list of 162 academics on his blog and describing them as members of an alleged "Jewish lobby." The former IDF soldier currently indicted for espionage told an Israeli court that she took classified documents to expose war crimes, Haaretz reported. Israel's prime minister used his annual address at Israel's national Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony to warn about the dangers of a nuclear Iran. President Obama called on people to honor the memory of Holocaust victims in a statement released in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, who now heads the Jewish Agency for Israel, led more than 10,000 people in the March of the Living in Poland on Yom Hashoah. Anti-Semitic incidents around the world more than doubled in 2009 over the previous year, posting their worst year since monitoring began two decades ago, according to a new survey. U.S. and Israeli officials discounted reports that the Obama administration is denying visas to Israeli nuclear scientists. A solid majority of American Jews support Barack Obama's and Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of U.S.-Israeli relations, according to a new survey.