WASHINGTON (JTA) -- A political action committee preparing the ground for a Hillary Rodham Clinton run for the presidency launched a Jewish outreach.
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Linda Gradstein/The Media Line Israel’s 120-seat parliament today chose long-time Likud member Reuven Rivlin as the country’s next president wh
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By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line Israel has no constitution. The reason, according to local lore, is that the secular majority and the ultra-Orth
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The oldest man alive of record has passed at 111. Alexander Imich was a Holocaust survivor born in Poland in 1903 who lived through a Soviet Gulag and
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(JTA) -- Eitan Green, a Solomon Schechter day school alumnus from Needham, Mass., was among six hikers killed on Mount Rainier.Green, an experienced m
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TORONTO (JTA) -- A Canadian judge has invalidated the will of a man who bequeathed his estate to a U.S. neo-Nazi group. A court in New Brunswick ru
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The new Palestinian unity government brought together rivals Hamas and Fatah, but it has opened a
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(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) As a sign of respect for observant Jews, the start time of the Rolling Stones June 4 concert in Tel Aviv has been
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(JNS.org) Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas swore in a new unity government on Monday following an agreement between Abbas’s Fatah p
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Tuesday night marks the beginning of Shavuot, a holiday at which the story of Ruth, the Moabite convert and considered one of the greatest heroines of
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With the reality of another failed round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks sinking in for American leftist Zionist groups, many of these organization
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By Alina Dain Sharon, JNS.org During the same weekend, the fatal shooting at a Jewish museum in Brussels and the surge of right-wing part
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The Times of Israel reports that the Polish government has expanded the parameters for Polish survivors of Nazi persecution who are eligible for month
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While most of us are aware that today is Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day), the Israeli holiday that commemorates the reunification of Jerusalem in
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA World News BRUSSELS (JTA) -- Hunched over a small island of memorial candles for the victims of the attack on the Jewish Museu
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As the death toll now reaches four in Saturday's shooting at the Brussels Jewish Museum, some security experts are now saying that evidence from the a
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Approximately 15,000 pounds of hummus-related products have been recalled by major food label Lansal Inc. (better known as Hot Mama's Foods) due to a
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By Michael Gerson, The Washington Post Several years ago, I attended the bar mitzvah of a friend’s son. Uniquely in my experience — and, I’d bet, mos
Read MoreBy Abdullah H. Erakat, The Media Line ABU DIS - Hala Kanaan recalls her disappointment at being one year too young to cast a ballot in the 2006 Pal
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A decision made two months ago by the Israeli government's religious court to release a woman from her marriage to a comatose husband was made publi
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