World – The Jewish Federation Community News (formerly Jewish Sound)

March 3, 20140

PJ Library, Jewish kids’ books provider, expands to Arab sector

By Julie Wiener, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA)—A Religion News Service article about the PJ Library is headlined "Free books — 10 mil

February 28, 20140

By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA World News Service (JTA)—He calls his troops "the Blue Helmets of Maidan," but brown is the color of the headgear wor

February 27, 20140

By Amelia Katzen, JNS.org "The most difficult thing to overcome is their terror," the young doctor said softly. "All their lives they have been to

February 25, 20140

By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA)—Just how open should Jewish institutions be when it comes to talking about Israel? T

February 25, 20140

By Talia Lavin and Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA World News Service (JTA)—The turmoil in Ukraine has left one of Europe’s largest Jewish communit

February 25, 20140

By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA)—A billboard in central Tel Aviv features a black-and-white photo of a distressed woman a

February 24, 20140

By , JNS.org (JNS.org) Jewish organizations have set up emergency assistance for Ukraine's roughly 200,000-member Jewish community amid ongoing pol

February 21, 20140

By , JTA World News Service (JTA)—Spanish Muslims urged their government to grant citizenship to descendants of Muslims who were expelled fro

February 19, 20140

By Maayan Jaffe, JNS.org Sexual abuse of minors has for many years been among the most controversial and suppressed issues in the Jewish community.

February 14, 20140

By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTNews Correspondent (JTA)—When Farida Trichine and 11 of her friends burst into a French supermarket in 2009 and began ap

February 10, 20140

By JTA News Desk, JTA World News Service Spain's Jewish community congratulated the government for approving a bill proposing to facilitate the nat