(JTA) — Israeli poetry scholar Rachel Korazim had been thinking about cutting back on travel when the coronavirus pandemic made the decision for her.
“I said I really want to shift my …
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Penina Beede
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7/23/20
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – The tens of thousands of Jewish pilgrims who travel each year to Ukraine for a Rosh Hashanah rite will have to make different plans for September.
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MARCY OSTER
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7/15/20
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This story originally appeared on The Nosher .
This may be surprising, but Jews have a long and very influential history in the alcohol industry spanning Europe, Israel and North America.
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Joel Haber
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7/10/20
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(JTA) — It was when Mark Zuckerberg said he would allow Holocaust denial on his platform that the Anti-Defamation League realized its partnership with Facebook wasn’t working.
The …
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Ben Sales
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7/2/20
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BERLIN ( JTA ) — In May, a demolition crew tore down a building in the western German city of Gelsenkirchen. As the walls fell, a 110-year-old advertising mural on the adjacent brick wall was …
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Toby Axelrod
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6/30/20
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(JTA) – Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit the New York region in March, the Orthodox community was on edge.
A surge in anti-Semitic incidents targeting visibly Orthodox Jews climaxed …
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Shira Hanau
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6/26/20
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BERLIN (JTA) – They date back to the late Middle Ages and irritate to this day: The Judensau (literally “Jewish sow”) is a Christian folk image that depicts Jews sucking on the teats or peering …
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Toby Axelrod
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6/24/20
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WASHINGTON ( JTA ) — Israel’s announcement last week that an Israeli consortium would build Sorek 2, the world’s largest desalination plant, surprised many who had been watching the deal: …
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Ron Kampeas
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6/3/20
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(JTA) – As the COVID-19 pandemic forces businesses and organizations to lay off employees and close up shop, two historic Reform synagogues in Brooklyn are entering merger discussions to …
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Shira Hanau
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6/2/20
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PARIS (JTA) — It has been a turbulent five years for the French capital’s residents. From the Charlie Hebdo and November 2015 terrorist attacks to the upheaval caused by the yellow vest …
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Lindsey Tramuta
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5/19/20
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