By Alina Dain Sharon, JNS.org As of 2005, German gynecologist Dr. Frank Hoffmann was no longer allowed to send women under the age of 50 to get mammograms without first finding a breast abnormality during his routine examination. Since some breast lumps can be very small, Hoffmann wasn’t certain he couldContinue Reading
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By Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org, JNS.org A 1.5-mile tunnel running from the Gaza Strip to the Israeli border kibbutz Ein Hashlosha was uncovered last week, Israeli officials announced Sunday. Subsequently, the Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday blew up a different tunnel, situated under Israel’s border with the central part of Gaza.Continue Reading
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service BEIT SHEMESH, Israel (JTA)—It was only when her sons came at her with knives that she realized keeping quiet was not going to work. For nine years, her rabbis had told her not to speak up about her husband’s verbal, physical and sexual attacks.Continue Reading
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By Annette Powers, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA)—For months leading up to my wedding, I was a bundle of nerves. Sure, I was worried about whether or not my dress would fit and if the swing band would be able to pull off the hora, but that wasn’t it.Continue Reading
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By Helen Nash, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA)—The phenomenon this year of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving coinciding could mean even larger family gatherings than usual. So here are some tips: Plan the menus well ahead of the special celebration, and pick recipes that are easy to follow and make themContinue Reading
By , JNS.org (JNS.org) Pope Francis I reiterated his desire to visit Israel next year during a visit to the Vatican by Israeli Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein on Wednesday. During the meeting, after Edelstein urged Pope Francis to visit Israel, the pontiff emphatically replied, “I’ll come! I’ll come!” Edelstein also askedContinue Reading
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service TEL AVIV (JTA)—In late July, the Palestinian Authority’s official television channel featured a girl reciting a poem with the words “our enemy is Satan, Zion with a tail.” Two days earlier, the Palestinian Authority minister of religious affairs had compared the recently restarted Israeli-PalestinianContinue Reading
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By Yossi Prager, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA)—Last week, the Pew Research Center released the first national demographic study of Jewish Americans in more than a decade. Like all such studies, there are disagreements at the edges about the accuracy of some of the results, but the study’s mostContinue Reading
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By Yehuda Shlezinger and Israel Hayom/JNS.org, JNS.org Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, former chief Sephardi rabbi of Israel and the spiritual leader of the Orthodox Shas party, died Monday at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem of complications from multiple organ failure. He was 93 years old. Yosef suffered a mild strokeContinue Reading
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By JTA News Desk, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA)—The Obama administration underscored potential cuts in defense assistance to Israel in making its case against the federal government shutdown. “In the absence of a continuing resolution, we have no FY14 Foreign Military Financing, International Military Education or Peacekeeping Operations funds toContinue Reading
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