NEW YORK (JTA) – For years, Melissa Duchan had found the dress code for girls at her Orthodox school in Brooklyn, the Yeshivah of Flatbush, onerous.
Read MoreBy Alina Dain Sharon, JNS.org When Harvard Hillel refused to host a planned 2012 event titled “Jewish Voices Against the Israeli Occupati
Read MoreNEW YORK (JTA) -- A new partnership has launched to enable the purchase of kosher "fair trade" coffee, tea and chocolate while supporti
Read More(JTA) -- The serial killer Jack the Ripper was identified through DNA as a Jewish barber who immigrated to London from Poland.Businessma
Read MoreJERUSALEM (JTA) -- All women of Ashkenazi descent should be screened from age 30 for the BRCA gene mutation that causes breast cancer, a
Read MoreBy Ben Sales, JTA World News Service BEERSHEBA, Israel (JTA) -- Handcuffed to a wooden chair in the middle of the night, Rafat Awaysha still wasn’t
Read MoreBy Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) – Don’t bring it up. If it comes up, change the subject. If you can’t change the subject, c
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Joan Rivers, who broke barriers for women in comedy and on television, has died. Rivers, 81, died Thursday a week after being ru
Read MoreBy Dmitriy Shapiro, JNS.org/Washington Jewish Week After months of rampaging through Iraq and stoking international fears that the Islamic Stat
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By Alina Dain Sharon, JNS.org This summer’s 50-day conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, which has come to a close if a cease-fire reached
Read MoreBy Felice Friedson, The Media Line “As the international media is fixated on the struggle between the military and the Muslim Brotherhood, few repo
Read More(JTA) -- The Islamist ISIS organization has released a video that apparently shows the beheading of the American journalist Steven Sotloff. The
Read MoreBy Abdullah H. Erakat, The Media Line WEST BANK – As support for the Islamist Hamas movement soars in both the Gaza Strip and the West Ba
Read MoreBy Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service (JTA) – Between the war in Gaza and gains by Islamic militants in Iraq, Syria and Libya, there’s plenty of
Read MoreBy Abdullah H. Erakat and Linda Gradstein, The Media Line (RAMALLAH) — After the rockets comes the spin machine, and both Israel and Hamas are clam
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israel’s war is over, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fight may only have just begun.
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By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line An old Bedouin proverb says, “Me against my brother, me and my brother against my cousin, and me and my cousin a
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service TEL AVIV (JTA) — A rocket barrage fell on Israel, a boom sounded over Tel Aviv and then it was over — at least
Read MoreBy Anthony Weiss, JTA World News Service (JTA) -- On the evening of Aug. 12, after two consecutive nights of clashes between police and protesters in
Read MoreBy Ben Sales, JTA World News Service OR YEHUDA, Israel (JTA) -- Something that looks like a can of soda could be Israel's high-tech answer to the net
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