By Maayan Jaffe, JNS.org In southern Israel, the next generation of Jewish pioneers is making the desert bloom. A group of young, Zionist, ideal
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By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is now epidemic, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev virologis
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Read MoreBy Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) – Tzipporah Laura LaFianza and her family have been living as Orthodox Jews for four years
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JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for the light rail attack in Jeru
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By Michael Adam Latz, JTA World News Service MINNEAPOLIS (JTA) -- Early last week, national faith leaders called rabbis, pastors, priests and imams
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NEW YORK (JTA) -- Dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals and SS guards collected millions of dollars in Social Security payments after being forced ou
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JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The epidemic of violence permeates every sector of Israel, the country's president, Reuven Rivlin, said in an address."It is time t
Read MoreBy Ben Sales, JTA World News Service TEL AVIV (JTA) -- The music pounded, the liquor flowed, dancers filled the floor and khinkali meat dumplings and
Read MoreBy Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA World News Service THE HAGUE, Netherlands (JTA) -- Loading a newly released video of a beheading in Syria on his smartphone, N
Read MoreBy Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Ibrahim Barzak spent his childhood counting the days to weekends, when he would travel wit
Read More(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Adolf Hitler used the highly addictive drug crystal meth as part of his medical regimen of 74 medici
Read More(JNS.org) The Israel Police and the Shin Bet security agency believe that dozens more Israeli Arabs are planning to join the Islamic State terror grou
Read More(JNS.org) Jerusalem Police units stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque compound early Monday and prevented dozens of masked assailants from carrying out a planne
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By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service (This is part of a special report on conversion in America. Read our other pieces about who's converting t
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By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service I understand you’re considering converting to Judaism. Shalom aleichem! What sort of conversion would y
Read More(JTA) -- Ralph Goldman, a former leader of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and a central figure in Israel’s establishme
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(JTA) -- More than 350 anthropologists from around the world have endorsed a boycott of Israel and its academic institutions.The statement was posted
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(JTA) -- Religious Jewish teens are far less likely to attempt suicide than their secular Jewish counterparts, a new study finds.The study, led by res
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