By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas set off a storm in Israel when he reportedly told American negotia
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced today that he had reached a unity pact with Hamas earlier Wednesday, which he insists doe
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As Israel continues to lead the way in several biotech industries, a small, independent Herzliya-based video tech firm, Extreme Reality, has stumbled
Read MoreUriel Heilman, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) -- When a 2009 Holocaust-era assets conference concluded with a landmark statement of principl
Read More(JTA) — A meeting between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators ended without an agreement to resume peace talks, a Palestinian official said. Th
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(JTA) — Pro-Russian separatists from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine denied any involvement in the circulation of fliers calling on Jews to register wi
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(JTA) -- An Australian-American team of researchers recommended circumcising infant males to avoid diseases in a new study that compared the practice
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Op-Ed: The West Bank is under military occupation, and that's a fact By Jessica Montell, JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Accordi
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By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, an Arab woman with a PhD in marine microbiology, has won Israel’s highest honor for an amate
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By Norma Zager/JNS.org Those of the mindset that religions are inherently at war with one another must have a difficult time reconciling
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Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org A Byzantine monastery with an intricate mosaic floor has been discovered in the northern part of Israel’s Negev
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(JNS.org) As a result of the ongoing strike by Israeli Foreign Ministry workers, a shipping container filled with Passover for a planned 1,700-person
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Linda Gradstein/The Media Line It sounds like the plot of a thriller. Two antiquities thieves, carrying their stolen loot, meet a potential buyer a
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(JTA) -- Ukrainian Jewish businessman announced his candidacy for president of Ukraine in the May elections. Rabinovich, 61, the owner and co-found
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Uriel Heilman, JTA News (JTA) -- When the leaders of Winnipeg’s Jewish federation sat down 13 years ago to try to figure out a way to reverse the c
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By JNS.org A new letter to President Barack Obama signed by 83 of 100 U.S. senators outlines "core principles" that the senators believe must be p
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By , JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA)—A Knesset committee will have to vote again on a bill allowing local rabbis to oversee conversions to J
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By Binyamin Kagedan, JNS.org The names of religious holidays are usually fairly straightforward, pointing us to the central symbol or theme of the
Read MoreBy JNS, JNS.org (JNS.org) The Norwegian Cruise Line announced Tuesday that it is canceling all of its remaining port calls to Tunisia and ceasing a
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