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Opinion: Dropping the J From JTA – Standing up for Ivanka Trump
New York (VINnews/By Rabbi Yair Hoffman) - Once upon a time there was a news agency that specialized in news that affected the Jewish community and the Jewish world, in general. This was its mandate, ...
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The next JTank competition from Ami Magazine will be taking place in a few days. In response to the deluge of requests, Ami has opened up an additional presentation slot. This i...
Washington – JTA Report: The O.U. Has An Open Door In The White House
Washington - As a strong backer of President Bush's faith-based initiative, the Orthodox Union's Nathan Diament was no stranger at the White House during the past eight years. At several meetings he w...
New York – JTA: Yeshiva University Has Lost Tens Of Millions In Madoff Ponzi Scheme
New York - Yeshiva University has suffered major losses related to the securities fraud of Bernard Madoff, sources close to the university said.
Madoff, the founder of Bernard L. Madoff Investment ...
A Florida Bill Banning ‘Ethnic Intimidation’ Flyers Aims To Stop The State’s Neo-nazi Rise
FLORIDA (JTA) - Responding to a recent rise in neo-Nazi activity in his state, a Jewish lawmaker in Florida is trying to outlaw displays of “religious or ethnic animus” on private property in his stat...
Abraham Zarem, One Of The Last Surviving Manhattan Project Scientists, Dies At 106
NEW YORK (JTA) - Abraham Zarem was 28 when he joined the Manhattan Project, the vast U.S. government effort to develop the atom bomb.
Engineers like him gathered in secret laboratories in New Mexic...
Team Israel Exits World Baseball Classic With 5-1 Loss To Venezuela
MIAMI (JTA) — They didn’t call it the “Pool of Death” for nothing.
After a 3-1 come-from-behind victory over Nicaragua on Sunday, Israel finished the World Baseball Classic with only one additional...
Bulgarian Jews Skipped An Official Ceremony Marking 80 Years Since Their Rescue From The Nazis. Why?
SOFIA (JTA) - Bulgaria’s president was on hand on Friday for a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the country’s dramatic decision to save its 48,000 Jews from the Nazis.
So were representativ...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Is Responsible For Shooting At German Synagogue, Officials Say
GERMANY (JTA) - After a century-old synagogue in Essen, Germany, was struck by two bullets last November, news reports connected it to the shooting at a synagogue in Halle three years earlier that had...
WATCH: Disgraced New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Announces New Pro-israel Group
NEW YORK (JTA)- Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has a new project, a year and a half after resigning amid a flurry of sexual harassment allegations: a pro-Israel organization targeting Democrats.
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Orthodox prospect Jacob Steinmetz shines for Team Israel in World Baseball Classic loss
MIAMI (JTA) — The final result wasn’t pretty for Israel, but it almost didn’t matter. This night belongs to Jacob Steinmetz.
The 19-year-old Woodmere, New York, native and the first Orthodox Jew to...
Eric Adams Wants To Combat Hate In NYC Through Interfaith Dinners. Can That Accommodate Orthodox Jews?
NEW YORK (JTA) - Mayor Eric Adams is famous for his love of the city’s nightlife, and that mood was on display last Thursday as he hobnobbed with more than 100 people at the 40/40 Club, an upscale bar...
Mike Bloomberg: Israel’s Judicial Reforms Could Make Brexit’s Economic Effects Look Like ‘Bubkes’
NEW YORK (JTA) - Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire media mogul, philanthropist and former New York mayor, is the latest pro-Israel stalwart to warn that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judi...
Connecticut College Students Are In Revolt After President’s Planned Talk At Florida Club With Antisemitic And Racist Past
CONNECTICUT (JTA) - When students at Connecticut College learned that their president had been planning to attend a fundraiser at a historically racist and antisemitic golf club, they began to organiz...
White House Says It Will Not Meet With Israel’s Bezalel Smotrich When He Visits The US
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Biden administration officials will not meet with Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli finance minister who called for a Palestinian village to be “wiped out” then backtracked, and who is v...
Israel’s Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Visits Taiwan In Milestone Moment For The Country’s Jewish Community
TAIPEI (JTA) — In what is likely a first, an Israeli chief rabbi visited Taiwan last week, marking a milestone both for the island nation and the Jewish community there.
Last week, the Jeffrey D....
Wikipedia’s ‘Supreme Court’ Tackles Alleged Conspiracy To Distort Articles On Holocaust
NEW YORK (JTA) - When a pair of professors earlier this month published a paper accusing a group of Wikipedia editors from Poland of revising articles to distort the history of the Holocaust, their re...
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander Threatens Yeshiva University: Accept LGBTQ Pride Club or Lose Funding
NEW YORK (JTA) - New York City’s comptroller sent Yeshiva University a letter regarding the Modern Orthodox institution’s ongoing court case against a student-led LGBTQ organization on campus in an ap...
As Orthodox Union And Other Jewish Groups Condemn Settler Rampage, Many Avoid Mentioning Benjamin Netanyahu
WASHINGTON (JTA) — As American Jewish organizations responded to Sunday’s settler riot in the West Bank, most began with statements of condemnation.
One began with a question: “How can such a thing...
US Says American Citizen Killed By Palestinian Terrorist
JERUSALEM (JTA) - An American citizen in his 20s was killed in a shooting on Monday near the Palestinian city of Jericho in the eastern West Bank, the latest attack in an escalating wave of Israeli-Pa...