Josefin Dolsten, JTA
Four killed in shooting in New Jersey kosher shop
Josefin Dolsten, JTADec 12, 2019
NEW YORK — The gunmen who entered a Jersey City kosher supermarket and engaged in a deadly shootout with police deliberately chose the store, the city’s mayor said....
Trump lays it on at Israel-US confab
Josefin Dolsten, JTADec 12, 2019
HOLLYWOOD, Fla.— President Donald Trump slammed American Jews who he said did not sufficiently “love Israel.” “So many of you voted for the people in the last...
Sen. Bennet discusses Israel at J Street
Josefin Dolsten, JTAOct 31, 2019
WASHINGTON — Since announcing his presidential run in May, Michael Bennet has been polling between zero and 1%. He didn’t qualify for the latest Democratic debate...
Japanese-American artist paints mural of Nazi fighter Hannah Senesh
Josefin Dolsten, JTAOct 10, 2019
OKLAHOMA CITY — Hannah Senesh may seem an unlikely motivation for Japanese-born artist Julie Robertson. But the 35-year-old Christian artist, who just spent four days...
Rabbi says image of ‘sin city’ is off
Josefin Dolsten, JTAOct 10, 2019
LAS VEGAS — Congregation Ner Tamid is located a half an hour drive away from the Las Vegas Strip, where each luxury hotel seems more extravagant than the next and...
In ‘The Spy’, Sacha Baron Cohen stars as agent Eli Cohen
Josefin Dolsten, JTASep 12, 2019
NEW YORK — For “Borat,” his 2006 film, Sacha Baron Cohen went undercover as a made-up Kazakh journalist who travels America and gets unwitting targets to share his...
Most Jews in Hong Kong are sitting out protests
Josefin Dolsten, JTAAug 29, 2019
HONG KONG — Since early June, protesters in Hong Kong have been gathering multiple times a week to fight Chinese attempts to encroach on their freedoms. The police...
Parents lobby Congress to stop suicide among military
Josefin Dolsten, JTAAug 01, 2019
PHOENIX — In 2007, Sgt. Daniel Somers returned home after two tours in Iraq, where he worked in intelligence and special operations. For years he struggled to get on...
In ‘Tel Aviv on Fire’ Salam inhabits two worlds
Josefin Dolsten, JTAAug 01, 2019
NEW YORK — In “Tel Aviv on Fire,” the main character travels every day between Ramallah and Jerusalem. In the Palestinian city, Salam works as a production...
Voice over the moon
Josefin Dolsten, JTAJul 25, 2019
NEW YORK — In the 1960s, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and John Glenn were household names, idolized as G-d-like figures by a public enraptured by NASA’s...