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IV therapy — from Instagram to pre-Yom Kippur hydration hack
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTASep 21, 2023
The rise of non-medical IV treatments, a trend in so-called “wellness” culture that celebrities including Kendall Jenner and Hailey Bieber have popularized, has been...
Pope Pius XII and Nazi camps
JTASep 21, 2023
A newly uncovered letter provides the strongest evidence yet that Pope Pius XII knew about the Nazi extermination of the Jews as it was happening
Zelensky meets Jewish leaders
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTASep 21, 2023
Volodymyr Zelensky met with 15 Jewish soldiers and 32 Chabad rabbis on Sept. 14, a day ahead of Rosh Hashanah, marking the Jewish president of Ukraine’s first official...
Netanyahu in US — new tone
Hillel GoldbergSep 20, 2023
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is accompanied by controversy as he embarks on his first trip to the US since his reelection late last year.
A conversation with Diana DeGette
Larry HankinSep 14, 2023
During Cong. Diana DeGette's most recent periodic roundtable with community newspapers, attended by the Intermountain Jewish News, she shared updates on the projects...
Synagogues are coming to terms with slave labor
Steve LipmanSep 14, 2023
America's oldest synagogues, Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island and Kahal Kadosh Beth Eloh-m (KKBE) in Charleston, South Carolina, are coming to terms with slave...
Peer tries to build black-Jewish bridges through music
Chris LeppekSep 14, 2023
Leah Peer — the founder and music director of Kol Nashim, a sister choir of the Colorado Hebrew Chorale, and director of HEA’s High Holidays choir — Peer believes...
Food relief program delivers to Ukraine ahead of Rosh Hashanah
JNSSep 14, 2023
A food-relief program to manufacture, produce and bake kosher foods within Ukraine will help Jews will have a sufficient supply of items when they sit down to their Rosh...
Lab grown meat: kosher but not parve
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTASep 14, 2023
The Orthodox Union has granted kosher certification to a type of lab-grown meat, a decision that could signal an expansion of the options available under Judaism’s...
Michaelson Jenet appointed to vacant state Senate seat
IJN StaffSep 13, 2023
Colorado State House Rep. Dafna Michaelson Jenet will replace state Sen. Dominick Moreno in Senate District 21 after a Democratic vacancy committee selected her Aug. 31.
