By Ben Sales, JTA World News TEL AVIV (JTA) -- On Sunday, Israel's Cabinet is set to advance a controversial bill that if passed by the Knesset wou
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(JNS.org) The undergraduate student government at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) voted to divest from American companies that do busines
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service TEL AVIV (JTA) -- They all lived on the same street. They had all moved there from abroad. They were all rabbi
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(JNS.org) Israeli Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonvitch ordered a probe to examine easing restrictions on gun laws following the gruesome terro
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service TEL AVIV (JTA) -- After a gruesome attack by two Palestinian cousins left four dead at a Jerusalem synagogue,
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Five Israelis were killed in a terror attack during morning prayers at a Jerusalem synagogue, including one Druze policeman who died
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JERUSALEM (JTA) -- A Knesset committee vote on a law to officially make Israel the nation-state of all Jews was postponed. Justice Minister Tzipi L
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JERUSALEM (JTA) -- A Jewish man was stabbed with a screwdriver in central Jerusalem. The victim, 32, was treated on the scene for stab wounds to hi
Read MoreNEW YORK (JTA) — More than a dozen members of a prominent Satmar Hasidic family in New York were charged with lying to obtain $20 million in mortgages
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(JTA) — A murder-suicide in Portland, Ore., has left two Jewish day school students orphaned. Portland police said that Ian Elias, 47, killed his e
Read MoreVANCOUVER, Canada (JTA) -- A youth hockey coach in suburban Vancouver was fired for posting Nazi propaganda on social media. Christopher Maximilian
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By Abraham H. Foxman NEW YORK (JTA) -- Each year on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, we recall the opening salvo of the violent assault on Jews th
Read MoreBy Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) – The Anti-Defamation League’s new national director will be social entrepreneur Jonathan G
Read MoreJERUSALEM (JTA) -- The Palestinian man suspected of running over three Israeli soldiers with a van turned himself in. Hamam Mesalmeh, of the West B
Read MoreJERUSALEM (JTA) -- The International Criminal Court said it will not open a war crimes case against Israel in the Mavi Marmara incident.
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service TEL AVIV (JTA) – The Israeli government has adopted a major reform expected to ease the path to conversion for
Read MoreBy Batya Ungar-Sargon, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) -- As the last generation of Holocaust survivors ages and dies, efforts to capture the
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By Sean Savage, JNS.org Known primarily for their military prowess and high-tech ingenuity, Israelis are often overlooked when it comes to their gl
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service TEL AVIV (JTA) -- SodaStream, the Israeli at-home seltzer machine company, announced last week that it would b
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA) — An anonymous White House staffer apparently isn’t the only one who thinks Benjamin Netanyahu
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