(JTA) -- President Obama in Jewish New Year greetings spoke of a challenging past year and new hope."As Jews across America, Israel, and the world gat
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By Uriel Heilman JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — President Obama devoted the bulk of his U.N. speech to the fight against violent Islamic e
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service ARLINGTON, Va. (JTA) -- The scene at Arlington National Cemetery last Friday was not quite routine, but
Read MoreWASHINGTON (JTA) -- Citing possible threats to the homeland among other considerations, President Obama pledged to “destroy” ISIS using airstrikes an
Read MoreNEW 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
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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
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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 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 More(JNS.org) A Temple University student was punched in the face and called anti-Semitic slurs by members of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) on
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(Cleveland Jewish News/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Columbus, Ohio, Jewish community is mourning the loss of one of its lone soldiers as the Israel Defen
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(JTA) -- The United States is tightening controls on military sales to Israel in the wake of the conflict in Gaza.On July 20, days after Israel began
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) – If the results of a recent focus group and polls are any indication, the gap is growing bet
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JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Senate unanimously approved new funds to Israel for its Iron Dome anti-missile system after Republica
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JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — A number of Senate Republicans blocked Israel’s request of an additional $225 million for the Iron Dome a
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By Hillel Kuttler, JTA World News Service BALTIMORE (JTA) -- Sean Carmeli, a sergeant in the Israeli army, was stationed in Israel’s South awaiting p
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NEW YORK (JTA) –United, U.S. Airways and Delta Airlines canceled their flights to Tel Aviv after a rocket fired from Gaza struck near the Israeli airp
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By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service (JTA) -- Rebecca Scoggin lived in a lot of places growing up: Juneau, Nome, Fairbanks, Homer, Anchorage. But
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(JTA) — Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, the father of the Jewish Renewal movement, has died at age 89. A maverick rabbi who started
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