By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) – If they buy it, they will come. That’s the philosophy behind a new luxury apartment
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Read MoreBy Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent The Seattle premiere of “The J Street Challenge,” a documentary film critical of the self-described pro
Read MoreEmily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound Following the discovery of Washington, D.C. rabbi Barry Freundel’s breach of privacy for spyi
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Rawan Masalha and Inbar Shaked-Vardi were in their ninth-grade geography class earlier this
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By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) – If Rabbi Steven Pruzansky of Teaneck, N.J., had his way, Arab rioters and stone throwers
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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
Read More(JNS.org) Yemenite Minister of Culture Arwa Othman is giving away Human Rights Watch's Alison Des Forges Award, which she received in September, to Ye
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 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 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
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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
Read MoreNEW YORK (JTA) — More than a dozen members of a prominent Satmar Hasidic family in New York were charged with lying to obtain $20 million in mortgages
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