Neither nation has a history of being good to Jews. There's now one interesting bit being discussed. It seems, just before the Russian invasion, a miraculous set of anti-semitic attacks happened in the Crimea and Russia was quick to blame neo-Nazis. However, the local Jews have a different opinion. As pointed out in a Daily Beast article, the Jews ( Read more... )

As Haaretz points out, five of the seven Nobel winners announced so far are Jews. One's Israeli. We're talking about less than 14 million Jews and less than 8 million Israelis ( Read more... )

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1047639.htmlRead more... )

I know, rare. Still, since they're not involved, at least the story is fairly funny.

An article in the JPost says the Catholic Church is upset. There's a building in Jerusalem controlled by a Jewish organization that's trying to renovate it. Originally, the building was a monastery, and the Church lost control of it in the 15th Century ( Read more... )

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1008704.html

The Pentagon finally admitted that it put an engineer on leave and investigated him as a spy for only one reason. You see, he's an Orthodox Jew. That was enough for the Army brass to figure he must be a spy for Israel.