WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The Iraqi government is extending the stay of the Iraqi Jewish Archive in the United States.“In order to continue this important
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Despite claims by Vladimir Putin that everyone else is blaming the world's woes on the Jews, it appears that videos from the Kremlin's TV station are
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(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel has launched a campaign to have Yom Kippur recognized as an official holiday on the United Nations calendar
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By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) – A lot of people around the world hate the Jews. That’s the main finding of the Anti-Defama
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Maramures County in northern Transylvania is opening its first Holocaust education center, The Holocaust Cellar, on Sunday, May 18. The town is the ch
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By Rafael Medoff, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) -- On the outskirts of Cairo, on a blistering hot afternoon in May 1942, British Army cha
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Canadian Heritage Minister Glover, Foreign Affairs Minister Baird and Multiculturalism Minister Uppal announced this morning the team that will create
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Three undergraduates from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Technion in Israel are developing an electronic guide dog for the blind. The stude
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Amsterdam's 18-year-old annual Pride Canal Parade will include, for the first time ever this year, a Jewish boat, which Monday, got the thumbs up fr
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA) -- When she decided to split up from her husband, she went before an Orthodox rabbinical c
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(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Days before Israel’s 66th Independence Day, the Israeli population reached 8.18 million people, according to a rep
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This week, the world said farewell to beloved British-Jewish actor, Bob Hoskins.Hoskins was best known for roles like Lou in "Mermaids" and Eddie in "
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Research has shown that, according to the halachic tradition of Judaism being passed down maternally, the late archbishop of New York, Cardinal John O
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By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line By age 20, Elad Peled was a senior commander in the Palmach, one of the branches of Israel’s pre-state army. He
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A new Fatwa issued by the Amman today allows visiting Muslims to enter the Al-Aksa Mosque on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. The new Fatwa cancels out what
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Saying that a return to normal relations with Israel could come in a matter of weeks, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said one issue is ho
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(JNS.org) On Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, world leaders called for the combating of anti-Semitism. President Barack Obama said
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By Felice Friedson and Linda Gradstein, The Media Line Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday that Israel should annex the 60 perc
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By Abdullah H. Erakat, The Media Line [RAMALLAH] — Dr. Hanan Ashrawi was the first woman elected to the Executive Committee of the Palestine Libera
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By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line When Cindy Flash wanted to make eggs benedict a few days ago, she turned to a new cooking app developed in Israe
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