(JTA) — Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., a pro-Israel stalwart and one of the most influential Jewish lawmakers, said she will not run for re-election to Congress next year.
(JTA) — Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., a pro-Israel stalwart and one of the most influential Jewish lawmakers, said she will not run for re-election to Congress next year.
(JTA) — As Jews around the world were marking the holiest day of the year on Oct. 9, news broke of an attack near a synagogue in the German city of Halle. With some 50 worshippers gathered for the Yom Kippur service, the gunman tried to enter the synagogue and, when that failed, shot a woman…
(JNS) References to Israel, the Jewish people and peace have been removed from 2019-20 Palestinian Authority textbooks, according to a recent study.
(JNS) U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iran of lying about an oil delivery to Syria through its oil tanker Adrian Darya 1, which was impounded by the United Kingdom off Gibraltar in July and released the following month despite last-minute efforts by the United States to halt its …
(JNS) A car was damaged by a bullet outside Elon University in North Carolina on Oct. 9, as community members attended services towards the end of Yom Kippur.
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(JNS) A woman in Portland, Ore., marked her 50th birthday last week by donating a kidney to a fellow Jewish mother.
(JTA) — A Tallahassee, Florida jury has found a man guilty in the murder of Dan Markel, a Jewish law professor shot outside his home in 2014.
(JNS) The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Oct. 11 that it has enacted secondary sanctions against an Iranian vehicle manufacturer and an Iranian individual accused of providing support for the regime’s ballistic-missile program.
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(JNS) The American Jewish population has grown 10 percent in the last seven years and is mostly liberal, 65 or older and white, according to a new American Jewish population estimate of the 48 contiguous U.S. states by Brandeis University’s Steinhardt Social Research Institute.
(JTA) — On Oct. 9, federal authorities arrested Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas at a Washington-area airport and charged the Ukrainian-American businessmen with campaign finance violations.
(JNS) The Council for Higher Education in Israel (CHE) this week officially launched the national initiative “Study in Israel” to double the number of international students enrolled in Israeli colleges and universities, initially targeting students in North America, China and India.
(JTA) — Two children riding bicycles were killed in two incidents in Israel on Oct. 9.
(JNS) The Jerusalem College of Technology recently announced the launch of the Torah and Technology Research Center, which will provide specialized expertise necessary to respond to the complex ethical and halachic (Jewish legal) issues of our times.
(JTA) — Archaeological excavations in northern Israel in preparation to build a highway off-ramp uncovered a 5,000-year-old city that was home to as many as 6,000 residents.
(JTA) — Israel’s Yamina alliance of right-wing parties split into two factions.
(JTA) — The German man suspected of killing two people near a synagogue on Yom Kippur has confessed to the attack and said that he had anti-Semitic and far-right motives, the German federal prosecutor’s officer said.
(JNS) A team of four Israeli heart specialists traveled to a hospital in Cyprus with life-saving technology to save a woman who was suffering cardiac issues following childbirth, the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer revealed on Facebook on Oct. 6.
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Recognizing that society is at a critical point in the relationship with Israel, a relationship strained by increasingly divergent political views and priorities, the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati has been holding a series of community conversations through its initiative We Need to Talk. …
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An exhibition featuring nine of the most important Israeli artists of the 20th century continues at the Skirball Museum at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion through Jan. 5, 2020.
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(JNS) Sigal Mandelker, who has played a crucial role in the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign against Iran, is expected to leave her position in a few weeks as U.S. undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, announced the U.S. Treasury Department on Oct. 2.
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(JNS) Robert Kraft, chairman and CEO of the Kraft Group and owner of the New England Patriots football team, announced on Oct. 6 the hiring of Rachel Fish as the founding executive director of the Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism.
Two Cincinnati synagogues – Golf Manor Synagogue and Congregation Sha’arei Torah – are participating in the Orthodox Union Women’s Initiative Simchat Torah program this year.
The Cincinnati Associates of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion invite the community to attend the 36rd annual Cincinnati Associates Tribute Dinner on Sunday evening, Oct. 27 at the Hyatt Regency Cincinnati.
On Friday, Oct. 25, a special musical and communal Shabbat experience will take place at Wise Center.
(JNS) Dozens of Palestinians rioted on Oct. 6 following the pilgrimage of some 1,000 Jews, under Israeli security escort, to the Tomb of Joseph in Shechem/Nablus to pray. The rioters threw firebombs and burning tires at security personnel.
(JTA) — An alleged leader of the terror cell behind the deadly bombing of a West Bank nature reserve has been arrested.
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(JTA) — The sister of Solomon Tekah, the Ethiopian-Israeli teen shot in July by an off-duty police officer, immigrated to Israel.
(JTA) — Alleged child sex offender Malka Leifer will be released to house arrest while a new panel of psychiatric experts evaluates whether she is mentally fit to face extradition and trial, the Jerusalem District Court ruled.
(JTA) — The accused gunman in the deadly shooting at a San Diego-area synagogue pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder.
(JTA) — A prominent Connecticut rabbi was found guilty of sexual assault of a minor.
(JTA) — Police said a Jewish woman reported being harassed in Brooklyn on Sept 30.
(JTA) — A Jewish death row inmate in Texas who says his judge was anti-Semitic was granted a stay of execution by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
(JTA) — A Swedish political party has voted to change its official stance in favor of banning circumcision.
(JTA) Two reports of anti-Semitic bullying at schools in Australia are receiving widespread media coverage.
(JNS) As many as 405,000 tourists visited Israel in September—a 44 percent jump from last year, according to the Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics in a report published on Oct. 3.
(JTA) — Arab-Israeli communities held a general strike on Oct. 3 to protest an uptick in violent crime and the lack of an effective police response.
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(JNS) Jewish and Arab astronauts launched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on Set. 25 headed for the International Space Station.
(JNS) Palestinian Authority security forces arrested three Islamic Jihad operatives in Judea and Samaria, together with a prototype rocket they had constructed, according to Israel’s Channel 12.
(JNS) Berlin authorities banned on Sept. 25 two Palestinians rappers who glorify terrorism against Israel from performing at a pro-Palestinian rally following pressure by Israeli and U.S. ambassadors to Germany.
(JTA) — An Ohio man who identifies with the white nationalist movement was indicted in federal court for using a firearm while making threats against the Youngstown Jewish Community Center in a video posted on social media.
(JTA) — The OK hand gesture and the bowl-cut hairstyle are among 36 new entries to the Anti-Defamation League’s online listing of hate symbols.
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(JTA) — A Bnei Brak rabbi has refused to officiate at the marriage of the son of Avigdor Liberman, the head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party.
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