Category: World News

By Gil Shefler, JTA World News Service PORTLAND, Ore. (JTA)—Jessica Bettleheim, a business ethics lecturer at Portland State University and a

By Sarah Chandler, JTA World News Service

By Sarah Chandler, JTA World News Service FALLS VILLAGE, Conn. (JTA)—Judaism is designed to be a person’s operating system, the platfor

By , JTA World News Service

By , JTA World News Service     JERUSALEM (JTA)—Shmuel Rabinowitz, the rabbi of the Western Wall, said rabbis must weigh whether t

By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service

By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA)—In the battle to end the across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration, it̵

By Michel Stors, The Media Line

By Michel Stors, The Media Line Ma’arat Numan, Syria—When the jihadist organization Jabhat al-Nusra announced it was joining Al-Qa̵

By Lisa Hostein, other

By Lisa Hostein, other (Jewish Exponent)—Shelly Levy and Ken Lebowitz had planned to bake their own challah for Shabbat on Friday, but then c

By JTA News Desk, JTA World News Service

By JTA News Desk, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA)—The U.S. senators who defeated a bill that would toughen background checks for gun

By Ron Kampeas , JTA World News Service

By Ron Kampeas , JTA World News Service ANALYSIS WASHINGTON (JTA) — The day after the Boston Marathon bombing, President Obama called it an "act of

By Gil Shefler, JTNews Correspondent

By Gil Shefler, JTNews Correspondent NEW YORK (JTA)—Israeli Independence Day celebrations in Boston were muted and security was increased in

By Melissa Jacobs, JTA World News Service

By Melissa Jacobs, JTA World News Service (Jewish Exponent)—"It was a beautiful day. I was so excited to run and having such a good run. The

By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service