February 21, 2014

WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum’s tale of two cities

With Kiev in flames, it’s hard not to notice the stark contrasts between Jan Koum’s Ukrainian birthplace and his current Silicon Valley surroundings.

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Elsewhere: Arab Spring’s scapegoats, Virginia prayer plea, haredi wedding photos

JTA rounds up noteworthy items from the Web.

Seeking Kin: A cookbook’s jottings prompt a woman’s search

A Maryland woman purchases a Hungarian kosher cookbook that made it through the Holocaust to be given as a gift in a displaced persons camp.

Culture

Connecting a 100-year-old woman and her father’s 300-year-old violin

United States

Judith Butler cancels Jewish Museum talk over Israel controversy

United States

Ramaz, Orthodox Manhattan high school, nixes Rashid Khalidi talk

Global

Jerusalem disavows ambassador’s defense of Belarus political arrest

Global

Vandals destroy copies of Anne Frank’s diary in Japan

Global

Greek prosecutors seek to lift immunity from remaining Golden Dawn lawmakers

Global

Businesses say Swiss firm falsely promised Jewish access

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