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Ramaz alumni and administrators react to report of sexual abuse at elite Jewish school

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Published September 4, 2018

Man arrested for committing sexual assault at Brooklyn Reform synagogue

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Published August 30, 2018

Josh Shapiro, the ‘bar mitzvah boy’ leading the charge against Catholic clergy abuse in Pennsylvania

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Published August 29, 2018

Victims of mikvah-peeping rabbi reach $14.25 million settlement with his synagogue

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Published August 28, 2018

In West Bank settlements, the housing market is booming

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Published August 23, 2018

Here’s how JTA covered the real-life story of ‘Operation Finale’ and Eichmann’s capture

Ben Sales
Published August 20, 2018

Amy Siskind has been called a face of the anti-Trump resistance. Liberal critics claim she is an impostor.

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Published August 16, 2018

Ronald Lauder helped make Benjamin Netanyahu prime minister. Now he’s publicly opposing him.

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Published August 14, 2018

Hydrox, the original kosher sandwich cookie, is accusing Oreo of sabotage

Ben Sales
Published August 10, 2018

Left-wing activists claim that Israel is trying to intimidate them at the country’s border

Ben Sales
Published August 10, 2018

The latest clashes between Israel and Hamas may have started because of a mistake

Ben Sales
Published August 9, 2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cheered at arts conference hosted by Jewish museum

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Published August 7, 2018

Randi Weingarten wants the teachers’ union to love Israel. That’s why she is criticizing it publicly.

Ben Sales
Published August 6, 2018

At 20, Jacob Wohl wants to be the face and voice of young Jewish Trump supporters

Ben Sales
Published August 6, 2018

The fall of a top sociologist could change the field of counting Jews

Ben Sales
Published August 3, 2018

Here’s how Birthright guides talk about the Palestinians

Ben Sales
Published July 27, 2018

A political cartoon costs an Israeli artist his job

Ben Sales
Published July 25, 2018

These Jews are running summer camps for refugee children

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Published July 24, 2018

Why Israel detained a rabbi for performing a wedding — and why people are angry about it

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Published July 20, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won’t delete Holocaust denial posts

Ben Sales
Published July 18, 2018

Prominent Jewish philanthropist questioned by Israeli airport security after visiting Palestinian areas

Ben Sales
Published July 18, 2018

This Jewish professor beaten by police says he’ll keep coming back to Germany

Ben Sales
Published July 17, 2018

Filipino guest workers come to Israel — and decide to embrace Judaism

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Published July 6, 2018

This Jewish man survived World War II — in Axis-era Japan

Ben Sales
Published June 29, 2018

They tried to take Judaism out of synagogue spaces. Now they’re coming back to them.

Ben Sales
Published June 28, 2018

This National Review columnist is defending the Spanish Inquisition. Seriously.

Ben Sales
Published June 27, 2018

This Orthodox rabbi just took a job at an LGBT synagogue

Ben Sales
Published June 25, 2018

Paul Krugman says Trump’s immigration rhetoric is a blood libel

Ben Sales
Published June 23, 2018

Meet the millennial Mexican-American Jewish woman running for office on the southern border

Ben Sales
Published June 22, 2018

Hundreds of Jews protest at ICE headquarters in New York City

Ben Sales
Published June 21, 2018

10 rabbis are visiting separated families on the border

Ben Sales
Published June 21, 2018

Stephen Miller isn’t apologizing for families being separated at the border

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Published June 20, 2018

In Tel Aviv’s African neighborhood, asylum seekers strive for normal life

Ben Sales
Published June 18, 2018

Orthodox Union expresses concern over family separation at the border

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Published June 14, 2018

The man who’s run Chicago’s Jewish community for almost 40 years is stepping down

Ben Sales
Published June 11, 2018

Conservative camps respond after some counselors take left-wing course on Israel

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Published June 8, 2018

Why an Orthodox group says the Supreme Court’s cake shop ruling is good for the Jews

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Published June 5, 2018

Alex Jones failed at ambushing Bernie Sanders at an airport

Ben Sales
Published June 5, 2018

Why New Jersey’s Orthodox want to change a bill banning child marriages

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Published June 4, 2018

These Jewish camp counselors want to teach their kids about the occupation

Ben Sales
Published May 31, 2018

Israel’s conversion laws are about to get stricter

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Published May 31, 2018

Michael Chabon attacks Jewish inmarriage and Israel’s occupation in speech to new rabbis

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Published May 25, 2018

Philip Roth showed me how to be an American Jew

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Published May 23, 2018

As night falls, Jerusalem’s old-school Jewish market transforms into a hipster hangout

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Published May 22, 2018

Could Israel’s army have acted differently on the Gaza border? Experts disagree.

Ben Sales
Published May 18, 2018

This lawyer yelled at restaurant employees for speaking Spanish. Now he’s in trouble.

Ben Sales
Published May 17, 2018

Israel defends Gaza crackdown as self-defense

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Published May 15, 2018

Why this rabbinical student is celebrating Shavuot at an IHOP

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Published May 15, 2018

Neighbors of the new US embassy in Jerusalem are worried — about traffic and rising rents

Ben Sales
Published May 14, 2018

Amid renewed talk of war, Israelis are keeping calm and carrying on

Ben Sales
Published May 9, 2018

Netanyahu praises US withdrawal from Iran deal as ‘correct, intelligent and courageous’

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Published May 8, 2018

How Israel’s tech scene is helping wounded combat veterans

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Published May 7, 2018

Meet the first two Israeli riders — both named Guy — to compete in Grand Tour of cycling

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Published May 4, 2018

Israel told its citizens not to light bonfires on Lag b’Omer. They did it anyway.

