Israeli, 24, dies in Peru zip-line accident
An Israeli hiker was killed when a zip-line platform collapsed in Peru.
An Israeli hiker was killed when a zip-line platform collapsed in Peru.
Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” is, in many ways, a barometer of American society and its evolution.
Shulem Deen, the former Skverer Hasid who for years blogged under the pseudonym “Hasidic Rebel,” has just published a memoir, “All Who Go Do Not Return” (Graywolf Press). Deen, now 40, describes his sheltered life in New Square, the virtually all-Hasidic village an hour north of New York City, and tells how he lost his faith and, ultimately, his five children. Deen, whose slight Yiddish accent shows his roots, recently sat down with JTA (the interview has been condensed and edited).
A poem by Charles Bernstein.
Jewish groups praised the guilty verdict in the Boston Marathon bombing case.
The Argentine government will declassify all the intelligence documents about the deadly 1992 bombing on the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires.
President Hassan Rouhani of Iran said his country will sign a final deal on its nuclear program only if sanctions are immediately lifted.
Armed Palestinian police have expanded security control to Palestinian towns bordering Jerusalem.