In total, 86 Gazan patients accompanied by 124 family members were taken to the UAE. The rest were flown to Romania.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli defense electronics company announced Wednesday that it had been awarded the lucrative contract to supply Romania with up to seven Watchkeeper X tactical unmanned aircraft systems.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I stand behind what I said in the past. There is no change in policy,” said Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă.
By JNi.Media
The Romanian group for Monitoring and Fighting Anti-Semitism condemned the vandalism against the "memory of Elie Wiesel, the memory of the Holocaust victims and the souls of the Holocaust survivors."
By JNi.Media
Nineteen countries participate in the maneuvers, with about 18,000 soldiers spread around Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
By JNi.Media
'I reminded the captain that I was also a doctor and told the flight attendant to let me know if the passenger's condition was getting worse.'
By JNi.Media
US-Turkey relations have so deteriorated after the coup that Washington no longer trusts Ankara with the nuclear weapons.
By JNi.Media
Painter Jonasz Stern left a permanent mark on the Polish art of the 20th century.
The Jewish State’s high school delegation took home two medals.
By JNi.Media
For ten years after the war, Wiesel refused to write about or discuss his experiences during the Holocaust.
By JTA
He explains he was just following that other people were doing. Sound familiar?
The history of Zionism in Jassy, Romania, amidst persecution and antisemitism.
By JTA
Romania supports in principle Israel’s demand for Palestinian recognition of Israel as the Jewish state but encourages compromises on this and other issues, Romanian President Traian Basescu said. Speaking to JTA at his presidential palace two days before an Israel visit that began Sunday, Basescu said that “if they [the Palestinians] want peace, they must […]
By JTA
An Israeli-American man caught in a sting operation trying to sell weapons to Taliban terrorists was sentenced on Wednesday to 25 years in prison. Oded Orbach, 55, of Highland Park, Ill., was convicted in April of conspiring to provide material support to the Taliban and conspiring to acquire anti-aircraft missiles. A U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency […]
By JTA
Ukrainian Jewish leaders said Romania was unfit to head a Holocaust remembrance forum because it has not done enough to come to grips with its own Holocaust-era culpability. Approximately 380,000 Jews were murdered in Romania-controlled areas during the Holocaust, according to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. “Romania’s actions prove it is not ready […]
Holocaust survivors have at least two ways to take revenge against the Nazis. One is to overcome the past and bring a new family into the world. The other is to donate a Torah. Marge Fettmen did both.
The virus of antisemitism is alive and well in Eastern Europe, and so is the denial of the Holocaust. It is particularly disconcerting that a younger generation in Rumania, and more than likely everywhere else in the world, should be infected with this virus, and is -- or claims to be -- ignorant of the real treatment of Jews in the 20th century.
Reb Pinchos, born in Romania, moved shortly after birth with his parents to Vienna. As a teenager, he learned in another city and took his Gemara with him. Pinchos remembered how his rebbe always liked to teach from his Gemara.