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Published May 3, 2018

The Italian cycling champion who saved Jews during the Holocaust is given honorary Israeli citizenship

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Published May 2, 2018

Some rabbis say it isn’t kosher to borrow from Quicken Loans — because it’s run by Jews

Ben Sales
Published May 1, 2018

3 Jewish groups are accusing ZOA of defamation. The Zionist group is bringing its own charges.

Ben Sales
Published April 30, 2018

Israeli consulate in New York locked down for two hours following threat

Ben Sales
Published April 27, 2018

What a new memorial for black lynching victims learned from Holocaust commemoration

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Published April 26, 2018

Why Jewish organizations are mostly playing it safe on issues like gun control and refugees

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Published April 25, 2018

Does Judaism allow torture? These college students tried to find out.

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Published April 16, 2018

How Washington, D.C. got a bunch of new kosher restaurants

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Published April 13, 2018

My ancestors died in the Holocaust. I just found out about it.

Ben Sales
Published April 12, 2018

Columbia students hold anti-Israel demonstration opposite Holocaust commemoration booth

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Published April 12, 2018

After its latest strike on Syria, Israel’s cozy relationship with Russia could be over

Ben Sales
Published April 10, 2018

Israel at 70: How 1948 changed American Jews

Ben Sales
Published April 2, 2018

Conservative Judaism’s leadership turns over. Will intermarriage policy be next?

Ben Sales
Published March 30, 2018

Kosher supermarkets hate cleaning for Passover as much as you do

Ben Sales
Published March 27, 2018

Mega-donors are taking over Jewish philanthropy, new study says

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Published March 26, 2018

Thousands in London protest anti-Semitism in UK Labour Party

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Published March 26, 2018

Stephen Colbert worked out with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He barely kept up.

Ben Sales
Published March 22, 2018

The Rothschilds and the weather: What you need to know about the anti-Semitic conspiracies about the banking family

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Published March 21, 2018

These North American baby boomers teach Israeli kids English

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Published March 20, 2018

Cynthia Nixon gave a Shabbat sermon in 2011 — and praised Andrew Cuomo

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Published March 19, 2018

Malcolm Hoenlein says his role with Israeli gas giant is ‘completely transparent’

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Published March 16, 2018

Israel is the star at a national security conference in Mississippi

Ben Sales
Published March 14, 2018

Jews agree that Farrakhan is anti-Semitic. After that, it gets complicated.

Ben Sales
Published March 11, 2018

Most US Jews oppose Trump. He was cheered at AIPAC. Awkward?

Ben Sales
Published March 6, 2018

In Israel, Netanyahu is embattled. At AIPAC, he was at home.

Ben Sales
Published March 6, 2018

U.S. will withdraw from Iran deal unless it is fixed soon, Pence tells AIPAC

Ben Sales
Published March 5, 2018

Why more Orthodox Jews are going to AIPAC

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Published March 5, 2018

An ‘Annie Hall’ remake, starring two senior citizens

Ben Sales
Published March 2, 2018

Louis Farrakhan is an anti-Semite. Is he still relevant?

Ben Sales
Published March 2, 2018

Meet the Jewish teenager from Maryland running to be governor of Kansas

Ben Sales
Published February 27, 2018

Prominent NY Jewish day school will support student walkouts to protest gun violence

Ben Sales
Published February 27, 2018

Parkland students begin to heal at Jewish conference in New York

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Published February 26, 2018

In Democratic race for Illinois governor, the two top candidates are Jewish. The similarity ends there.

Ben Sales
Published February 23, 2018

The accusations against Benjamin Netanyahu: What you need to know

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Published February 22, 2018

Can Jewish charities do good and make money? Impact investors say yes.

Ben Sales
Published February 21, 2018

Aunt of Jewish Florida school shooting victim pleads for an end to ‘the sickness that has gripped our country’

Ben Sales
Published February 16, 2018

The Jewish sheriff leading the response to the Florida school shooting quotes the Talmud

Ben Sales
Published February 15, 2018

Virgin Atlantic Airlines called a couscous dish Palestinian, and people got very upset

Ben Sales
Published February 14, 2018

Bay Area Jews are less religious and care less about Israel than other American Jewish communities

Ben Sales
Published February 13, 2018

Israel, Iran and Syria just traded blows. Does this mean war?

Ben Sales
Published February 12, 2018

The youngest Schindler’s list survivor is still telling her story

Ben Sales
Published February 6, 2018

There’s a podcast about Jewish summer camp

Ben Sales
Published February 5, 2018

At this Jewish camp, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor teaches kids Yiddish

Ben Sales
Published February 2, 2018

Orthodox Union will not penalize synagogues that already have women clergy

Ben Sales
Published January 31, 2018

In the #MeToo era, these synagogues are banning Shlomo Carlebach songs

Ben Sales
Published January 30, 2018

Super Bowl tourists will see a Holocaust photo exhibit at the Minneapolis airport

Ben Sales
Published January 26, 2018