(JTA) -- Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas criticized President Barack Obama's relationship with Israel while announcing his candidacy for the Republican preside
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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
Read MoreBy Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Hillel International said its president, Eric Fingerhut, was pulling out of J Street's u
Read MoreBy Sarah Wildman, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) -- At the AIPAC conference, a sea of 16,000 Israel supporters spent their time talking Ir
Read MoreBy Anthony Weiss, JTA World News Service PORTLAND, Ore. (JTA) – Until recently, Jo Borkan was thinking about leaving Portland. She had lived in
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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 Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — As clearly as Jeb Bush has stated that he does not want his foreign policy chops assessed
Read MoreBy Suzanne Pollak and Geoffrey W. Melada, JTA/Washington Jewish Week Rabbi Barry Freundel, the former spiritual leader at a prominent Washington sy
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(JTA) -- A woman in Boise, Idaho, allegedly harassed and physically attacked her Jewish neighbor in order to convince her to convert to Christianity.
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(JTA) – A neighbor was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of three Muslims near the University of North Carolina. The victims
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(JTA) -- The Stanford University student senate defeated an Israel divestment resolution. On Tuesday night, the Associated Students of Stanford Uni
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) – The controversy over whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned speech t
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LOS ANGELES (JTA) -- The University of California Student Association passed two resolutions urging the university to divest from several countries, i
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(JTA) -- James Foley and Steven Sotloff, American journalists who were killed by ISIS, were honored with an award in memory of the murdered Jewish jou
Read MoreNEW YORK (JTA) – Ellen Schaeffer Brody, a Jewish mother of three from Scarsdale, was identified as the driver of the SUV that caused a deadly Metro-No
Read MoreBy Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) -- After the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris last month, Kari Alterman heard from every o
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(JTA) -- Two swastikas were spray-painted on a Jewish fraternity's house at the University of California, Davis, two days after the student senate pas
Read More(JTA) -- An upcoming Republican National Committee trip to Israel is being fully funded by a hate group, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center,
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NEW YORK (JTA) -- Streit’s said it will close the company's 90-year-old matzah factory on New York's Lower East Side. Aron Streit, Inc., a family-o
Read MoreBy Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (JTA) – Jewish campus groups were ready for the painful national dialogue that took pla
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