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Orthodox Couple Asked To Leave Plane Because Of Alleged Body Odor Sues Airline For Discrimination
DETROIT (JTA) — An Orthodox Jewish couple from Detroit who were asked to exit an American Airlines plane because the pilot said they had offensive body odor have filed a federal lawsuit against the ai...
Jewish Group Launches Arabic-Language Video Series About Judaism
NEW YORK (JTA) - The American Jewish Committee launched a video series to introduce Arabic-speakers to Judaism.
Titled “An al-Yahud” (“About the Jews”), the series will feature videos on Jewish lif...
Ukrainian Senior Economist Says Ukrainians Let Jews ‘Dominate’ Them
KIEV (JTA) — A senior economist in Ukraine said the country’s leaders secretly are serving Israel.
Local Jews said Joseph Sytnik, a department head at the Lviv Polytechnic University, was espousing...
Jared Kushner Says Administration Does Not Support Annexing Settlements Before Israel’s Elections In March
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jared Kushner, an architect of the Trump administration’s peace plan, said the administration would not support the immediate annexing of West Bank settlements and suggested the actu...
Argentine Journalist Uses Conspiracy Theory About Jews To Explain Kobe Bryant’s Death
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — A journalist from Argentina’s state-run public television used a Jewish conspiracy theory to explain the death of NBA basketball great Kobe Bryant in a helicopter accid...
El Al Suspends All Flights To China Due To Coronavirus Outbreak
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Israel’s El Al Airlines will stop flying to China for two months due to the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
The airline announced that its flight arriving from Beijing on Thursd...
Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan Has 99 Problems, But Israeli Engineers Say A Tunnel Ain’t One
WASHINGTON (JTA) - President Donald Trump’s long-awaited peace plan has been met with plenty of skepticism since its release on Tuesday.
Could Trump actually be the one to settle a decades old conf...
What The Democratic Presidential Candidates Have Said About Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Democrats running for president have hewed to the party line in criticizing the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan rolled out by President Donald Trump: Unilateral annexation of set...
Swastikas And Anti-Semitic Graffiti Appears In Italy
ITALY (JTA) — Anti-Jewish graffiti was discovered in multiple locations in Italy as the country observed International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan 27.
On Monday night, the words “die dirty Jew...
French President Under Fire For Criticizing Decision Not To Hold Trial For Jewish Woman’s Murderer
PARIS (JTA) — French President Emmanuel Macron is under fire from top members of the judiciary after criticizing a court decision not to have a trial for a Jewish woman’s killer.
During a visit las...
The Key Points Of The Trump Middle East Peace Plan, Explained
WASHINGTON (JTA) - President Donald Trump unveiled his long-awaited Middle East peace plan on Tuesday, and the release event was a doozy.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined Trump at a...
Facebook Will Not Fact Check Statements By Israeli Politicians During Election Campaign
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Facebook is not planning to fact check statements made by Israeli politicians on the social network during upcoming national elections.
After extensive discussion of the issue, Fa...
Stolen Marc Chagall Painting Of ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ Sells For $130,000 At Auction In Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A painting by Jewish modernist Marc Chagall sold at auction for $130,000, the lowest estimated bid suggested by the auction house.
The buyer, from Tel Aviv, wishes to remain anony...
Brazilian Governor At Remembrance Ceremony Calls Holocaust ‘Humankind’s Day Of Shame’
SAO PAULO, Brazil (JTA) — The governor of Brazil’s largest state called the Holocaust “humankind’s day of shame” at the official ceremony to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Latin Ameri...
US Embassy In Jerusalem Issues Israel Security Alert As Peace Plan Unveiled
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Moments after President Donald Trump announced his Israeli-Palestinian peace plan in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem released a security alert that warned against tra...
Opinion: The Tragic Death Of An 8-Year-Old Palestinian Brought Jerusalem’s Jews And Arabs Together
JERUSALEM (JTA) — On Friday, in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, 8-year-old Qais Abd Abu Ramileh drowned in a pit filled by last week’s torrential rains. Reading the news after Shabbat, I wa...
She Has 6 Employees And Less Than $2 Million. The Mission: Stop Anti-Semitism In New York City
NEW YORK (JTA) — Earlier this month, Deborah Lauter stood in a Holocaust museum among students of color from a Brooklyn public school trying to explain why the museum is relevant to the current rise i...
Kate Middleton Shares Her Personal Portraits of Holocaust Survivors
LONDON (JTA) - Kate Middleton, the duchess of Kensington, has released photo portraits she took of two Holocaust survivors with their grandchildren.
The photos released on Monday, marked as Interna...
‘Jewish Nobel’ Prize Cuts Ties With Netanyahu’s Office
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office will no longer be involved with awarding the annual Genesis Prize, nicknamed the “Jewish Nobel,” in order to keep the honor from being seen as poli...
US Will Contribute $2 Million To Auschwitz-birkenau Foundation
WASHINGTON (JTA) - The United States will contribute $2 million to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The contri...