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Michael Black of Belfast Hebrew Congregation shows off the synagogue's memorial wall in March 2025.

Northern Ireland’s lone synagogue engages Christian neighbors to stave off decline

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 … more

ROSARIO DEL VALLE, JTA | 6/5/25

Argentina declassifies more than 1,800 Nazi-era files

(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 … more

GRACE GILSON | 5/12/25

Israeli leaders threaten ‘war’ in the West Bank after terror attack

(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 … more

BEN SALES | 1/9/25

Andorra gets first full-time rabbi

(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. … more

PHILISSA CRAMER | 12/8/24

All the Jewish medalists at the 2024 Paris Olympics

(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 … more

JACOB GURVIS | 8/14/24

Clockwise from left: Nick Itkin, Artem Dolgopyat, Lonah Chemtai Salpeter, Amit Elor, Sagi Muki, Jemima Montag, Claire Weinstein, Daniel Peretz.

Jewish athletes to watch in the 2024 Paris Olympics

(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 … more

JACOB GURVIS | 7/16/24

Israel’s Labor, Meretz parties merge

(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 … more

BEN SALES | 7/5/24

Exhausted by the Israel discourse? Blame backlash fatigue.

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. more

Andrew Silow-Carroll — JTA | 6/7/24

A moral dilemma I hope no American has to face

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 … more

5/10/24

Hadassah celebrated 50 years of gift wrapping at the Warwick Mall.

9 stories that defined our Jewish year in 2023 before Oct. 7

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 … more

BEN SALES (JTA) | 1/7/24