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Oscar speech? Holocaust survivor and his violin
Curt Schleier, JTAFeb 16, 2017
NEW YORK — Filmmaker Kahane Cooperman hasn’t written an Oscars acceptance speech yet, but she likely will before the Academy Awards ceremony on Feb. 28. Not to jinx...
Another Qumran cave discovered
Edgar Asher, AshernetFeb 16, 2017
QUMRAN, West Bank — Archaeologists have discovered another cave in Qumran. The discovery was made by Dr. Oren Gutfeld and Ahiad Ovadia from the Hebrew University of...
NFL players will play exhibition game in Israel
JTAFeb 09, 2017
JERUSALEM — A group of National Football Leaguers will visit Israel and play an exhibition game against a squad from the Israel Football Assn. Israel’s tourism and...
Jewish Americana
Gabe Friedman, JTAJan 26, 2017
NEW YORK — Saul Kaye never wanted to be a “Jewish blues” player. In 2009, he was touring as a rock musician, playing hundreds of shows a year with various...
Jewish children’s books medalists announced
Special to the IJNJan 19, 2017
Winners of the annual Sydney Taylor Book Award have been announced by the Association of Jewish Libraries. Named in memory of Sydney Taylor, author of the classic...
National Pingpong champ is Orthodox teen
Ben Sales, JTAJan 12, 2017
NEW YORK — She’s beaten a table tennis Hall of Famer. She’s beaten Jewish philanthropists in suits and high heels. She’s beaten tennis champion Rafael Nadal. And...
Israeli basketball: ‘On the Map’
JNSJan 05, 2017
By Jeffrey Barken The stakes could not have been higher when Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team faced its heavily favored rival, the Russian CSKA Moscow squad,...
Cairo Geniza at Cambridge University
Edgar Asher, AshernetDec 29, 2016
An exhibition at Cambridge University featuring a fraction of ancient Jewish manuscripts that are part of the unique collection known as the Cairo Geniza will open in...
Happy Chanukah! IJN Doris Sky Chanukah Coloring Contest Winners 2016
IJN StaffDec 22, 2016
CHANUKAH EDITION 5777 Creativity, color, content! This year’s crop of entries was particularly interesting, with young artists using crayons, markers, water colors,...
Denver Folklore Center — into its next life
Chris LeppekDec 22, 2016
CHANUKAH EDITION 5777 SECTION D PAGE 6 a quiet, old-timey street in South Denver, there stands an oasis of sorts — a refuge not from desert heat but from the noisy,...
