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U.S. President Donald Trump, left, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

The Jewish year in review: #MeToo, the embassy move and a growing gap between Israel and the Diaspora

JTA – For North American Jews, the Jewish year 5778 began with tensions between Israel and the Diaspora over egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall and ended with more tension over a … more

Ben Harris | 9/7/18

Postcard from Montreal: Lots of great eating here

MONTREAL – We are in the celebrated Schwartz’s Charcuterie Hebraique de Montréal, or Montreal Hebrew Delicatessen, renowned for its smoked meat sandwiches. You will love this … more

M. CHARLES BAKST | 9/7/18

Brazilian Christians urged to buy settlement goods to counter boycott

JTA – Christian and Jewish Zionists in Brazil are marketing Israeli products targeted for boycott. Titled “Support 729 – I endorse,” the project was launched in December in Brasilia, the Brazilian capital, at an event attended by at … more

1/16/15

Jewish descendants can sue Germany for return of Nazi-looted collection, US court rules

JTA – A U.S. court has cleared the way for descendants of Jewish art collectors to sue Germany in the United States over objects allegedly obtained from their ancestors under duress during the … more

4/7/17

Stephen Hazan Arnoff named new CEO of JCC Association

JTA – Stephen Hazan Arnoff was named the new chief executive officer of the Jewish Community Center Association. Arnoff succeeds Alan Finkelstein, who announced last year he would retire from the position after more than two decades. Arnoff … more

1/16/15

Holocaust survivor, 91, celebrates her Bat Mitzvah in Buenos Aires

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) – Eugenia Unger, who usually displays the number tattooed on her arm by the Nazis, covered it with her Shabbat clothes and her tallit as she celebrated her Bat … more

4/7/17

When El Al flew to Tehran

JTA – Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, fell on April 23. In honor of the Jewish state’s 67th birthday, we present, in no particular order, 10 little-known aspects of its history. 1. El Al used to fly to Tehran. Iran … more

URIEL HEILMAN | 4/23/15

Haimish Havana

HAVANA – A friendly welcome, a sense of joy, an air of need. This is what my granddaughter and I encountered on a recent visit to the largest synagogue in Cuba’s Jewish community, which once numbered 15,000 or more. But when Fidel Castro’s Revolution triumphed in 1959 and began confiscating businesses, most Jews fled. Today there are only 1,200, nearly all in Havana, where the main congregation is housed in this building with an impressive white front. There is a soaring arch, a Star of David and doors emblazoned with symbols of the Tribes of Israel. more

M. CHARLES BAKST | 10/13/16

Overhead view of a row of damaged structures in the Bahamas.

Jewish groups provide emergency help to the Bahamas in the wake of Hurricane Dorian

(JTA) — The Israel-based humanitarian group IsraAID, B’nai B’rith International and Chabad are among those pitching in to help the Bahamas in the wake of Hurricane Dorian’s … more

Marcy Oster | 9/4/19

In Germany, several churches have perverse anti-Semitic sculptures from the Middle Ages. Can one man get them taken down?

BERLIN (JTA) – They date back to the late Middle Ages and irritate to this day: The Judensau (literally “Jewish sow”) is a Christian folk image that depicts Jews sucking on the teats or peering … more

Toby Axelrod | 6/24/20