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JTA – In a rare comment on internal Israeli politics, the umbrella organisation for local Jewish federations is urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to drop one...
JTA – Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor who became a pro-Israel favourite during her two years as the Trump administration’s ambassador to the United...
JTA – When disability activist Lily Brasch was asked if she would walk the runway as a model for New York Fashion Week, she didn’t know...
JTA – An Israeli parliamentary committee voted to advance parts of the government’s proposed judicial reform on Monday, 13 February, as tens of thousands of Israelis...
JTA – Israel is sending aid to Turkey and Syria in the wake of two earthquakes on 6 February, one 7.8 and one 7.5 in magnitude,...
JTA – After initially sounding the all clear in the hours after a devastating earthquake on Monday, 6 February, the Turkish Jewish community now says that...
JTA – When Yad Vashem was created in 1953 on the slopes of Jerusalem’s Mount of Remembrance to commemorate the Holocaust, its founders understood that one...
JTA – A recent study of the Dutch population conducted by the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany showed an alarming lack of education about...
JTA – The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical drama about his Jewish upbringing, had an expected strong haul of Oscar nominations, picking up seven nods on Tuesday,...
JTA – For Jewish sports fans, 2022 was a year of very high highs and particularly low lows. Autumn was dominated by an antisemitism scandal involving...
JTA – Heirs of a German-Jewish banker are suing a Japanese insurance company for the return of one of Vincent van Gogh’s famed Sunflowers or at...
JTA – Lithuania’s parliament passed a law this week to set aside more than €37 million (R675 million) as restitution for Holocaust survivors and their heirs....
JTA – Just a few years ago, Oman was expected to be next in line after Morocco, Sudan, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates to sign...
JTA – When her son was diagnosed with autism, Ali Sultman was faced with a difficult choice. To give him the Jewish education her family believed...
JTA – Bill Harris, a veteran Los Angeles photojournalist, didn’t think much of it when one morning in 2012, he woke up and found a tiny...
JTA – After a “traditional, religious” Jewish childhood in Brooklyn where he attended yeshiva, Barry Rosen fell in love with Iran. Rosen was 22 when he...
JTA – On a snowy day in 2003, Lélia Picabia received a postcard at her Paris home. Mysteriously, it contained only the first names of four...
JTA – It would be difficult to debate what Steven Spielberg’s “most Jewish” film has been after a career with highlights such as Schindler’s List and...
JTA – Patagonia, Argentina’s famously beautiful southern region, has been a haven for Israeli backpackers, vacationers from Buenos Aires and, in the 20th century, Nazi war...
JTA – Stralsund, Germany, a charming medieval city nestled into the country’s Baltic coast, appears an unlikely setting for a reunion of an extended family torn...
JTA – The city of Erfurt in central Germany is home to an impeccably restored medieval synagogue made possible because local Jews had been expelled long...
JTA – Naftuli Moster, the founder and former executive director of Yaffed, the advocacy group focused on improving secular education in haredi orthodox Jewish schools, is...
JTA – At one point in John Boyne’s new novel All The Broken Places, a 91-year-old German woman recalls, for the first time, her encounter with...
JTA – This year’s slate of Jewish Grammy nominees offers a little something for everyone. The nominees for the 2023 Grammy Awards, announced on 15 November,...
JTA – The Palestinian American journalist killed while reporting on an Israeli military raid on a West Bank refugee camp was probably shot by the Israeli...
JTA – Lufthansa apologised for kicking identifiably Jewish people off a flight from New York City to Budapest last week after some Hasidic individuals on the...
JTA – Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz last week responded to the draft United States Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe vs. Wade, saying, “A...
(JTA) Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he was ready to “remove obstacles” to renewing ties with the United States, apparently signalling a willingness to stop...
(JTA) In the late 1800s, the Ottoman Empire was seeking to conscript men into its army, including the several thousand young Jewish ones who were living...
