A Rhode Island judge has ruled in favor of a historic New York City synagogue that is seeking to remove the leadership of the congregation that meets at another historic synagogue building – …
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ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL with local reports
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9/3/23
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(JTA) – Israel won its first-ever gold medals at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Valencia, Spain, last weekend, improving on last year’s silver medal and solidifying its …
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9/3/23
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American Jewish organizations reacted to the news that Robert Bowers, the man who murdered 11 Jews at prayer in 2018, has been sentenced to death. Groups stressed in their comments that the …
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JTA STAFF
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8/4/23
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(JTA) – I read a lot about antisemitism – as a professor researching prejudice, as a former fellow at a Holocaust memorial center, as a blogger for The Times of Israel, as the son of a …
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TODD L. PITTINSKY
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7/7/23
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(JTA) – Brandeis University’s president has apologized to the school’s Orthodox Jewish student group for a university ad that called the school “anything but Orthodox.”
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BEN SALES
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7/7/23
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(JTA) – An umbrella association of American Orthodox rabbis is calling on the Russian government to release Evan Gershkovich, the imprisoned Jewish reporter for the Wall Street Journal.
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6/1/23
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(JTA) – For years, a subset of Jews who eat only at kosher-certified restaurants have bent the rules by taking advantage of a growing trend: fully vegan eateries.
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JACKIE HAJDENBERG
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6/1/23
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Rabbi Michael Wolk was nervous when he stepped foot onto his synagogue’s bimah in May 2021 – but not because his congregation was returning to in-person prayer after a pandemic …
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JACKIE HAJDENBERG
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5/4/23
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PROVIDENCE – On Feb. 7, some 40 people gathered to learn about the Jewish climate movement’s efforts to fight climate change both locally and nationally.
Jakir Manela, CEO of the …
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FRAN OSTENDORF
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2/16/23
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(JTA) – Eric Alterman, born in 1960, says the view of Israel he absorbed growing up in a Jewish family in suburban Scarsdale, New York, was decidedly …
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ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
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2/3/23
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