US & Canada
UPDATE: Plaintiffs will likely appeal court ruling in ConAgra/Hebrew National lawsuit
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR On Jan. 31, U.S. District Court Judge Donovan W. Frank today granted ConAgra Foods' motion to dismiss...
From death row to freedom
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR For more than a century, juries in criminal cases in the United States have been instructed that...
Rabbi recites prayer of mourning at memorial for victims of school shooting in Newtown
Rabbi Shaul Praver, spiritual leader of Congregation Adath Israel in Newtown, Conn., moved many to tears when he recited El...
Lawsuit: Hebrew National hot dogs not kosher
(Editor's note: This is a revised version of a story that was posted on AJWNEWS.com on June 13. That story...
Business Scene, 8.19.11
Kosher frozen yogurt Bill Marker is the owner of Chilly Billy’s, a new self-serve frozen yogurt shop located in Dinkytown,...
Mitt Romney, John Thune address Jewish Republican gathering in Vegas
LAS VEGAS (JTA) — At the Republican Jewish Coalition's winter leadership retreat here, it was the absence of certain likely...
Elena Kagan, the (Israeli) Supreme Court and Chinese food on Christmas Day
The Senate confirmation hearing for Supreme Court justice nominee Elena Kagan — who is in line to become the third...
Dr. Henia Liebhaber, physician, mother and rebbetzin, dies
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Dr. Henia Liebhaber, who survived the Shoah and became a physician in Germany after the war, died...
Seymour Hersh exposes Washington
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Early in a phone chat last week with Seymour Hersh, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter mentions, regarding...
