http://jta.org/news/ en marcus@infolink.com.br Copyright 2009 2009-11-22T22:02:00-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/2006/10/25/14597/BenjaminMeedwhow http://jta.org/site/BenjaminMeedwhow/#When:04:00:01Z Benjamin Meed, a key figure in spreading awareness of the Holocaust in the United States, died Tuesday in New York at age 88 after a long illness. 2006-10-25T04:00:01-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/2006/10/24/14584/Extensivelyupdated http://jta.org/site/Extensivelyupdated/#When:04:00:01Z Issuing their first updated edition in more than 30 years, the editors of the Encyclopaedia Judaica’s new edition confronted a whole new world. 2006-10-24T04:00:01-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/2006/01/24/13641/IndonesiahonorsJew http://jta.org/site/IndonesiahonorsJew/#When:04:00:01Z Officials in Indonesia, a mostly Muslim country, have honored the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for its tsunami relief efforts. 2006-01-24T04:00:01-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/2005/05/17/12833/Itsbackpacksandp http://jta.org/site/Itsbackpacksandp/#When:04:00:01Z The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is rebuilding and upgrading children's parks and playgrounds in Sri Lanka that were destroyed by the tsunami that roared through on Dec. 26 2005-05-17T04:00:01-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/2005/01/11/12346/Jewishgroupvisits http://jta.org/site/Jewishgroupvisits/#When:04:00:01Z The American Jewish World Service was among 19 groups invited to the White House to discuss tsunami relief efforts with President Bush. 2005-01-11T04:00:01-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/2004/12/07/12251/Afterangerfromani http://jta.org/site/Afterangerfromani/#When:04:00:01Z The Orthodox Union is promising to institute changes at a kosher slaughterhouse it supervises following complaints from a strident animal rights group about the way the slaughterhouse kills cows. 2004-12-07T04:00:01-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/2004/09/07/11917/AtUSOpenkosher http://jta.org/site/AtUSOpenkosher/#When:04:00:01Z Years after a few baseball stadiums added kosher food stands to their culinary options, tennis fans at the U.S. Open can finally chow down on glatt kosher corned beef and knishes. 2004-09-07T04:00:01-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/2004/07/06/11707/Jewishgroupsstepu http://jta.org/site/Jewishgroupsstepu/#When:04:00:01Z Jewish groups are stepping up efforts to stop the killing of black Muslims by government-sponsored Arab militias in Sudan. 2004-07-06T04:00:01-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/2004/04/20/11467/JayLitvindiesat6 http://jta.org/site/JayLitvindiesat6/#When:04:00:01Z Jay Litvin, a leader of a group that helped children who became ill from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, died of cancer at the age of 60. 2004-04-20T04:00:01-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/2003/12/23/11070/Activistscreateas http://jta.org/site/Activistscreateas/#When:04:00:01Z A group of women in owl costumes dished out "anti-awards" to several major Jewish organizations for their "sins," such as sexism and homophobia. 2003-12-23T04:00:01-05:00