BOSTON (JTA) – Ownership of the country’s oldest synagogue and its valuable religious and ritual objects is being decided by a federal appeals court.
The hearing of the case by a …
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3/16/17
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint meeting of Congress is getting rave reviews for the subdued, “presidential” style of his delivery, and positive …
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RON KAMPEAS
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3/2/17
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JTA – Disney has severed its relationship with the popular YouTube star known as PewDiePie after millions of people viewed his videos featuring anti-Semitic content.
In a Jan. 11 video …
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2/16/17
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was his impression that President Donald Trump’s administration now understands that the meaning of the Holocaust was the …
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2/16/17
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JTA – Howard Schultz, the Jewish billionaire CEO of Starbucks, said his company plans to hire 10,000 refugees over five years in a letter to employees addressing President Donald …
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2/2/17
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They came – the young, the old, entire families and collections of fast friends, those aided by canes and others in wheelchairs.
This undulating mass of humanity, including …
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SHARON FRIEDMAN
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2/2/17
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – “Cantor Kaufman!” Rabbi Jonah Pesner shouted across the intersection of 3rd and D in Washington’s Northwest quadrant, packed sidewalk to sidewalk with women …
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RON KAMPEAS
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2/2/17
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JTA – A year after they submitted their application for asylum in the United States, Shahi and his mother expected to be let in.
As Iranian Jews who applied for asylum through …
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Cnaan Liphshiz
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2/2/17
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JTA – American Jews are watching the beginning of Donald Trump’s presidency with both fear and hope.
Many have expressed worries about some of his …
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JOSEFIN DOLSTEN
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2/2/17
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ROME (JTA) – A road race passing sites of Holocaust and Jewish remembrance in Rome will highlight events in Italy marking International Holocaust Memorial Day.
The “Run for …
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1/20/17
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