By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA World News Service (JTA) — An attack on the Paris headquarters of a French satirical magazine has left at least 12 people de
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) -- Argentina's president adopted a Jewish godson under a law intended to counteract an old legend about werewolves. P
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(JTA) -- A draft Palestinian statehood resolution set to be introduced at the United Nations is counterproductive, the U.S. State Department said.
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By Samantha Badgen, The Media Line That terrorism causes psychological trauma is nothing new. Most would agree that causing trauma is one of terror
Read MoreBy Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service (JTA) – For many Cuban Jews – the majority of whom now live in the United States – it has been a bitterswe
Read MoreBy Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) – United Synagogue Youth voted to relax its rules barring its teenage board members from da
Read More(JTA) -- The French motorist who slammed his car into a crowd shouting "This is in the name of the children of Palestine" did not commit a terror atta
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By JTA Staff (JTA) -- What made headlines (in Israel, the U.S. and around the world) in 2014? Test your knowledge with JTA's annual news quiz:
Read MoreBy Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) -- I've been JTA's Washington bureau chief for 11 years, but this was the first time I scor
Read MoreBy Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) – Come early next year, there might be yet another world capital that opposes Israeli settl
Read MoreWASHINGTON (JTA) – The Obama administration announced the release of Alan Gross amidst sweeping changes in Cuba-U.S. ties, including a return to full
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(JTA) — The parents of Steven Sotloff, the Jewish journalist who was beheaded by a member of ISIS, will light a public menorah in Miami in his memory.
Read MoreBy Menachem Wecker, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) -- Dimly lit, the stone slab, or stele, doesn’t look particularly noteworthy, especiall
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By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service (JTA) — When the season’s first snowstorm descended on Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights a few weeks ago,
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA) – On the surface, the tour looked much like a standard Birthright Israel trip: Participants ce
Read More(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli police closed off Highway 90 to the southern city of Eilat after an oil pipeline burst around 12 miles nor
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JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Two shoppers outside a West Bank supermarket were stabbed by an assailant in what police are treating as a terrorist attack. The
Read More(JTA) -- A suspect in the robbery and rape of a young couple in suburban Paris borrowed sugar from the victims days before the attack, a lawyer for th
Read More(JNS.org) Ahead of Americans’ nationwide feasting on Turkey for Thanksgiving last week, newly released statistics showed that Israel is the surprising
Read MoreIsrael Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org Hezbollah has a stock of advanced sea-to-sea missiles with which it intends to impose a maritime siege on Israel
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