Headlines

Israel

Israel's Conundrum With Syria

Local

Death as a Constant Part of Life

Sports

Masters Hockey Team Revels in Camaraderie

National

U.N. Nominee Elicits High Praise, Criticism

Local

Local Interfaith Group Gets New Head

Local

Old York Road Group Seeks More Funding

National

Elder Netanyahu Recalled as Noted Scholar and Right-Wing Activist

By:

Rafael Medoff, Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Benzion Netanyahu -- historian, one-time political activist and father of Israel's prime minister -- had strong ties to Philadelphia and played a surprising and little-known role in American political history. An accomplished scholar and the patriarch of one of Israel's most important political families, Netanyahu died Monday in Jerusalem at 102. He was born in Poland in 1910 to a...

Local

SPHAS Get Some Philly Recognition

By:

Bryan Schwartzman

The Philadelphia SPHAS, the long defunct South Philadelphia Hebrew Association's basketball team, are getting a historic plaque from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. The team, which existed from 1918 to 1959, first as an amateur squad and later as a professional club, played an important role in both the history of Philadelphia Jewry and the development of pro-basketball. Most...

Israel

AJC Poll: Rising Support for Obama

By:

Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama enjoys the support of three-fifths of American Jews, according to the latest American Jewish Committee survey, a significant improvement over where he stood half a year ago in the organization's polling. The poll, released Monday, shows Obama with 61 percent of the Jewish vote, as opposed to 28 percent for Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor...

Israel

Bluffing on Iran?

By:

Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Washington · Analysis Just what is Israel's latest thinking on Iran? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak in recent months have been more explicit than ever about the likelihood of an Israeli strike on Iran to keep it from obtaining nuclear weapons capability. Are Barak and Netanyahu merely posturing, or are they really intent on waging...

Headlines

Limmud Weekend Beats All

By:

Deborah Hirsch

Twenty-three-year-old Meir Shapiro wears a yarmulke. He studies music, Torah and architecture at New York's Yeshiva University. And he beatboxes -- all over the world. In the year and a half since a viral Chanukah parody catapulted the Maccabeats into Internet fame, Shapiro and 13 fellow members of the Orthodox a cappella group have performed in New Zealand, Hong Kong...