(JTA) -- A suspect in the robbery and rape of a young couple in suburban Paris borrowed sugar from the victims days before the attack, a lawyer for th
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WARSAW, Poland (JTA) -- A town in central Poland is reconsidering a development plan that would turn a Jewish cemetery into a residential complex with
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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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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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TEL AVIV (JTA) -- Israel extended immigration benefits to non-Jewish spouses in same-sex marriages.On Tuesday, Interior Minister Gideon Saar instructe
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By Boris Kurbanov, Special to The Jewish Sound The history and tales of Jewish immigration to Washington is documented in an exhibit now on displa
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA World News BRUSSELS (JTA) -- Hunched over a small island of memorial candles for the victims of the attack on the Jewish Museu
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By Debra Rubin, JNS.org The Shabbat of Memorial Day weekend later this month will mark a first in American Jewish life: Three New York Ci
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By Robert Gluck, JNS.org Dr. Gary P. Zola sees an inextricable connection between American Jewish history, American history, and global
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By Joan Rudd, Special to The Jewish Sound I just spent six weeks gallery-sitting in a Jewish cultural heritage exhibit, for the most part by myself
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By Diana Brement, Jewish Sound columnist 1 “For improving health — and giving hope — to the world’s most vulnerable people,” Celina Schocken recent
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