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Amar’e Stoudemire will play in Jerusalem
JTAAug 04, 2016
JERUSALEM — Amar’e Stoudemire, who retired from the NBA last week, has signed a two-year deal with the Hapoel Jerusalem basketball team. The team announced the deal...
The art of mosaics returns to Jerusalem’s Old City
Michael Zeff, TPSJul 28, 2016
JERUSALEM — A new art and tourism project featuring 10 original and reproduced mosaics was unveiled on July 25 by Israel’s Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, Zeev...
In Russia, Pokémon Go leads people to shul
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJul 21, 2016
MOSCOW — As the Pokémon Go phenomenon grows, some institutions connected to European Jewry’s darkest hour have taken precautions against it. The Auschwitz-Birkenau...
Patriots Jewish players qualifies for Olympic rugby
JTAJul 21, 2016
NEW YORK — Nate Ebner of the New England Patriots has qualified for the US Olympic men’s rugby sevens team competing next month at the Rio Olympics, becoming the...
Israel heads to Rio
Michael Bachner, TPSJul 14, 2016
The Israeli Olympic and Paralympic delegations met on Wednesday, July 13, at the President’s Residence before departing to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil where they will...
Top officials at Rio Olympics are Jewish
Marcus Moraes, JTAJun 23, 2016
RIO DE JANEIRO — Mazel tov! That’s perhaps how the big shots in charge of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the first to take place in South America, will toast victories...
‘Septembers in Shiraz’ portrays great change in Jews’ fate after shah’s fall
Curt Schleier, JTAJun 23, 2016
NEW YORK — “Septembers of Shiraz” is a film about a prosperous Jewish family in Iran caught up in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution that overthrew the shah....
Falafel war in Paris
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJun 23, 2016
PARIS — On a crowded sidewalk in the French capital, Yomi Peretz exchanges jokes and backslaps with customers waiting in a long line in the rain to enter his falafel...
The Nazi Titanic: book reveals bizarre and horrific story
Chris LeppekJun 16, 2016
last thing the world needs is yet another reminder of the sheer evil and madness that permeated the Nazi Third Reich, yet this striking historical account by Robert P....
America’s best Jewish food trucks
Gabe Friedman, JTAJun 16, 2016
NEW YORK — Summer is upon us. And that means swimsuits, summer camps, sticky temperatures — and food trucks. True, many of these trendy restaurants-on-wheels are...
