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First person: MLK event at Sinai
Andrea JacobsJan 23, 2020
 returned to the Temple Sinai choir after a hiatus for a historic milestone Sunday, Jan. 19 â the first time a synagogue would host the Greater Denver...
Rose Community Foundation reorients strategy
IJN StaffJan 23, 2020
Rose Community Foundation released a new strategic plan and vision that will guide the Foundation moving forward. The full plan is available on the Rose Community...
Chasidic all-volunteer security force
Ben Sales, JTAJan 23, 2020
MONSEY, NY — Eleven days after a man barged into a rabbi’s home on Chanukah here and stabbed five Jews, Josef Margaretten was patrolling this chasidic neighborhood...
Ukraine’s Zelensky loves Israel, Israelis
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJan 23, 2020
KIEV — President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine extolled Israelis as a “united, strong, powerful” and “unique” people in his first interview for an Israeli...
Democratic candidates’ positions on Iran
Ron Kampeas, JTAJan 23, 2020
WASHINGTON — Based on the last Democratic presidential debate and, in Elizabeth Warren’s case other sources, the candidates think that President Donald Trump made a...
Krav Maga a way to confront anti-Semitism
JNSJan 23, 2020
By Eliana Rudee Just one month before the deadliest anti-Semitic mass shooting in American history on Oct. 27, 2018, which took the lives of 11 Jewish worshippers in a...
Royal Bat Mitzvah
Josefin Dolsten, JTAJan 16, 2020
PHNON PENH — Members of the Cambodian royal family gathered last month at the Raffles Hotel Le Royal in Phnom Penh for a celebration. There was music, traditional...
Greenblatt’s Middle East ‘exit interview’
Josefin Dolsten, JTAJan 16, 2020
TEANECK, NJ — Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s former Middle East negotiator, made his first public speech since leaving the White House on Sunday night,...
On Holocaust culpability, Lithuania following Poland’s example
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJan 16, 2020
VILNIUS — Poland passed a controversial Holocaust law last year that drew sharp international criticism and damaged its relations with Israel, US and Jewish groups...
Rabbi Rottenberg delivers invocation at Gov. Cuomo’s State of the State
Ben Sales, JTAJan 16, 2020
NEW YORK — Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg, whose home was the site of a stabbing last month on the holiday of Chanukah, delivered an invocation at Governor Andrew Cuomo’s...
