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September 30th, 2015 
Awake Goy (JTA) — Officials in Spain will begin reviewing citizenship applications by some 4,500 individuals who identified themselves as descendants of Sephardic Jews, the country’s Jewish communities said.
The review is set to begin Friday following the parliament’s adoption earlier this year of a law granting citizenship to the descendants, as well as a related amendment, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain, or FCJE, said in a statement it sent out Wednesday.
A decree on the law scheduled to be published next week does not require applicants to renounce other nationalities, FCJE said.
Under the law approved in June, applicants need not travel to Spain, as proposed in previous amendments that did not pass, but must hire a Spanish notary and pass tests on the Spanish language and history, the Spanish daily El Pais reported.
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Foxman will be a distinguished nonresident fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, the organization announced in a news release sent Wednesday.
He will work on “issues of combating anti-Semitism and assaults on the state of Israel,” according to the release. Foxman will perform research on Israeli-American relations, as well as the ties between Israeli and Diaspora Jews.
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(JTA) — Four American Jews have been named John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellows.
Princeton University historian Marina Rustow, novelist Ben Lerner, health care entrepreneur Gary Cohen and New York-based visual artist Nicole Eisenman each received the so-called “genius grants” of $625,000 on Tuesday.
Rustow, 46, researches Jewish life in the Medieval Middle East. Her 2008 book “Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate” upturned notions of how Jews lived under the Islamic Fatimid Caliphate, suggesting a higher level of tolerance and cooperation than had been assumed.
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Sergey Andreev says he had no intention of offending Polish nation; ‘I regret that I wasn’t sufficiently precise’
September 28, 2015, 4:23 pm
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Russia’s ambassador to Poland has partly backtracked from an accusation that Poland bears some blame for starting World War II because of its policies in the 1930s, words that outraged Poles.
Sergey Andreev said Monday he had no intention of offending the Polish nation and added: “I regret that I wasn’t sufficiently precise.”
He spoke to reporters after being summoned to the Foreign Ministry following comments in a TV interview Friday that sparked the uproar.
World War II began after Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sealed a secret pact in 1939 to divide up Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe. Millions of Polish citizens died in the conflict.
Andreev on Friday described Soviet actions under dictator Josef Stalin as an act of self-defense, not aggression.
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