BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) -- Argentina's president adopted a Jewish godson under a law intended to counteract an old legend about werewolves. P
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(JTA) -- A draft Palestinian statehood resolution set to be introduced at the United Nations is counterproductive, the U.S. State Department said.
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By Samantha Badgen, The Media Line That terrorism causes psychological trauma is nothing new. Most would agree that causing trauma is one of terror
Read MoreBy Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service (JTA) – For many Cuban Jews – the majority of whom now live in the United States – it has been a bitterswe
Read MoreBy Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) – United Synagogue Youth voted to relax its rules barring its teenage board members from da
Read More(JTA) -- The French motorist who slammed his car into a crowd shouting "This is in the name of the children of Palestine" did not commit a terror atta
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By JTA Staff (JTA) -- What made headlines (in Israel, the U.S. and around the world) in 2014? Test your knowledge with JTA's annual news quiz:
Read MoreBy Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) -- I've been JTA's Washington bureau chief for 11 years, but this was the first time I scor
Read MoreBy Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (JTA) – Jewish campus groups were ready for the painful national dialogue that took pla
Read MoreBy Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) – Come early next year, there might be yet another world capital that opposes Israeli settl
Read MoreWASHINGTON (JTA) – The Obama administration announced the release of Alan Gross amidst sweeping changes in Cuba-U.S. ties, including a return to full
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(JTA) — The parents of Steven Sotloff, the Jewish journalist who was beheaded by a member of ISIS, will light a public menorah in Miami in his memory.
Read MoreBy Menachem Wecker, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) -- Dimly lit, the stone slab, or stele, doesn’t look particularly noteworthy, especiall
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By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service (JTA) — When the season’s first snowstorm descended on Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights a few weeks ago,
Read MoreBy Anthony Weiss, JTA World News Service LOS ANGELES (JTA) — A decade ago in Los Angeles, two organizations opened their doors with a call to praye
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By Suzanne Feinspan, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) -- I sat down last week to write about what happened in Ferguson. As I began to write,
Read MoreBy Anthony Weiss, JTA World News Service (JTA) -- Last week's departure of most of the editorial team at The New Republic -- including Franklin Foe
Read MoreBy Steve Lipman, The Jewish Week NEW YORK (The Jewish Week via JTA) -- Just three weeks after terrorists killed four worshippers in a Jerusalem syn
Read MoreWASHINGTON (JTA) -- The stabbing of a rabbinical student at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in New York underscores three things that Jewish securit
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(JTA) — An Israeli man studying for the rabbinate in New York was stabbed while praying at Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn. Levi Ro
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