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By Maayan Jaffe, JNS.org Picture a mad science lab with electrical wires, computer chords, ropes, and wheels and you have a pretty good picture of
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By Alina Dain Sharon, JNS.org With the Winter Olympics gearing up for their Feb. 7 start in Sochi, Russia, the Jewish debate on the games mirrors t
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By Dmitriy Shapiro, JNS.org Efforts to keep a significant collection of artifacts seized from Iraq's Jewish community by Saddam Hussein from being
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By Maxine Dovere, JNS.org NEW YORK—Days before Super Bowl XLVIII in northern New Jersey's MetLife Stadium, a New York City room filled with players
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By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line After several years, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) seems to be gaining strength. From a N
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By JNS.org, JNS.org Jewish-American actress Scarlett Johansson is stepping down as a global ambassador for the human rights group Oxfam Internation
Read MoreBy Ben Harris, JTA World News Service Today began on a sad note with news that Pete Seeger, a man for whom the modifier "legendary" seems hopeless
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By Dmitriy Shapiro, JNS.org Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations and the Iran nuclear program are at the top of the Jewish community's agenda
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By Danny Danon, JNS.org I am overwhelmed, at Auschwitz, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, where I join somberly with fellow Israeli leade
Read MoreBy Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA)—The announcement this week that SAR, a modern Orthodox high school in New York, is al
Read MoreBy Paul Goldenberg, JTNews Correspondent NEW YORK (JTA)—The growing risks posed by homegrown terrorism, the rise of European ultranationalist
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Read MoreBy Julie Schonfeld , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — The good news is in: Rabbi Avi Weiss' conversions will be accepted in Israel. I am gl
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