JTA – Two of Israel’s most renowned authors and an Argentine first-time novelist are among six finalists for the Man Booker International Prize for fiction.
David Grossman’s …
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4/27/17
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JNS.ORG – With old alliances fraying and new threats emerging, making sense of the rapidly changing Middle East is increasingly difficult for even seasoned observers and analysts.
Disgruntled by President Barack Obama’s foreign policy …
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Sean Savage
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8/28/14
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If anyone ever faults you for playing poker, tell them this story. It happened in the 1930s in the Philippines. The Frieder brothers – Alex, Philip, Herbert and Morris – wanted to cut costs by relocating their cigar business from Manhattan to …
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Irina Missiuro
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12/5/13
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SYDNEY (JTA) – Queen Elizabeth II’s representative in Australia attended a Shabbat service at the Great Synagogue of Sydney.
Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove and his wife were met at the gates by the synagogue’s chief minister, Rabbi …
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12/11/15
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JTA – Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States soared 86 percent in the first three months of 2017 after rising by more than one-third in 2016, according to the Anti-Defamation …
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MARCY OSTER AND BEN SALES
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4/27/17
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(JTA) – As rap star Kanye West continually refuses to back down from his antisemitic rants, some of the many institutions he has ties with have begun to jump ship. The fashion tastemakers Balenciaga and Vogue have announced they will no longer be working with him. Hollywood talent giant CAA has dropped him, and a planned documentary about him has been scrapped.
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ANDREW LAPIN
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10/25/22
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(JTA) – Greek authorities arrested two men on Tuesday [March28] who were planning mass terrorist attacks on Jewish sites in Athens, including a Chabad outpost and a Jewish restaurant, according …
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4/2/23
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JTA – Three foundations have partnered for an initiative to promote global Jewish volunteering and service.
The launch of OLAM was announced March 24. The Alliance for Global Good, the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and the …
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3/26/15
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ANATEVKA, Ukraine (JTA) – At the age of 53, Sergey and Elena Yarelchenko fled their native city of Lugansk with three suitcases and moved into a wooden room in a muddy refugee camp outside …
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BY CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
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4/13/16
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(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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