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![]() Shira HanauThe Times of Israel |
JTA — Advocates for improving secular studies in Hasidic yeshivas are getting an assist from an unlikely place: the federal case of a Hasidic man...
JTA — When Lloyd Wolf heard the long blast from a shofar at the Jan. 6 Stop the Steal protest, the photographer was determined to find the source....
JTA — On Jan. 7, one day after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, the 5 Towns Jewish Times, a weekly newspaper catering to the large Orthodox...
JTA — The son of a New York judge and former president of the National Council of Young Israel, an Orthodox synagogue association that has been...
Heshy Tischler, the pro-Trump provocateur of Orthodox Brooklyn, wasn’t at the US Capitol when a mob stormed it Wednesday — but not because he...
JTA — An anonymous Twitter account that mooed at anti-Semitic tweeters, then quit the platform, returned Monday night to take the US social media...
JTA — New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, won’t participate in the investigation into ParCare, the network of health clinics under...
JTA — Even after the candles burned out on the last night of Hanukkah, when the dreidels were put away and the gelt long since eaten, Jews were...
JTA — In Israel, as in the United States, haredi Orthodox communities have been hard hit by the coronavirus. Now new data from the Ministry of...
JTA — A federal court of appeals ruled that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s capacity limits on houses of worship in areas with rising COVID-19 cases...
JTA — Rabbi Hershel Schachter, a leading US Modern Orthodox rabbi who received a COVID-19 vaccine Thursday at a clinic now under investigation for...
JTA — After health clinics that serve a number of ultra-Orthodox communities in New York appeared to have administered COVID-19 vaccines to members...
JTA — Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum, leader of a faction of the US Satmar Hasidic community, has tested positive for COVID-19, Yeshiva World News reported...
JTA — A network of health clinics owned by an ultra-Orthodox man and serving a number of ultra-Orthodox communities in Brooklyn and upstate New York...
JTA — Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin, a pioneer in the world of Orthodox Jewish feminism who experienced personal tragedy later in life, died Wednesday...
JTA — Rutgers University will name a residence hall after the late US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ginsburg, who died in September...
(JTA) — It happens more often than you’d think. Someone mistakenly puts a ring, a wallet or a purse in the trash and assumes it’s gone forever....
JTA — For the second time in three weeks, the US Supreme Court indicated Tuesday that state governments may not restrict religious gatherings more...
JTA — Officials in the Chicago area are struggling to uncover whether an Orthodox Jewish wedding that violated public health restrictions led to...
JTA — When Danielle Kranjec committed to using only Jewish texts written by women and queer people in the classes she taught for Hillel...
JTA — When a masked man entered a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, on the seventh night of Hanukkah last year, Joseph Gluck thought quickly. He...
JTA — 2020 has one thing going for it: This year’s Hanukkah messages from the United States’ top leaders were ample, and for the first time...
JTA — Large crowds gathered Monday afternoon for the funeral of a beloved Hasidic rabbi in Williamsburg, home to the Satmar Hasidic community in...
JTA — There’s a long history of Jewish artists releasing parody songs for Hanukkah, but this year’s most catchy addition to the holiday canon...
JTA — In the more than 30 years that Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel has worked at Agudath Israel, an umbrella organization and advocacy group...
Jeff Zients, who will head next administration’s COVID response, runs brand that sells bagels, smoked salmon, whitefish salad, black and white...
JTA — After one massive wedding that was scaled back under pressure and another that went off in secret, one of the most important leaders of the...
JTA — Staci Zimmerman’s in-laws had planned to fly in from Los Angeles to visit her and her family in Denver for Thanksgiving. But when COVID...
JTA — When Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann and her colleagues gathered in a backyard earlier this month to sing together, they knew it would likely be the...
JTA — Jewish schools and other private schools in New York City will remain open even as the city shutters its public school buildings starting...
JTA — At the end of the annual conference of Chabad emissaries from around the world, they typically take a giant group photograph in front of the...
JTA — After several challenges to pandemic-induced restrictions on houses of worship citing religious liberty, an Orthodox Jewish advocacy group is...
JTA — It wasn’t always easy for Ellie Klein Goldman and Caroline Dorn to keep their identities secret. Especially the many times they were sent...
JTA — Ice Cube, Jon Voight and Miriam Adelson are just a few of the speakers set to headline the annual gala of the Zionist Organization of America...
JTA — Mazel tovs rung out over the dunes of Dubai. Just weeks after the normalization of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates,...
JTA — Joel Kolko, a Brooklyn rabbi who was accused of molesting students at the yeshiva where he taught for years, died of COVID-19 while in Israel,...
JTA — Parts of New York City borough of Brooklyn that had high COVID-19 test positivity rates in early October, including some with large Orthodox...
JTA — The messages casting doubt on the election results started circulating among Orthodox Jewish social media accounts in the US by Wednesday...
JTA — When Rabbi David Seidenberg wrote a prayer for the presidential election in 2004, he wanted it to be usable by people on both sides of the...
WASHINGTON, United States — US President Donald Trump said he felt good about his chances for victory as election day opened Tuesday, predicting...
JTA — Rayne Lunger had known for some time that many in her community supported Donald Trump for United States president. But it was just in the...
JTA — After weeks of closures, schools in parts of New York with relatively high COVID-19 rates, including several that are home to large Orthodox...
JTA — The doctor burst into public view in the pandemic’s early days, vaulting from behind the scenes to the front lines of a crisis bringing his...
JTA — A leader of a major Hasidic sect denounced protests earlier this month where local Orthodox Jews voiced their anger at lockdown measures...
JTA — When Jacob Reich heard that Orthodox Jews would be staging a rally near his home to support US President Donald Trump this weekend, just 10...
JTA — While a majority of Orthodox Jews are expected to vote for Donald Trump in next week’s US presidential election, a well-respected Israeli...
JTA — There may be virtually no chance that Donald Trump could win New York State in the presidential election. But that’s not stopping his...
JTA — Some Orthodox neighborhoods classified as “red zones” by the state of New York due to their high COVID-19 test positivity rates in recent...