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Do geopolitics keep Israel out of the World Cup?
JTAJun 21, 2018
By Charles Dunst Following the World Cup? Wondering why Israel is almost never a participant, even though it has a better side than some other participants from its...
Dead Sea Scrolls rotated
Andrea JacobsJun 14, 2018
It’s closing time at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science on June 5. Volunteers exiting out of the service entrance deposit their keys and head home with the...
Ahead of World Cup, Russian Jewish communities prepare to open their doors
JNSJun 14, 2018
By Yehuda Sugar, JNS via Chabad.org If Rostov-on-Don Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Chaim Danzinger has his way, thousands of Jewish soccer fans who will descend on his...
Mahane Yehuda: Hip hangout by night
Ben Sales, JTAMay 31, 2018
JERUSALEM — In another life, Kobi Frig would have been sitting behind vats of spices in Jerusalem’s bustling, labyrinthine Mahane Yehuda market, hawking paprika,...
New Han Solo is a nice Jewish boy from LA
Gabe Friedman, JTAMay 24, 2018
LOS ANGELES — “Star Wars” fans are eagerly awaiting the franchise’s latest film, “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” As its title suggests, the flick focuses on Han...
The story of Sobibor
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAMay 17, 2018
MOSCOW — A decade ago, relatively few people in Russia even knew about the existence of Sobibor, the smallest-scale facility of the six killing centers that the Nazis...
Ronaldinho opens soccer academy in Israel
JTAMay 10, 2018
The Brazilian soccer idol Ronaldinho has launched a soccer school in Israel aimed at both native-born and immigrant children and youths. Ronaldinho, who was in Israel...
In the footsteps of Leonard Cohen
Ben Harris, JTAMay 03, 2018
MONTREAL — Just inside the gate of the Shaar Hashomayim synagogue off Boulevard du Mont Royal, a gravestone bears an unusual Star of David, the sharp angles of its two...
Giro champion Gino Bartali will be posthumously awarded Israeli citizenship
TPSApr 30, 2018
By Mira Vigevani Gino Bartali, three-time winner of the Giro d’Italia and twice of the Tour de France in the 1930s, will be posthumously awarded Israeli citizenship...
Celebrating Leonard Bernstein’s extraordinary gift
Penny Schwartz, JTAApr 19, 2018
NEW YORK — From his birthplace in Boston to New York, Berlin, South Africa, China and Israel, Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), the larger-than-life conductor, pianist,...
