Asia
‘Why is it that I can’t say something against the Jews?’ Malaysia’s leader asks at Columbia
By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN NEW YORK (JTA) — The prime minister of Malaysia defended his past anti-Semitic statements and questioned the...
Talmud-inspired learning craze sweeps South Korea
by TIM ALPER SEOUL, South Korea (JTA) — In 2014, Kim Hye-kyung found herself staring into an educational abyss. A...
Israel ponders leadership change in Pakistan
By CHARLES DUNST (JTA) — The election of former cricket star Imran Khan as Pakistan’s new prime minister has raised...
What it’s like to be Jewish in South Korea
There are about 1,000 Jews living in South Korea By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN (JTA) — Though the Jewish community in South...
The world’s largest seder — in Nepal — will go on
Despite a slow recovery from a 2015 earthquake, as many as 1,500 Israeli and Jewish backpackers could show up for...
Russian Jews rattled by Nemtsov murder
The murder hit Russia’s Jewish intelligentsia hard because ‘nearly all the leaders of the liberal opposition are either fully Jewish...
