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Israeli security forces at the scene where a missile fired from Iran hit a school in the town of Gedera, Oct. 1, 2024. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)

US sending troops to Israel

By Ben Sales, JTAPublished October 13, 2024

American troops will be stationed in Israel for the first time since Oct. 7, 2023, as the country prepares for ongoing conflict with Iran. The announcement that U.S. personnel would arrive came on the same day that a Hezbollah drone strike on a military...

Sir Paul McCartney and his wife Nancy Shevell leave a Yom Kippur service at Circulo Israelita de Santiago, Oct. 12, 2024. (Courtesy Circulo Israelita de Santiago)

Paul McCartney attends Yom Kippur services with little help from his friends

Juan Melamed, JTAPublished October 13, 2024

You could say he said sorry with a little help from his friends. Paul McCartney, the former Beatle, attended Yom Kippur services on Saturday with his Jewish wife in Santiago, Chile. He had performed a solo concert there on Friday night, the beginning...

"Why does the pig matter?" Jordan D. Rosenblum asks in, "Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig." (Steve Evans/Wikimedia Commons)

From snout to tail, a 3,000-year history of Jews and the pig

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAPublished October 13, 2024

In 2021, the Orthodox Union declined to certify Impossible Pork as kosher, despite approving other vegan “Impossible” products like its burger and chicken nuggets. Rabbi Menachem Genack, the CEO of the Orthodox Union’s kosher division, explained...

Claude Monet's pastel on paper, "Bord de Mer,” dated about 1865 and which was stolen from the Parlagi family in 1940 by the Nazis in Austria, is seen after its recovery by the FBI’s Art Crime Team. (FBI).

Family recovers Monet pastel generations after Nazi looting

Asaf Elia-Shalev, JTAPublished October 10, 2024

When Adalbert and Hilda Parlagi fled Vienna in 1938, a month after the Nazi annexation of Austria, they left behind a collection of artwork, which they and their heirs spent decades trying to retrieve. On Wednesday in New Orleans, FBI agents presented...

Ta-Nehisi Coates, an author and journalist, answered questions from Tiece Ruffin, director of Africana studies and professor of Africana studies and education at UNC Asheville, February 28, 2023.

‘CBS’ boss backs reporter after network says his Ta-Nehisi Coates interview didn’t meet standards

JNS StaffPublished October 9, 2024

Shari Redstone, the controlling shareholder of CBS parent company Paramount Global and daughter of the late Jewish billionaire Sumner Redstone, backed reporter Tony Dokoupil over his handling of a controversial interview with author Ta-Nehisi Coates about...

Top row, L-R: Jordan Harris, Quinn Hughes, Adam Fox and Luke Kunin. Bottom row, L-R: Jason Zucker, Zach Hyman, Jack Hughes and Jeremy Swayman. (Getty Images; Design by Grace Yagel)

All the Jewish NHL players to watch in the 2024-2025 season

Jacob Gurvis, JTAPublished October 8, 2024

As the NHL drops the puck on the 2024-2025 hockey season, Jewish fans will have plenty to root for. The season officially began last week with a pair of games in Prague between Jack and Luke Hughes’s New Jersey Devils and Devon Levi and Jason Zucker’s...

Protesters outside Columbia University, April 30, 2024. (Luke Tress)

Columbia pro-Palestinian group endorses violence, retracts apology for ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’ remark

Luke Tress, JTAPublished October 8, 2024

The most prominent pro-Palestinian student group at Columbia University walked back an apology it had issued for a student who said “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”  The statement on Tuesday from Columbia University Apartheid Divest also included...

Ina Garten's new memoir, "Be Ready When the Luck Happens," hit bookstores this month. (Crown)

In her long-awaited biography, superstar chef Ina Garten opens up about her abusive Jewish parents

Published October 8, 2024

It was, I thought, a Jewish food writer’s dream assignment. Nearly four years ago, during the first autumn of the COVID pandemic, I sat down (virtually) with food superstar Ina Garten. We discussed Ina Garten’s childhood food memories, diving deep...

President Donald Trump, accompanied by Chabad rabbis, praying at the Rebbe's Ohel.

Former President Trump marks Oct. 7 with prayer visit to Ohel

Chabad.org StaffPublished October 7, 2024

Marking one year since the Oct. 7 terror attack in Israel, former President Donald Trump paid a personal prayer visit on Monday afternoon to the Ohel in Queens, N.Y., the resting place of the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. Millions...

 U.S. President Joe Biden participates in a moment of silence at a remembrance ceremony on the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel in the Blue Room at the White House, Oct. 7, 2024. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Biden lights Oct. 7 yahrzeit candle as Kamala Harris vows to see Hamas threat ‘eliminated’

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished October 7, 2024

(JTA) — WASHINGTON — In separate statements marking the anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris said they continue to support Israel’s war against the group and its allies. Harris,...

Temple Israel in Minneapolis (Wikimedia Commons)

Minneapolis police arrest man for ‘terroristic threats’ made to synagogue on Rosh Hashanah 

Jacob Gurvis, JTAPublished October 7, 2024

The Minneapolis Police Department on Friday arrested a 21-year-old man for making “terroristic threats” against a local synagogue on Rosh Hashanah, three weeks after the man allegedly threatened to “shoot up” the synagogue. Jaden LeBlanc’s...

In an aerial view, a person rides past a destroyed church in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene flooding,  Swannanoa, North Carolina,  Oct. 6, 2024 .(Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Jewish officials handling hurricane communications face antisemitic harassment

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished October 7, 2024

WASHINGTON — Jewish government officials are being targeted with antisemitic attacks in a misinformation blitz hampering efforts to get critical information out to victims of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro...

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