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![]() Jackie HajdenbergThe Times of Israel |
JTA — On Wednesday morning, Alfred Moses, 93, sat in a small white armchair at a round wooden table in a Manhattan office building as a historian...
JTA — A new Biblical translation that eschews gendered pronouns for God is now available through Sefaria, the online library of Jewish texts,...
(JTA) — A Russian court extended the pretrial detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich until at least August 30. Gershkovich, 31,...
JTA — For years, a subset of Jews who eat only at kosher-certified restaurants have bent the rules by taking advantage of a growing trend: fully...
JTA — A 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible that is one of the world’s oldest surviving biblical manuscripts sold for $38 million in New York on...
JTA — The Orthodox singer Ishay Ribo, whose music has attracted a diverse audience of religious and secular Israeli fans, will be the first Israeli...
JTA — A charter school in Manhattan that taught Hebrew to a diverse population of students will close at the end of the school year. Families with...
JTA — Jonathan Omer-Man, a rabbi and pioneer in Jewish meditation whose meeting with the Dalai Lama in 1990 was described in Rodger Kamenetz’s...
JTA — The Hadar Institute, an egalitarian Jewish educational institution, has announced that it will open a branch in California, the latest stage...
JTA — At least two American couples have been caught by Israeli customs for attempting to smuggle a total of more than 650 pounds (295 kilograms) of...
JTA — The Western Wall and Jerusalem skyline provided the backdrop for actor Brett Gelman’s proposal to his now-fiancée musician Ari Dayan. The...
JTA — The prize dubbed the “Jewish Nobel” will be going to Barbra Streisand later this year, in a return to its tradition of honoring Jewish...
JTA — In a declaration issued Thursday and stressing the danger of “the open internet without any filter,” more than a dozen rabbis from the...
JTA — The Dutch government is planning to throw open information about 300,000 people investigated for their collaboration with the Nazis, in a move...
TEHRAN, IRAN — A dissident Iranian journalist has been arrested again, barely three months after his release from prison following two years of...
KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian missile hit a museum building in a Ukrainian city on Tuesday, killing one of its workers and wounding 10 other people,...
JTA — The future of Talmud study for women at New York’s Yeshiva University (YU) may be safe, as a recent letter from two deans at YU’s...
JTA — Lee Zeldin, a US Jewish Republican who previously launched a close but failed bid for governor of New York, has endorsed Donald Trump for...
JTA — The Jewish author of best-selling children’s book series “A Series of Unfortunate Events” has been tapped to write a horror film based...
JTA — Before “Say Yes to the Dress” brought Kleinfeld Bridal to the attention of more than 1.5 million households across America every week, a...
JTA — When readers of Mishpacha magazine opened up the Passover issue, they found two surprises. The first was the unsung, mysterious story of a...
JTA — Ahead of Passover 2020 — as life worldwide ground to an abrupt halt in the face of a rapidly spreading pandemic and people faced the specter...
JTA — For millennia, Jews have eaten matzah. And for years, Jewish patrons of Trader Joe’s have been able to purchase matzah off the shelves of...
JTA — Columbia University has announced that it will launch a “Global Center” in Tel Aviv amid dueling letters from faculty supporting and...
JTA — In the midst of writing a 13-page analysis of a complex area of Jewish law, Rabbi Xava De Cordova found something she wasn’t expecting to...
JTA — The annual gala of A Wider Bridge, a Jewish LGBTQ group, had all the trappings of a festive event: Guests arrived in cocktail attire finery...
JTA — When Alyza Lewin became a bat mitzvah in 1977, the fact that she had a ritual ceremony at all was still relatively revolutionary in Orthodox...
JTA — In a scene that will soon stream on Hulu, a group of early Christian bishops gathers to set a promotion strategy for their newish religion —...
JTA — As children in upstate New York, twin sisters Julia DeVillers and Jennifer Roy went to Hebrew school three days a week, spent their summers at...
JTA — Playing saxophone in the sukkah. Discussing Judaism over coffee. Hanging out with his brothers and friends in the basement on Shabbat. These...
JTA — A pair of pants coming up for auction are being described as “holy” — and not just because they’re a little torn. Rather, the pants...
Assembling abortion aftercare kits. A Havdalah ceremony combined with an update on state reproductive rights legislation. Sermons on abortion and...
JTA — The first post on Rivky Hertzel’s Instagram account — which she and her husband signed up for last year ahead of a planned move to Zambia...
JTA — Mayyim Hayyim, a pluralistic community mikveh, or ritual bath, in the US city of Boston, is putting a pause on ritual immersions and classes...
JTA — Jewish US comedian Mordechi Rosenfeld insists that the recent Variety article in which he reveals he is married to a man is not a “coming...
JTA — Thousands of women who serve as Chabad emissaries gathered this week in Brooklyn for a conference that’s meant to provide a mix of...
JTA — “Hi, my name is Dan. I’m 11-years-old and I like doing magic and circus skills, especially unicycling. I’m here today to testify against...
JTA — A forecasted low of -16 degrees Fahrenheit (-9 Celsius) in the Twin Cities on Thursday had the stage set perfectly for two frozen Jewish...
Americans subscribed to Amazon Prime Video can now listen to never-before-heard recordings of Adolf Eichmann confessing to his crimes, in his own...
JTA — Werner Reich had his opening line ready when he sat down for B.A. Van Sise to take his portrait. “Before I could say anything, he said,...
(JTA) — Five rabbis from multiple Jewish denominations are among more than a dozen Missouri faith leaders challenging the state’s ban on abortion....
JTA — Binya Kóatz remembers the first time she saw a woman wearing tzitzit. While attending Friday night services at a Jewish Renewal synagogue in...
JTA — Just a few years into her comedy career, Lisa Geduldig was invited to perform standup at the Peking Garden Club near Northampton,...
JTA — Hanukkah may be considered a “minor holiday,” as rabbis will say, but its resonance and unique traditions offer a great window into Jewish...
JTA — Two weeks after a Trump-supporting heckler threw a beer can at Ariel Elias at a club in New Jersey over her politics, the Jewish comedian’s...
JTA — Naftuli Moster, the founder and former executive director of Yaffed, the advocacy group focused on improving secular education in Haredi...
JTA — Nearly seven months after they were denied boarding in Frankfurt, a group of more than 100 Hasidic Lufthansa passengers are getting paid for...
JTA — Four and a half feet of snow had just fallen on East Aurora, New York, but Kim Kaiser and her fellow volunteers from Jewish Family Services of...
JTA — Six months after a lawsuit claimed that he mishandled an allegation of sexual assault between campers at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires, the...