A voice vote in the US Senate Monday approved legislation that will award Israeli President Shimon Peres with the US Congressional Gold Medal. Peres j
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With the search for the over 200 missing Nigerian schoolgirls abducted last month by Islamist rebel group continuing, Israel has send a group of int
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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound On his blog at Macklemore.com, the local rap star explains that the costume he wore at his concert Frid
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ROME (JTA) -- Maccabi Tel Aviv upset favored Real Madrid to win the Euroleague basketball championship. Maccabi defeated the Spanish squad, 98-86,
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(JTA) – Israel sent aid to help rescue efforts in flood-ravaged Serbia and Bosnia. Local media reported that Israel sent a first shipment of emerge
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With a rise in contemporary anti-semitism in France, a new survey reveals that 75% of Jews harbor a desire to leave the country. JTA reports today tha
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JTA reports today that six Israeli runners were excluded from the West Bank portion of a regional long-distance peace run, which ended Monday. Led b
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Tablet Magazine asks the question, given that it took a month before international media even began to pay attention to the nearly 300 girls kidnapped
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University of Washington professor emeritus Edward Alexander slaps down Jewish proponents of the movement to boycott Israel and divest from companies
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WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The Iraqi government is extending the stay of the Iraqi Jewish Archive in the United States.“In order to continue this important
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The Kutscher resort, one of the remaining remnants of "Jewish Borscht Belt" culture, will be demolished later this month. The Monticello, N.Y. hotel h
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Despite claims by Vladimir Putin that everyone else is blaming the world's woes on the Jews, it appears that videos from the Kremlin's TV station are
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(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel has launched a campaign to have Yom Kippur recognized as an official holiday on the United Nations calendar
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By Anthony Weiss, JTA World News LOS ANGELES (JTA) -- Not every celebrity endorsement is a welcome one. The saga of Los Angeles Clippers own
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Today, the Forward revisits the Pew Research Center survey, which has occupied a great deal of discussion and concern amongst Jewish professionals thr
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By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) – A lot of people around the world hate the Jews. That’s the main finding of the Anti-Defama
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Maramures County in northern Transylvania is opening its first Holocaust education center, The Holocaust Cellar, on Sunday, May 18. The town is the ch
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By Rafael Medoff, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) -- On the outskirts of Cairo, on a blistering hot afternoon in May 1942, British Army cha
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Canadian Heritage Minister Glover, Foreign Affairs Minister Baird and Multiculturalism Minister Uppal announced this morning the team that will create
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Martin L. Johnson and Olinda Young of Phoenix, Arizona, have generously donated a 250-year-old Torah that was recovered from the Nazis to Virginia Com
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