NEW YORK—The Pacific island nation of Samoa took 186,000 citizens through a national time warp by moving west of the international dateline. The country forfeited the last Friday of 2011 and jumped straight from Thursday into Saturday. More...
Israeli-American businessman Micky Arison is the CEO and chairman of the company that operates the cruise line whose ship ran aground off the Italian coast. More...
Ceremonies in Budapest inaugurated Raoul Wallenberg Year, a series of events marking the centennial of the birth of the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. More...
WASHINGTON— @JewishWhiteHouse is back. President Obama announced that Jack Lew, his director of the Office of Budget and Management—a Cabinet-level position—would replace William Daley as White House chief of staff. More...
More than six million Jews are living in the United States, according to two independent studies. The two studies, using completely different methodology, discovered between 6.4 million and 6.6 million U.S. More...
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