JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel's Cabinet agreed to reduce the presence of the country's military in the West Bank and limit its incursions into Palestinian
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(JNS.org) A Jewish man from the Queens borough of New York City is selling a Christian mezuzah dubbed the Christooza. Henry Zabarsky has created
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(JTA) -- An American dentist who said he is of Spanish-Jewish heritage is suing British Airways for flying him to Grenada rather than Granada. Edwa
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Last Friday, June 22, the Presbyterian church announced its intentions to divest from companies that do business with Israel in the West Bank. Several
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By Felice Friedson, The Media Line “Most Palestinians want the [kidnapped Israeli] kids to be alive and to be found,” says Dr. Nabil Kukali, the fo
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By Edmon J. Rodman, JTA World News LOS ANGELES (JTA) -- Part “God Bless America,” part “Shabbat Shalom,” the Fourth of July this year falls on a Fr
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By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent Jewish preschools in Seattle may feel the impact of a city-wide ballot measure this November that would
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By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent The Associated Students of Western Washington University’s board of directors, in an unprecedented move
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(JTA) -- Jewish groups predicted a rupture with Presbyterians in the wake of a close vote favoring divestment from three companies that deal with Isra
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News TEL AVIV (JTA) -- At 3:30 Shavuot morning, more than 100 people are seated on folding chairs singing in Yiddish as
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By Sean Savage, JNS.org For most Westerners, Iraq is a foreboding and dangerous place that is filled with extremists and daily violence. Yet as lit
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By Boris Kurbanov, Special to the Jewish Sound Members of Seattle’s Jewish community gathered Wednesday, June 18 at the Stroum Jewish Community Cen
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TORONTO (JTA) -- Canadians were evenly split in their support for Israel and the Palestinians, according to a new poll. The survey by the Toronto-b
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By Ben Sales, JTA World NewsTEL AVIV (JTA) -- Since the three teenagers were abducted last week, Israel's goals have been simple: Find them and punish
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JERUSALEM (JTA) -- An Arab-Israeli Knesset member said the kidnappers of three Israeli teenagers are not terrorists."They are people that cannot see a
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By JNS.org As the days pass following the abduction of three Jewish teenagers near Hebron, the boys’ families are refusing to succumb to despair de
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As the World Cup begins its first week of intense competition, a group of Argentinian Jews are not just focusing on the soccer fields of Brazil, but
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News TEL AVIV (JTA) -- Blocks away from the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and the headquarters of two major banks, in the cor
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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound Henry Friedman had a message for the nearly 100 school-aged kids and their parents who sat in the shell
Read MoreOn Wednesday, the Associated Students of Western Washington University in Bellingham voted unanimously that it would not consider boycott and divestit
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