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JTA’s 10 most-read stories of 2016
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, or JTA, is one of the wire services (like Reuters) which SA Jewish Report subscribes to. It is the largest Jewish news service globally. They are US-based and tend to cover Israeli and American Jewish news, views and politics, with a smattering of World Jewish News.
ANT KATZ with GABE FRIEDMAN
“Jewish 2016 was a particularly captivating chapter in the Jewish story,” wrote Gabe Friedman in his introduction to Top-Ten JTA stories of the year. The year was marked by the unexpected rise of Donald Trump, he says, which “frightened some Jews and emboldened others.”
Gabe also refers to the numerous leading historical Jewish figures who died in the year, “and the US-Israel relationship repeatedly made headlines.”
The list below are the ten most-read stories on JTA’s website in 2016, followed by a picture illustrating four of them – and, finally, a nog-a-pip of the three that just didn’t make the list – numbers eleven to thirteen.
The Top-Ten are in no particular order and range from an account of a Jewish transgender man becoming a father, to Kirk Douglas’ 100th birthday party to a side-by-side comparison of the presidential candidates’ Jewish sons-in-law.
JTA’s Top-Ten list…
- Transgender Jew gives birth and embraces life as a single ‘abba’
- World’s oldest man, 113, to celebrate bar mitzvah 100 years late
- Bannon: 5 things Jews need to know about Trump’s chief strategist
- Dustin Hoffman breaks down after discovering his Jewish history
- Trump vs. Clinton: Battle of the Jewish sons-in-law
- Jewish cancer patient finds marrow donor after global search, Kardashian’s pitch
- John Kasich links Jesus’ blood to Pesach at Chasidic matzah bakery
- Kirk Douglas celebrates 100th in star-studded Beverly Hills bash
- A Florida rabbi protested Donald Trump – and lost his job
- When ‘Hamilton’ creator Lin-Manuel Miranda sang in Hebrew
Story continues below picture…
ABOVE: Clockwise, from top left: Yisrael Kristal, the world’s oldest man; transgender man Rafi Daugherty; Kim Kardashian; Dustin Hoffman tearing up on “Finding Your Roots.”
And now, the special bonus round: The three articles didn’t get quite as many page views — but the JTA audience spent a considerable amount of time reading them:
- Matzah balls to footballs, Jewish brothers recall their journey to NFL
- Meet the Jews in Donald Trump’s inner circle
- Modern Orthodox dating gets a close-up in new web series
Related reads JR Online Top-Reads series:
- Top-Reads, Issues on JR Online during 2016
- The Top-35 reads of 2016 with links
- JTA’s 13 most-read stories with links