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JTA – When Ilana Mittman, a retired social scientist with American and Israeli citizenship, began arranging a trip to Israel from her home in Baltimore, she...
JTA – Israel and Greece finalised on Monday a $3.5 billion (R56.4 billion) deal providing the Hellenic Republic with a multilayered antimissile system designed to protect the European Union...
JTA – A Jewish Zionist politician announced on Monday night that he had joined an Arab party, in an unusual move that could help give the coalition of...
JTA – The discovery this week of the sunken arms ship the Altalena, which almost sparked an Israeli civil war just one month after the State was created...
JTA – In keeping with Jewish tradition and the directive of Proverbs 24:17, I don’t rejoice at the death of Ratko Mladić. I do, however, take profound satisfaction in...
JTA – Fashion designer John Galliano withdrew from a planned exhibition of his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in response to a rapidly escalating controversy...
JTA – Far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, a close associate of Ye, Candace Owens, and other past and present promoters of antisemitic conspiracy theories, has been detained by...
JTA – Dolly Parton, who died on Tuesday at age 80 after a brief bout with cancer, has been mourned around the world as a stellar songwriter, consummate country hit maker,...
JTA – This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. When Endalkew Yemani Tesma fled Ethiopia in 2005, he didn’t know what awaited him on the way to...
JTA – Montréal has passed a motion of solidarity with Palestinians after stripping a clause that called for severing institutional and diplomatic ties with Israel. On...
JTA – Ilanit Ninay-Lion remembers as if it were yesterday the frantic call she received in November 2023 from the family of Yoni Asher. His wife and...
JTA – A window was broken at a Reform synagogue in the central Israeli city of Ramat Hasharon less than two weeks after a similar incident...
JTA – Deep in the trees and swampy thickets of Lithuania’s Rūdninkai Forest, a series of makeshift forts is sinking into the earth. These represent the remains of underground bunkers...
JTA –The Dutch public broadcaster Avrotr os has pulled out of the next Eurovision Song Contest, saying that Israel’s participation undermined the event’s neutrality. Avrotros announced on...
JTA – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday posted what he described as his personal phone number and invited Israelis to contact him with their questions...
JTA – The United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia jointly condemned Israel for declining to open a criminal probe into the April 2024 killing of seven World Central...
JTA – The United Kingdom (UK) threatened to sanction Israelis involved in West Bank settlement expansion after the Jewish State’s Lands Authority opened bids for 1 234 homes in the largely...
JTA – New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said she felt a “deeply personal” commitment to protect Jews in a speech at Central Synagogue, where...
JTA – An Argentinean federal judge has been removed from office for a series of antisemitic posts on his social media accounts that constituted misconduct incompatible with his role, an impeachment...
JTA – In September 1932, Israel Joshua Singer boarded a ship bound for New York, where he had been invited to report on the United States (US) for...
JTA – The remains of Yehuda Katz, the last Israeli soldier still missing from the 1982 Battle of Sultan Yacoub during the First Lebanon War, have...
JTA – The man accused of disrupting Shabbat services at Manhattan’s Central Synagogue last week now faces federal hate crimes charges in addition to the state...
JTA – Jürgen Stroop, the Nazi commander who led the killing of more than 50 000 Jews, was sitting in a cell in Warsaw awaiting his...
JTA – At a barbecue on a Netanya rooftop earlier this month, Member of the Knesset (MK) Yoav Segalovitz, a politician most people outside Israel have...
JTA – The West Bank settlement movement’s leadership joined with one of its most prominent defenders, US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, in condemning an Israeli settler outpost...
JTA – Nearly four in 10 Jewish young adults say events affecting Jews in recent years have led them to pull back from Jewish spaces or...
JTA – Vandals broke into a Reform synagogue in Jerusalem over the weekend, damaging the building and artwork and tearing down Pride flags displayed by the...
JTA – A Jewish security watchdog is doubling down on safety measures in the wake of a Friday night attack against worshippers at Manhattan’s Central Synagogue,...
JTA – Apple has agreed to pay $150 000 (R2.42 million) to settle a federal lawsuit alleging that the company failed to accommodate a Jewish employee’s observance of Shabbat, and later fired him...
JTA – The plaza that became the centre of Israel’s campaign to bring home the 251 captives Hamas seized on 7 October is now formally called “Hostages Square”, establishing a...
JTA – When Iris Meiri-Snir moved from Israel to northern Italy last month, she gave up a job she loved, proximity to her children and grandchildren,...
JTA – A federal judge threw out the Trump administration’s lawsuit that had accused Harvard University of having “turned a blind eye” to Jewish and Israeli...
JTA – About a month before the 7 October massacres, the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), was unveiled at the G20 summit in New Delhi. Envisioned as a network of...
JTA – New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was asked on Wednesday by City & State reporter Fariha Rahman whether the New York Police Department (NYPD) would continue with its...
JTA – Jewish businessmen Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner are purchasing the NBA’s storied Los Angeles Lakers, ESPN reported in Wednesday, in a stunning, record-setting $12.5 billion (R202.1 billion) deal. The sale comes barely...
JTA – New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani met a group of rabbis on Monday, 10 August, for a conversation that centred on concerns about the impact of his rhetoric...
JTA – An animal welfare group’s appeal to an Israeli court is delaying plans to surround a high security prison for Palestinians with Nile crocodiles. The...
JTA – By mid-morning on Saturday, 8 August, the alleys surrounding Cafe Basimta were filled with Haredi Orthodox demonstrators protesting against the cafe’s decision to open...
JTA – At the entrance to Nikšić, Montenegro’s second-largest city, a vintage fighter jet painted in the colours of the Israeli Air Force perches atop a...
JTA – Reykjavik in the autumn of 1935 was a small fishing port of corrugated-iron houses battered by high winds, cod trawlers idling in the harbour, and...
