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Why Trump dominated Jewish coverage of the 2016 campaign

BY JTA – On Monday [Nov. 7], one day before Election Day, I received a call from a reader. She identified herself as a Reform Jew, 46, from Chicago. She had praise for JTA and our … more

ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL | 11/11/16

Dylan over Roth? The Nobel Committee made the right choice

JTA – As a fan who runs the “Bob Dylan: Tangled Up in Jews” website, I should have been ecstatic at the Nobel Prize in Literature being awarded to the writer whose words have been … more

LARRY YUDELSON | 10/28/16

Clockwise from top left: Ian Kinsler, Danny Valencia, Kevin Pillar, Joc Pederson

How Jewish MLB players did in 2016

JTA – This season promised to be a banner year for Jewish Major League Baseball players – and by and large, the class of ’16 fared pretty well. Many had their best seasons in years … more

RON KAPLAN | 10/28/16

Vice President Joe Biden addressing public attendees and congregants of Washington’s Adas Israel on Oct. 6 at a National Memorial Service honoring former Israel president Shimon Peres.

Biden, remembering Peres, pleads for triumph of tolerance over bigotry

WASHINGTON (JTA) – Vice President Joe Biden said Shimon Peres’ legacy should be one of tolerance at a time of rising bigotry. “At a time when the currents of bigotry … more

RON KAMPEAS | 10/13/16

Tampa City Council approves fence around new JCC

JTA – The Tampa City Council in Florida approved a 6-foot-high fence around the new branch of the Jewish Community Centers despite opposition by council members and community members. The … more

10/13/16

Jewish cemetery in N.Y. vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti

JTA – A Jewish cemetery in New York state’s Orange County was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti. The outer wall of the cemetery in Warwick, a suburban town about 90 minutes north … more

10/13/16

Facebook exec, Rwanda survivor among 5 tapped for Holocaust memorial council

JTA – A Facebook vice president and a human rights advocate who survived the Rwandan genocide are among five people appointed to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. Elliot Schrage, the … more

10/13/16

Study shows how Jewish vote could play crucial role in key states

BOSTON (JTA) – A new study, touted as the first-ever state-by-state, county-by-county Jewish population estimate, shows how the Jewish vote could play a crucial role in … more

PENNY SCHWARTZ | 10/13/16

Jacob Neusner, influential scholar of rabbinic Judaism, dies

JTA – Jacob Neusner, one of the most influential voices in American Jewish intellectual life in the past half-century, has died. Neusner, one of the most published authors in … more

10/13/16

Tay, Microsoft’s artificial intelligence tweeting robot

5776: A review of major events in the Jewish world

(Part two of two) JTA – A stabbing and car-ramming epidemic in Israel that some called a third intifada was among the most dominant Jewish stories of the past year. But … more

BEN HARRIS | 9/29/16