BELFAST, Northern Ireland – On Saturdays, the Jewish day of rest, there is barely a quorum of 10 for prayers at the old synagogue in Northern Ireland’s capital city. But every other …
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ROSARIO DEL VALLE, JTA
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6/5/25
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(JTA) – The Argentine government announced the release of nearly 1,850 classified documents that show how Nazi fugitives escaped to the country after World War II.
The trove of documents …
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GRACE GILSON
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5/12/25
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(JTA) – Israeli leaders are threatening to unleash a war on terror groups in the West Bank in the wake of a shooting attack that killed three Israelis in the territory on Monday.
Defense …
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BEN SALES
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1/9/25
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(JTA) – The last few years have brought a string of Jewish milestones for Andorra, a tiny, landlocked microstate in the Pyrenees where non-Catholic houses of worship are prohibited by law.
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PHILISSA CRAMER
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12/8/24
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(JTA) – At the conclusion of the 2024 Paris Olympics Sunday, at least 21 Jewish athletes from the United States, Australia and Israel returned home with some new hardware: The tally includes …
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JACOB GURVIS
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8/14/24
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(JTA) – There are veterans like an Australian gold medalist canoe paddler and Israel’s powerhouse judo team. There are newcomers, like the youngest American female wrestler ever and …
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JACOB GURVIS
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7/16/24
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(JTA) – Israel’s Labor and Meretz parties announced on Sunday [June 30] that they would unite ahead of the next election in a bid to revive the country’s left and maximize its share …
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BEN SALES
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7/5/24
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I’d mostly forgotten about Ivan Boesky when I heard he died May 20 at age 87. But news of his death brought me back to some of my earliest assignments as a Jewish journalist – and how they relate to the controversial Washington Post story about a group of Jewish machers seeking to influence the debate over Israel.
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Andrew Silow-Carroll — JTA
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6/7/24
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My first husband, Dr. Joseph Stanley Rabianski, was born in Chicago to Polish Catholic parents. We lived in Georgia, and I taught at Georgia State University, and what was then, in the …
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5/10/24
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On Oct. 6, JTA led its morning newsletter with an article that had long been in the works – and that we expected to drive conversation in the days ahead: It was a profile of a Jewish dad in …
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BEN SALES (JTA)
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1/7/24
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