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JTA – Perhaps the strangest part was sitting through a Sunday service in the 1 000-year-old nave of St Albans Cathedral (the longest nave in England)...
JTA – As the 2024 election gets into gear, both Republicans and Democrats are again using Israel as a wedge issue. A lot has changed in...
JTA – The prize dubbed the “Jewish Nobel” will be going to Barbra Streisand later this year in a return to its tradition of honouring Jewish...
JTA – The journalist arrested in Russia last month and the Biden administration’s antisemitism envoy are among the 10 Jewish members of Time Magazine’s “100 most...
JTA – Every Passover for more than 75 years, Helena Weinstock Weinrauch, a 98-year-old Holocaust survivor, has worn a vibrant blue hand-knit sweater to the first...
JTA – Just more than 100 years ago, in April 1922, my great-grandparents emigrated to the United States with their four children, fearing for their lives...
JTA – When Daniel Schleider and his wife, Lior, leave Israel next month, it will be for good – and with a heavy heart. “I have...
JTA – Chaim Topol won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of an immigrant to Israel, stepped off the stage in London to fight for his...
JTA – With seven nominations for his most personal film ever, this could have been Steven Spielberg’s biggest year at the Academy Awards. But the hot-dog...
JTA – Many Jews around the world celebrate Purim in the same ways: by reading the story of the heroic Queen Esther, dressing in festive costumes,...
JTA – In a historic building in the most industrial part of Podil, the hipster district of Kyiv that once was the heart of the Jewish...
JTA – In spite of resounding condemnation from across the world and efforts by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to denounce the outbreak of Jewish violence...
JTA – A “National Day of Hate” against Jews planned by white supremacists that triggered sweeping warnings from law enforcement and Jewish security officials came and...
JTA – In a rare comment on internal Israeli politics, the umbrella organisation for local Jewish federations is urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to drop one...
JTA – Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor who became a pro-Israel favourite during her two years as the Trump administration’s ambassador to the United...
JTA – When disability activist Lily Brasch was asked if she would walk the runway as a model for New York Fashion Week, she didn’t know...
JTA – An Israeli parliamentary committee voted to advance parts of the government’s proposed judicial reform on Monday, 13 February, as tens of thousands of Israelis...
JTA – Israel is sending aid to Turkey and Syria in the wake of two earthquakes on 6 February, one 7.8 and one 7.5 in magnitude,...
JTA – After initially sounding the all clear in the hours after a devastating earthquake on Monday, 6 February, the Turkish Jewish community now says that...
JTA – When Yad Vashem was created in 1953 on the slopes of Jerusalem’s Mount of Remembrance to commemorate the Holocaust, its founders understood that one...
JTA – A recent study of the Dutch population conducted by the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany showed an alarming lack of education about...
JTA – The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical drama about his Jewish upbringing, had an expected strong haul of Oscar nominations, picking up seven nods on Tuesday,...
JTA – For Jewish sports fans, 2022 was a year of very high highs and particularly low lows. Autumn was dominated by an antisemitism scandal involving...
JTA – Heirs of a German-Jewish banker are suing a Japanese insurance company for the return of one of Vincent van Gogh’s famed Sunflowers or at...
JTA – Lithuania’s parliament passed a law this week to set aside more than €37 million (R675 million) as restitution for Holocaust survivors and their heirs....
JTA – Just a few years ago, Oman was expected to be next in line after Morocco, Sudan, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates to sign...
JTA – When her son was diagnosed with autism, Ali Sultman was faced with a difficult choice. To give him the Jewish education her family believed...
JTA – Bill Harris, a veteran Los Angeles photojournalist, didn’t think much of it when one morning in 2012, he woke up and found a tiny...
JTA – After a “traditional, religious” Jewish childhood in Brooklyn where he attended yeshiva, Barry Rosen fell in love with Iran. Rosen was 22 when he...
JTA – On a snowy day in 2003, Lélia Picabia received a postcard at her Paris home. Mysteriously, it contained only the first names of four...
JTA – It would be difficult to debate what Steven Spielberg’s “most Jewish” film has been after a career with highlights such as Schindler’s List and...
JTA – Patagonia, Argentina’s famously beautiful southern region, has been a haven for Israeli backpackers, vacationers from Buenos Aires and, in the 20th century, Nazi war...
JTA – Stralsund, Germany, a charming medieval city nestled into the country’s Baltic coast, appears an unlikely setting for a reunion of an extended family torn...
JTA – The city of Erfurt in central Germany is home to an impeccably restored medieval synagogue made possible because local Jews had been expelled long...
JTA – Naftuli Moster, the founder and former executive director of Yaffed, the advocacy group focused on improving secular education in haredi orthodox Jewish schools, is...
JTA – At one point in John Boyne’s new novel All The Broken Places, a 91-year-old German woman recalls, for the first time, her encounter with...
JTA – This year’s slate of Jewish Grammy nominees offers a little something for everyone. The nominees for the 2023 Grammy Awards, announced on 15 November,...
JTA – The Palestinian American journalist killed while reporting on an Israeli military raid on a West Bank refugee camp was probably shot by the Israeli...
JTA – Lufthansa apologised for kicking identifiably Jewish people off a flight from New York City to Budapest last week after some Hasidic individuals on the...
JTA – Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz last week responded to the draft United States Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe vs. Wade, saying, “A...
