By Justin Coskey, Special to the Jewish Sound I recently had the opportunity to interview Daniel Cohen, an active young adult in the Jewish communi
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service ARIEL, West Bank (JTA) -- The small cardboard box in Elyashiv Drori’s palm looks like it’s full of black pebbles
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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
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(JTA) -- President Obama in Jewish New Year greetings spoke of a challenging past year and new hope."As Jews across America, Israel, and the world gat
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By Uriel Heilman JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — President Obama devoted the bulk of his U.N. speech to the fight against violent Islamic e
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By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent The Unites States needs to play hardball. When it engages in talks with Iran over its uranium enrichmen
Read MoreBy Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound This past year, the Samis Foundation allocated over $4 million to local Jewish education a
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By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service ANALYSIS NEW YORK (JTA) — The circus is coming to town. No, there won’t be marching elephants, lion
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By Ami Eden, JTA World News Service ANALYSIS NEW YORK (JTA) — President Obama did not mention Israel or the Palestinians during his address to t
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With 2014 marking our 90th anniversary, we decided to take a look back at our history to help you create your High Holiday menu. What you will find he
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By Anthony Weiss, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) -- For a few days this year, they clogged up our Facebook feeds and then, perhaps, our subcon
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By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent Despite having to leave its building in Seattle’s Maple Leaf neighborhood after a six-year, post-recess
Read MoreBy Dan Aznoff, Jewish Sound Correspondent Every mother of a Jewish teenager will likely agree that leadership is a natural ability within most youn
Read MoreBy David Chivo, Special to The Jewish Sound The media is awash these days with coverage about the rise of anti-Semitism around the world. If we are
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service ARLINGTON, Va. (JTA) -- The scene at Arlington National Cemetery last Friday was not quite routine, but
Read MoreBy Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) – Jewish institutions, which have faced attacks in recent years by lone wolves — extremists w
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — It was the first Persian Gulf state to establish ties with Israel, the first to welcome I
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