Teen makes history as highest Israeli NBA draft pick
JTANov 26, 2020
By Marc Brodsky WASHINGTON — Deni Avdija, the 19-year-old Israeli basketball phenom, was taken by the Washington Wizards with the ninth overall pick of the NBA Draft...
Lifetime Achievement Award for novelist Walter Mosley
JTANov 26, 2020
NEW YORK — Black Jewish novelist Walter Mosley received one of the National Book Foundation’s highest honors on Nov. 18: the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to...
Georgia Senate race: Warnock’s stance on Israel
JTANov 19, 2020
By Gabe Friedman and Ron Kampeas ATLANTA — Almost as soon as it became clear that control of the US Senate would be decided by two runoff elections in Georgia,...
Brazilian Jew arrested for pyramid scheme
JTANov 19, 2020
By Marcus R. Gilbrand RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian Jewish businessman accused of bilking investors out of tens of millions of dollars, earning comparisons to Bernie...
‘Tehran’ explores complex identity of Iranian-Jews
JTANov 19, 2020
By Lior Zaltzman NEW YORK — It all started in 2014, with an email that arrived in Dana Eden’s inbox with the subject line: “Tehran.” “I said to myself, ‘Oh...
Alex Trebek’s Jewish moments
JTANov 12, 2020
By Philissa Cramer NEW YORK — Alex Trebek, the beloved baritone host of “Jeopardy!,” died of pancreatic cancer Sunday, Nov. 8, at 80. In his 36 years as host of...
What happened when a teacher made his students debate the Holocaust
JTANov 05, 2020
NEW YORK — On Jan. 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking officials from the Nazi party and the German government got together in a villa at Wannsee, a leafy suburb of Berlin. They...
Sudan-Israel announce normalization
JTAOct 29, 2020
WASHINGTON — Sudan will become the third Arab country in the past two months to normalize ties with Israel, continuing the trend of Arab states’ willingness to...
He wants to be the mayor of Rome
JTAOct 15, 2020
By Simone Somekh ROME — Tobia Zevi is candid: He wants to become the next mayor of Rome. “I’ve dreamed of becoming mayor of my city my entire life,” he told JTA...
3,000 Faces of COVID
JTAOct 15, 2020
NEW YORK — When Alex Goldstein first set out to memorialize Americans who died of COVID-19, he was overwhelmed by the vastness of the task ahead. That was in March,...
