(JTA) -- Religious Jewish teens are far less likely to attempt suicide than their secular Jewish counterparts, a new study finds.The study, led by res
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(JTA) -- Israel's Health Ministry issued a warning declaring that therapies aimed at changing patients from gay to straight are not supported by medic
Read MoreBy Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service (This is part of a special JTA report on conversion in America. Read our other pieces about who's converting
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service ARIEL, West Bank (JTA) -- The small cardboard box in Elyashiv Drori’s palm looks like it’s full of black pebbles
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service TEL AVIV (JTA) -- For approximately a half hour at the beginning of her El Al Israel Airlines flight last week f
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Read More(JTA) -- A Ukrainian health official warned that Jewish pilgrims converging in Uman may bring with them the Ebola virus and other epidem
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By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service ANALYSIS NEW YORK (JTA) — The circus is coming to town. No, there won’t be marching elephants, lion
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By Ami Eden, JTA World News Service ANALYSIS NEW YORK (JTA) — President Obama did not mention Israel or the Palestinians during his address to t
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By Anthony Weiss, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) -- For a few days this year, they clogged up our Facebook feeds and then, perhaps, our subcon
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — It was the first Persian Gulf state to establish ties with Israel, the first to welcome I
Read MoreWASHINGTON (JTA) -- Germany is ready to allocate funds to tailor education about anti-Semitism for its Muslim students, the country's Je
Read More(JTA) -- The serial killer Jack the Ripper was identified through DNA as a Jewish barber who immigrated to London from Poland.Businessma
Read MoreJERUSALEM (JTA) -- All women of Ashkenazi descent should be screened from age 30 for the BRCA gene mutation that causes breast cancer, a
Read MoreBy Ben Sales, JTA World News Service BEERSHEBA, Israel (JTA) -- Handcuffed to a wooden chair in the middle of the night, Rafat Awaysha still wasn’t
Read MoreBy Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) – Don’t bring it up. If it comes up, change the subject. If you can’t change the subject, c
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