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![]() Andrew LapinThe Times of Israel |
JTA — Over more than a decade, Rabbi Michael Harvey built a reputation for himself as a Jewish spiritual leader who talks freely and openly to...
JTA — An embattled Orthodox feminist group has commissioned an external review of its “workplace and board culture,” weeks after multiple former...
JTA — Some of the biggest Jewish names on Broadway weren’t shining so bright in this year’s Tony nominations. The much-anticipated revival of...
(JTA) – During his campaign for a state House seat, Michigan Republican nominee Robert “RJ” Regan had told local outlets that, “My words...
JTA — Elisabeth Finch claimed to have survived a rare and fatal form of cancer. She claimed to have had a life-threatening abortion and a kidney...
JTA — Bupkis — meaning nothing, absolutely zilch — is one of those few Yiddish words that have become part of the American lexicon. It’s also...
JTA — For years, the editorial board of the Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper at Harvard University, has declined to back the movement to...
KYIV, Ukraine — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced his arrival in Kyiv on Wednesday following talks in Moscow with Russian President...
JTA — The 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova died near her home in Mariupol, Ukraine, April 4, while the city was under a...
JTA – Late in HBO’s new movie, “The Survivor,” star Ben Foster’s character has a moment of deep self-awareness. Foster, playing real-life...
JTA — Orrin Hatch, who died Saturday at the age of 88 from complications from a stroke after a lengthy political career that made him the...
JTA — Two groups associated with Conservative Judaism called the allegations against a Cleveland-area rabbi arrested for soliciting underage sex...
JTA — The US Supreme Court ruled that heirs to a German Jewish art dealer could use the American court system to reclaim a valuable painting their...
JTA — A Muslim student group at American University was set to co-sponsor an interfaith seder and Iftar event this week with the campus Hillel...
JTA — Marvin Chomsky often relayed one searing memory from the set of his 1978 miniseries “Holocaust.” While shooting sequences in Austria to...
JTA — A university in Oregon that fired a Jewish professor last year after he accused the school’s president of making antisemitic comments...
JTA — That’s one way to “never forget.” A peculiar item of clothing went viral online this week after a comedian tweeted about a pair of...
JTA — Jewish actor Liev Schreiber will play Anne Frank’s father Otto in a new Disney limited series, the latest dramatization of the Frank...
JTA — Bat Sheva Marcus, the prominent Orthodox sex therapist whose history of alleged abuse broke into public view this week, has resigned from the...
JTA — For years, two former executive directors of a pioneering group for Orthodox Jewish feminists believed that they had been retaliated against...
JTA — A new Boston-based foundation dedicated to Holocaust memory plans to build the city’s first Holocaust museum. The Holocaust Legacy...
JTA – Hebrew Union College will officially stop ordaining rabbis in Cincinnati, the Ohio city where the Reform seminary was founded in 1875. The...
JTA — Mayim Bialik has become arguably the most visible Jewish face on TV, thanks to her gig hosting “Jeopardy!” and her presence on...
JTA — Very few actors, living or dead, could claim to have the career of Nehemiah Persoff. The Israeli-born performer, who died Tuesday from heart...
JTA — It’s Jew vs. Santa Claus — and 48 others — in Alaska’s carnivalesque special election for the US House of Representatives. Al Gross, a...
(JTA) – When the rabbi at the center of January’s synagogue hostage standoff first encountered the stranger who would soon hold him at gunpoint,...
JTA — Princeton University spent months planning an exhibit of 19th-century American Jewish art before canceling the show because two of its...
JTA – Legislation to restrict race education in the Ohio schools was panned as a “draconian Holocaust censorship bill” after one of the bill’s...
JTA — The Oscars went on as usual Sunday night — although you wouldn’t know it from the morning-after conversation. A violent altercation...
JTA – A new museum about the history of Hollywood will have a permanent exhibition devoted to the contributions of Jews after early criticism that...
JTA — Iowa’s governor signed bills into law this week codifying a definition of antisemitism for the state and restricting state business with...
JTA — Since 1875, Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati has been minting Reform rabbis — but it may not for much longer. The board of directors for...
JTA — An academic professional organization devoted to international study of the Arab world and Israel has voted to endorse boycotting Israel, in a...
JTA — Before the hero of “Ahed’s Knee,” an Israeli filmmaker known only as “Y,” can screen one of his movies in a public library in an...
JTA — In 2016, Colorado’s state pension fund passed a law pledging economic loyalty to Israel. That law is now being invoked as the state becomes...
JTA — When West Virginia lawmakers opened a discussion about proposed “critical race theory” legislation on March 7, it didn’t take long...
JTA — A Jewish Google employee who tried to pressure the company to end a contract to build cloud-based data centers for the Israeli government says...
ANN ARBOR, Michigan (JTA) — Like many American universities today, the University of Michigan wants its community to know that it is committed to...
JTA — After being condemned by his party, the Republican nominee for a Michigan state House seat said he is “not antisemitic” despite sharing...
JTA – Five years after raising the age limit for Israel tour participants, Birthright Israel is reverting to a policy of funding free trips only to...
JTA — Robert Regan, the Republican nominee for a safely conservative state House seat in Michigan, has frequently re-posted antisemitic content and...
CAIRO, Egypt — Radwa Helmi made history on Saturday as the first woman judge to sit on the bench of Egypt’s State Council, a top court in the Arab...
JTA — A best-selling children’s novel that the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum has said “should be avoided by anyone who studies or teaches about...
Ukraine on Wednesday invited the worried mothers of Russian troops captured on the battlefield to come and collect their sons, in an apparent attempt...
JTA – The University of Washington won’t actually have to curb its Israel studies program after giving back a $5 million gift to a donor who was...
JTA – A brand-new, $50 million campus. A month in Israel every year. And a program to help students turn their social-service ideas into fully...
JTA — Duke University’s student government granted recognition to a Zionist student group, reversing an earlier decision that had provoked the ire...
JTA — Steven Spielberg’s remake of “West Side Story” drew seven Oscar nominations Tuesday, including best picture and best director....