By Hanna Rais, The Media Line In Afghanistan, dozens of men marched through the streets wearing head-to-toe sky-blue burkas to show their identific
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By Anthony Weiss, JTA World News Service PORTLAND, Ore. (JTA) -- For Tim and Sonia Marie Leikam, the dream is nearly complete. Behind the couple
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The Hague, Netherlands (JTA) — A number of Dutch schools refrain from teaching about the Holocaust because of resistance from Muslim pupils, teachers
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By Anthony Weiss, JTA World News Service PORTLAND, Ore. (JTA) – Until recently, Jo Borkan was thinking about leaving Portland. She had lived in
Read MoreBy Ben Sales, JTA World News Service TEL AVIV (JTA) -- Isaac Herzog paces slowly up and down the stage, one hand in his suit pocket, a slight smi
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By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent While Middle East experts wring their hands in hopes that moderate leaders can prevail in the region, G
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(JTA) — In his address to Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued that the proposed nuclear deal being negotiated with Iran will le
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By JTA World News Service Full text of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint session of Congress, March 3, 2015. As delivere
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In search of old members: Ner Tamid’s 50th anniversary celebration for a shul that lasted five years Five years is a relatively short life for a sy
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By Gwen Davis , Jewish Sound Correspondent You’re starving, you’ve been sitting too long, you’re overtired, and the baby won’t stop screaming. Sou
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By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound In 1935, Lithuania-born Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan wrote “Judaism as a Civilization,” a book th
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told top Senate Democrats he regretted that hi
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service RAMAT GAN, Israel (JTA) -- When Isaac Herzog learned that his Zionist Union party had won the election with 32
Read MoreBy Julie Wiener, JTA World News Service Commentary magazine called it “flood libel.” HonestReporting.com described it as “dam busted.” And Camera h
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If you have visited one of our local Jewish cemeteries on Memorial Day you will have seen the efforts of a small group of local Jewish veterans who ho
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