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![]() Shira HanauThe Times of Israel |
JTA — The United States Postal Service released a new series of Forever stamps Friday in honor of Shel Silverstein, the Jewish author and...
JTA — A security guard at a Jewish day school in Columbus, Ohio, was arrested last week and charged with making terrorist threats against the...
JTA — Prayers for peace are an integral part of Jewish worship. Now, they are also a central part of the communal Jewish response as fighting is...
JTA — Residents of Colleyville, Texas, the community where a rabbi and three of his congregants were held hostage for 12 hours at the local...
JTA — When it came to babka, actress Kathryn Kates, who died last month at 73, preferred chocolate, according to The New York Times. But when...
PARIS, France — Iran has days left to accept a deal on its nuclear program at talks in Vienna, France said on Wednesday, warning that a major...
JTA — A parent of a child at a Jewish day school in North Miami Beach was arrested after saying he wanted to “burn this school to the f***ing...
JTA — Over 100 students at a West Virginia public high school staged a walkout Wednesday to protest what they said was their forced attendance at...
JTA — Jared Armstrong traveled to Israel on Birthright last year. He also spent months studying with an American conservative rabbi in order to...
JTA — The first thing to know about the Yeshiva Har Torah Twitter account is that, contrary to the account’s bio, the head of school does know...
New York Jewish Week via JTA — Try to come up with the most Jewish spice out there and you might have some trouble answering. But ask Ori Zohar...
JTA — Avram Goldberg, who alongside his wife led the regional supermarket chain Stop & Shop for years before being forced out during a hostile...
JTA — Thomas Massie, a US House representative from Kentucky, criticized Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and...
JTA — Swastikas and other symbols of hate were on display amid a sea of Canadian flags as part of the Canadian “Freedom Convoy” protests...
JTA — A Nobel Prize in Chemistry won by a man who was saved from the Holocaust by the Kindertransport was sold at auction last week for $457,531....
JTA — A full-page advertisement in The New York Times on Saturday urged athletes and corporate sponsors to “walk away” from the Winter Olympic...
JTA — Among the most challenging decisions Lili Rosen had to make while translating a children’s book about sexuality into Yiddish was what name...
JTA — TikTok announced a raft of new features intended to reduce the spread of misinformation about the Holocaust shared on the platform and to...
JTA — Items from the late Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s library are being sold at online auction this week and include a range of...
JTA — The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston will return a 17th-century painting in its collection to the heirs of a Jewish collector from whom the...
JTA — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. compared what he sees as threats to human life from 5G, vaccine passports and “low-orbit satellites” to the threat...
JTA — Rabbi Simcha Krauss, a leading figure of Modern Orthodox Judaism who was a forceful advocate for women’s rights within Orthodoxy, died...
JTA — Jon Stewart, who has often referenced his Jewish heritage in his humor, will be awarded this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, one...
JTA — Jewish fashion designer Rachel Antonoff is known for the quirky and innovative ways she displays her creations — think a staged science fair...
JTA — Two non-Jewish members of Congress announced the formation of the Congressional Caucus for the Advancement of Torah Values on Wednesday in...
JTA — A Jewish couple is suing Tennessee’s Department of Children’s Services after a Christian adoption agency that receives state funding...
JTA — For most of the Shabbat services streamed from Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, over the course of the past two years, only a...
JTA — Rabbi Israel “Sy” Dresner, who demonstrated with Martin Luther King Jr. and was sometimes called the “most arrested rabbi in America,”...
JTA — The University of Michigan Board of Regents fired the school’s president, Mark Schlissel, over an alleged relationship he conducted with...
JTA — That Ivy League schools placed quotas on the number of Jews admitted to their classes through much of the first half of the 20th century...
JTA — The Association of Gulf Jewish Communities (AGJC), an organization that works to foster Jewish life in the Gulf states, will launch a...
JTA — In his Rosh Hashanah call with Jewish leaders last year, US President Joe Biden called for a “swift confirmation” for Deborah Lipstadt,...
JTA — Sandra Jaffe, a Jewish woman who, along with her husband, ran one of the most vaunted jazz clubs in New Orleans for decades and integrated...
(JTA) — In recent years, some “Harry Potter” fans have reconsidered their love for the series in light of the controversy surrounding its author...
JTA — Amar’e Stoudemire told his Instagram followers recently that he’s looking for a new partner, saying he’s ready for a “shidduch.”...
JTA — After moving his inauguration ceremony to Saturday night to accommodate his Shabbat-observant supporters and later canceling the event...
JTA — Shirley Zussman, a pioneering sex therapist who, along with her gynecologist husband, was among the early practitioners of sex therapy...
JTA — Shimon Peres may have never lived on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, but soon the late Israeli president will have a New York City street...
JTA — An irreverent, heartfelt obituary for a Jewish mother took off across the internet on Wednesday. “A plus-sized Jewish lady redneck died in...
JTA — Henry Orenstein, a Holocaust survivor who went on to invent the Transformers toys and became a major donor to Jewish and Israeli causes,...
JTA — Jeff Garlin will not return to the ABC comedy “The Goldbergs” after an investigation into his alleged misconduct on the show’s set. The...
JTA — New York mayor-elect Eric Adams will delay his public inauguration ceremony by several hours on Saturday, January 1, to accommodate his...
JTA — It’s a Christmas miracle: Shlomo the Pig will be spending Christmas in Miami after all. Shlomo was one of four pigs given a new lease on...
JTA — Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, one of the top Haredi rabbinical authorities in Israel, and his family have received threats from anti-vaxxers after...
JTA — A professor in Gaza whom the New York Times profiled as “calmly teaching Israeli poetry” has in fact derided Israeli poems in class,...
JTA — The Interior Ministry denied an application for citizenship from a Ugandan convert to Judaism again, despite a ruling earlier this year...
JTA — Programs of Jewish study that break with the gender-segregated traditions of the Orthodox yeshiva are coming to Chicago and Washington, DC....
(JTA) — Just days after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a vaccine mandate for employees of private schools — including religious...