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Cavaliers fire David Blatt, former Israeli coach
Hillel Kuttler, JTAJan 28, 2016
CLEVELAND The Cleveland Cavaliers fired Israeli-American head coach David Blatt, who led the team to the NBA finals last season and to the best record in the Eastern...
Woody Allen sidekick Tony Roberts reflects on film career
JTAJan 21, 2016
By Lonnie Firestone NEW YORK Theres a memorable scene in Annie Hall when Woody Allens character, Alvy Singer, rants about finding anti-Semites everywhere he...
Israel’s female athlete of the year is kickboxer, Nili Block
JNSJan 14, 2016
By Josh Hasten, JNS THE COVER photo quote featured on 20-year-old Nili Block’s Facebook page says, When My Body Shouts Stop, My Mind Screams...
Basketball for all in Jerusalem
Michael Bachner, TPSJan 14, 2016
JERUSALEM Israels first ever basketball league for people with special needs was launched in Jerusalem on Monday, Jan. 11. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat started the...
Modern twist on the ancient sin of lashon hara
Rabbi Jack RiemerDec 24, 2015
THIS BOOK, an exploration into lashon hara in contemporary culture, arrives at a very opportune time. The Jewish community has just gone through a fierce battle over the...
Book review: The ‘real’ West Side
Chris LeppekDec 17, 2015
BEFORE HE gets down to business in his latest piece-by-piece, neighborhood-focused history of Denver, author Phil Goodstein finds it necessary to explain what specific...
Jerry Seinfeld tours Israel for the first time
Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, JNSDec 10, 2015
IN AN episode from Jerry Seinfelds latest creation, a web series called Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Mel Brooks is eating pastrami in Carl Reiners living...
Gift Guide: Alice Borodkin publishes memoir
Andrea JacobsDec 03, 2015
CHANUKAH EDITION 5776SECTION D PAGE 5 WHEN I was nine, I took dance classes four times a week and danced in the St. Louis Civic Ballet. It was exciting but […]
Happy Chanukah! IJN Doris Sky Chanukah Coloring Contest Winners 2015
IJN StaffDec 03, 2015
CHANUKAH SECTION 5776 Creativity, color, content! This years crop of entries was particularly interesting, with young artists using crayons, markers, water colors,...
Aly Raisman has tough road to Rio
Dvora Meyers, JTANov 26, 2015
GLASGOW Once the music started playing not the Hava Nagila tune that made her the Jewish poster child of the London Games, but something equally folksy Aly...
