(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
Read MoreFederation CEO Keith Dvorchik echoed many of my feelings in his recent column (“As we mourn, let us stop the divisiveness about Israel,” Nov. 21). We,
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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 Emily K. Alhadeff Associate Editor, JTNews The only thing missing was the campfire on December 8 when 30 people gathered with the Jewish Genealo
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Nina Badzin Kveller.com MINNEAPOLIS (Kveller.com) — We Jews have two choices in our approach to the Christmas season: Resent it or embrace it. I fo
Read MoreBy Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound On Nov. 28, the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle announced that 14 organizations would receive near
Read MoreBy Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound Roya Hakakian was 12 when her country erupted in revolution. The daughter of intellectual
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By Boris Kurbanov, Jewish Sound Correspondent Sharing stories of its history, reuniting alumni, and looking to the future, Camp Solomon Schechter c
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By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent Each year, many heart disease patients in the U.S. and around the world die waiting for a heart transpl
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
Read MoreBy Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — The stabbing of a rabbinical student at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in New York undersc
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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
Read MoreBy Hillel Kuttler, JTA World News Service The “Seeking Kin” column aims to help reunite long-lost relatives and friends. BALTIMORE (JTA) — “Seek
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By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound Fresh out of Israel and already scooping up a first place award at the Tribeca Film Festi
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