By Emily K., Alhadeff Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound The word on the Jewish street is “attrition.” Made painfully clear by last year’s Pew stud
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By Rita Berman Frischer, Special to the Jewish Sound Sometimes it seems like a miracle how many different books on Hanukkah are out there. One of t
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By Diana Brement, Jewish Sound Columnist Happy Jewish Book Month to writers and readers everywhere! I decided to reach out to Merna Ann Hech
Read MoreJERUSALEM (JTA) -- A shipment of knives, swords, fireworks and Tasers bound for eastern Jerusalem was intercepted by Israel Police. Police seiz
Read MoreJERUSALEM (JTA) -- The Israel Antiquities Authority has launched a free app to introduce archaeology to children using games and puzzles. The a
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By Keith Dvorchik, Special to the Jewish Sound I read with horror this week about the attack in a synagogue in Israel that left five dead, many inj
Read MoreBoris Kurbanov, Jewish Sound Correspondent It’s a noir world, or so the publishers at Akashic Books would have us think. Ever since the release
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By Sara K. Greenberg CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (JTA) -- I never imagined that a day would come when some of the world’s leading corporations would fund call
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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 Ed Harris A Jewish friend of mine once described Thanksgiving as his favorite holiday. He said Thanksgiving is the only celebration of the seaso
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By Tziporah Heller Dear friends, Yesterday at about 7 a.m. my daughter Miri called. "Mordechai just came home from shul. He said that Arabs cam
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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
Read MoreBy Mark Dratch NEW YORK (JTA) – In a recent JTA Op-Ed, Rabbis Marc Angel and Avi Weiss made a number of claims about the Rabbinical Council of Amer
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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
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