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![]() Philissa CramerThe Times of Israel |
JTA — For the first time, a US state has officially adopted a definition of anti-Semitism that has ignited debates worldwide over the extent to...
CAIRO, Egypt — The World Health Organization said Monday that only around one percent of the Middle East region’s population had received a first...
JTA — Alena Lee, a meteorologist at Kansas City’s KCTV5, has a tradition: Every Saturday night, she features a pet submitted by a local viewer to...
JTA — Rod Ponton, a small-town attorney from Texas, captured America’s attention this week after he showed up to a virtual courtroom looking like...
JTA — Tobin Mitnick may be a comic actor, but his interest in trees is no joke. Mitnick has been documenting his love affair with trees since...
JTA — How well are the world’s most prominent social media companies rooting out Holocaust denial on their platforms? Not at all, the...
(JTA) — A prominent Jewish doctor in Boston died this week while attempting a challenging ascent in the mountains of Pakistan. Alex Goldfarb, an...
JTA — As Jordan Hersh watched on TV as supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol building January 6, he had a thought that was...
JTA — Jon Ossoff, a Jewish 33-year-old former executive of a documentary film company, has done what seemed nearly impossible just a few years ago:...
JTA — Israel is making headlines for its response to COVID-19 — again. Early on in the pandemic, Israel was lauded for its tough lockdown...
JTA — The vice chair of Massachusetts’ Republican Party — and of its Republican Jewish group — says he’s pretty sure he contracted COVID-19...
JTA — Back in the spring, when Jewish camps all canceled their summer sessions seemingly overnight, Rabbi Shayna Golkow knew she wanted to do...
JTA — Jewish groups in Quebec are expressing dismay after the province announced a plan to allow small gatherings at Christmas but said gatherings...
JTA — Weeks after one prominent mass Satmar wedding was publicly called off amid a backlash over convening guests during the pandemic, members of...
JTA — Alex Trebek, the beloved baritone host of “Jeopardy!,” died of pancreatic cancer Sunday at 80. In his 36 years as host of the immensely...
JTA — Al Gross, the Jewish doctor whose challenge to Alaska’s Republican senator attracted deep support from across the United States, is lagging...
JTA — Two Jewish moderate Democrats in the House of Representatives — Elaine Luria in Virginia and Elissa Slotkin in Michigan — have narrowly...
JTA — A report by Louisville, Kentucky, high school students has drawn national attention to local police training materials that quoted Adolf...
JTA — Among the relics up for sale in a forthcoming Sotheby’s auction are two Torah shields that the auction house is calling “the most...
JTA — The forthcoming TV adaptation of a Marvel comic series about a rabbi’s son who leaves religion for a life of vigilante justice could star an...
JTA — “BREAKING,” tweeted Mishpacha, a magazine for Orthodox Jews, Saturday night about a letter signed by 13 leading Orthodox rabbis...
JTA — When Alex Goldstein first set out to memorialize Americans who died of COVID-19, he was overwhelmed by the vastness of the task ahead. That...
JTA — A US principal in Florida who told a parent he “can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event” will be rehired after a vote...
JTA — The first time 6-year-old Bibi Shapiro found out just how widely viewed the video of him singing “Avinu Malkeinu” had been, he was sitting...
JTA — A Melbourne, Australia, pilot took to the skies with three chickens Sunday to carry out a pre-Yom Kippur ritual that was otherwise off-limits...
JTA — The day after Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the widely cherished Supreme Court justice, died at 87, her fans gathered for impromptu memorial services...
JTA — Rabbi Matt Soffer was leaving his synagogue on Friday evening after leading Rosh Hashanah services alone for a congregation following along...
(JTA) — When the pandemic began, Alex Edelman was in the middle of a standup comedy tour of the United Kingdom, where he was performing a show based...