Former Yukos CEO Khodorkovsky Found Guilty of Embezzlement
(JTA) -- Former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was found guilty of embezzlement and theft.The conviction against the former head of the Yukos oil company was handed down by a judge in Moscow...
View ArticlePutin: Russia Already Recognizes Palestine
JTA Russian President Vladimir Putin told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that Moscow already has recognized a Palestinian state."We [recognized Palestine] 25 years ago, and our...
View ArticlePutin: Russia Already Recognizes Palestine
JTA Russian President Vladimir Putin told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that Moscow already has recognized a Palestinian state."We [recognized Palestine] 25 years ago, and our...
View ArticleThe Mitzvah Of Adoption, Orphans In Russia And The Baal Shem Tov
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz Jewish Week Online Columnist A Chabad family in Nepal recently made a great public Kiddush Hashem (sanctification of God’s name) by adopting a starving child. While definitions...
View ArticlePutin Lifts Ban On Russian Air Defense Missile Sales To Iran
JTA President Vladimir Putin of Russia lifted a ban on the sale of an advanced Russian missile defense system that could reinforce Iran’s defense of its nuclear facilities.read more
View ArticleBibi To Meet Obama, Putin
The White House announced today that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet President Obama at the White House on November 9. they will discuss boosting military aid to Israel and then engage in...
View ArticlePutin Endorses Trump
I don't know how well it will go over with the neo-cons and the anti-Communist wing of the GOP, but Vladimir Putin is backing Donald Trump. The Russian President told reporters at his annual news...
View ArticleTrump: What If?
Donald Trump has one great advantage over all the other presidential candidates: he has no set of core beliefs. He reminds me of that old Groucho Marx line, "Those are my principles, and if you...
View ArticleTrump-Putin Bromance Scares US Allies
The first question you have to ask about the trove of some 20,000 emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee is "who benefits?" A. Donald Trump and the Republicans B. Vladimir Putin and...
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