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Hamas Threatens to Shower Israel with Rockets for 6 Months

Hamas Threatens to Shower Israel with Rockets for 6 Months

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on Monday threatened that his group would fire rockets at Israel for six months continuously if the blockade on the Gaza… Read More ›

Yvette Lundy, French Resistance Member Who Helped Jewish Families, Dies At 103

Yvette Lundy, French Resistance Member Who Helped Jewish Families, Dies At 103

  FRANCE (JTA) – Yvette Lundy, a member of the French Resistance who provided false identification papers to Jewish families, has died. She was 103.… Read More ›

Multiple Boro Park Jews Targeted In Friday Night Assaults

Multiple Boro Park Jews Targeted In Friday Night Assaults

BORO PARK — In what has become an all too familiar scenario in New York, multiple Hasidic Jews were attacked on the streets of Boro… Read More ›

Israeli Yeshiva Student Passes Away After Falling 100 Feet Off Cliff

Israeli Yeshiva Student Passes Away After Falling 100 Feet Off Cliff

  RAMOT — In a adventure gone wrong, a 20-year-old Yeshiva student passed away after falling around 100 feet off a cliff on Monday. Yerachmiel… Read More ›

Pittsburgh victims remembered at anniversary ceremony with tears and prayers

Pittsburgh victims remembered at anniversary ceremony with tears and prayers

Jewish community joined by local leaders and other faiths at memorial held under banner of ‘Remember. Repair. Together,’ one year after gunman massacred 11 people… Read More ›

Squirrel Hill Jewish Day School Students Send Messages To Mass Shooting Victims

Squirrel Hill Jewish Day School Students Send Messages To Mass Shooting Victims

  PITTSBURGH (JTA) — Students at a Jewish day school in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh sent messages to marginalized groups and communities that… Read More ›

Secret aliyah and healing Israel-Diaspora rift – the Jewish Agency sets new goals

Secret aliyah and healing Israel-Diaspora rift – the Jewish Agency sets new goals

Agency’s trustees meet in Jerusalem to discuss three-pronged plan for work with Israeli government and Jewish communities and law enforcement bodies around the world The… Read More ›

A Year after Disaster, Pittsburgh Is so Much More than a Site of Tragedy

A Year after Disaster, Pittsburgh Is so Much More than a Site of Tragedy

For a period of time, Pittsburgh was the third-largest home to Fortune 500 companies behind New York and Chicago   As we approach the one… Read More ›

Nearly 9 in 10 American Jews Say Antisemitism Is a Problem in U.S.

Nearly 9 in 10 American Jews Say Antisemitism Is a Problem in U.S.

Asked if antisemitism had increased over the past five years, 84 percent said it had: 43 percent said a lot and 41 said somewhat.  … Read More ›

After Netanyahu can’t form coalition, Blue and White ‘determined’ to get it done

After Netanyahu can’t form coalition, Blue and White ‘determined’ to get it done

PM’s rivals rejoice over his second consecutive failure to build government, though Gantz’s own chances of doing so appear slim   The Blue and White… Read More ›

Hundreds of Israelis Protest Naama Issachar’s Arrest in Tel Aviv

Hundreds of Israelis Protest Naama Issachar’s Arrest in Tel Aviv

Issachar was arrested in April with 9.5 grams of cannabis in her checked luggage in Russia and was sentenced to a whopping seven and a… Read More ›

Teen dies of injuries from lightning strike near Ashkelon

Teen dies of injuries from lightning strike near Ashkelon

14-year-old Asher Hazut from Be’er Sheva was critically injured when the lightning hit him and four other family members as they took a Sukkot trip… Read More ›

Trio win Nobel Prize in economics for work on poverty

Trio win Nobel Prize in economics for work on poverty

Michael Kremer, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo receive award ‘for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty’; Duflo becomes second ever female winner   STOCKHOLM… Read More ›

Florida Jury Finds Hit-Man Guilty In Murder Of Jewish Law Professor

Florida Jury Finds Hit-Man Guilty In Murder Of Jewish Law Professor

  TALLAHASSEE (JTA) — A Tallahassee, Florida jury has found a man guilty in the murder of Dan Markel, a Jewish law professor shot outside… Read More ›

Germany Seeks To Reassure Rattled Jews After Holy Day Attack

Germany Seeks To Reassure Rattled Jews After Holy Day Attack

HALLE, Germany (AP) — Top German officials headed Thursday to the scene of an attack on a synagogue in the city of Halle, seeking to… Read More ›

Despite doomsday predictions, US Jewish community grew 10% in last seven years

Despite doomsday predictions, US Jewish community grew 10% in last seven years

New survey shows America’s estimated 7.5 million Jews are older, whiter and more liberal than country as a whole, and US has larger Jewish population… Read More ›

Tens Of Thousands Of Jews Pray At The Kotel On Eve Of Yom Kippur

Tens Of Thousands Of Jews Pray At The Kotel On Eve Of Yom Kippur

  JERUSALEM (JTA) — Tens of thousands of Jewish worshippers gathered at the Western Wall in Jerusalem for the final selichot, or penitential prayers, before… Read More ›

Opinion: Yom Kippur 5780: An Opportunity to Choose Life

Opinion: Yom Kippur 5780: An Opportunity to Choose Life

“The basic question is this: Given human nature, are any of us really capable of change?…   Sue Grafton opens her detective novel, R is… Read More ›

Who should and who shouldn’t fast on Yom Kippur?

Who should and who shouldn’t fast on Yom Kippur?

Ahead of the most sacred day on the Jewish calendar many are unaware whether fasting is healthy for them; how should we take our medication;… Read More ›

Israel shuts down for Yom Kippur

Israel shuts down for Yom Kippur

Airports, public transport cease operations, radio and television broadcasts go quiet and roads empty ahead of 25- hour Day of Atonement; IDF imposes closure on… Read More ›