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March 26, 20150

10 ways to add some girl power to your seder

By Avital Norman Nathman, Kveller.com (Kveller via JTA) — Whether you weave in one, a few, or all 10 of these tips, consider honoring the matriarch

March 11, 20150

By Hanna Rais, The Media Line In Afghanistan, dozens of men marched through the streets wearing head-to-toe sky-blue burkas to show their identific

December 17, 20140

By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (JTA) – Jewish campus groups were ready for the painful national dialogue that took pla

December 8, 20140

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

December 4, 20140

By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA) – On the surface, the tour looked much like a standard Birthright Israel trip: Participants ce

December 2, 20140

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen, JTA World News Service (JTA) -- Surely the Torah’s redactors never imagined that their Dinah — voiceless daughter of Jacob

November 26, 20141

Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound Following the discovery of Washington, D.C. rabbi Barry Freundel’s breach of privacy for spyi

October 21, 20140

By Elana Sztokman, JTA World News Service MODIIN, Israel (JTA) -- With the news that Rabbi Barry Freundel, a prominent Orthodox rabbi, has been arr

September 30, 20140

By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service TEL AVIV (JTA) -- For approximately a half hour at the beginning of her El Al Israel Airlines flight last week f

September 11, 20140

NEW YORK (JTA) – For years, Melissa Duchan had found the dress code for girls at her Orthodox school in Brooklyn, the Yeshivah of Flatbush, onerous.

September 8, 20140

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- All women of Ashkenazi descent should be screened from age 30 for the BRCA gene mutation that causes breast cancer, a

September 4, 20140

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Joan Rivers, who broke barriers for women in comedy and on television, has died. Rivers, 81, died Thursday a week after being ru

June 12, 20140

By Diana Brement, Jewish Sound Columnist Even when work is going well, personal problems always seem to rear up. At least that is how it goes for t

April 7, 20140

By Melanie Notkin, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) -- We had just closed our Haggadahs to begin the dinner portion of the Passover seder when