The Rimon Artist Salon Series will present “Gathering the Mystic Light: The Art of Blowing Glass,” featuring glass artist Claude Riedel, 1 p.m. Sunday, March 25 at Foci Minnesota Center for Glass Arts, 2010 E. Hennepin Ave., Building #10, Minneapolis. Riedel will speak with artist and educator Aribert Munzner about Jewish mysticism and the art [...]

Main suspect in the shooting told police that he carried out the murders to ‘avenge Palestinian children’ By DANA KENNEDY PARIS (JTA) — When Arie Bensemhoun, a Jewish community leader in Toulouse, woke up Tuesday morning, he thought for a moment that the horrific shooting of three children and a rabbi at a local Jewish [...]

The pushback to Beinart’s essay was immediate and came from varied camps in the Israel debate By RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — Should Jews shun other Jews? And should they shun Jews who call on Jews to shun other Jews? Peter Beinart’s call in Monday’s New York Times for a boycott of goods manufactured in [...]

Internet archive offers window into physicist’s life and work By LINDA GRADSTEIN JERUSALEM — Ever wonder about Albert Einstein’s love life? Now you can get a firsthand glimpse by searching the newly improved Einstein Archives Web site, which re-launched Monday with expanded offerings. The online archive now makes available digitally 2,000 documents from Einstein’s papers [...]