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Denver native wins Nobel
JTAOct 11, 2018
NEW YORK (JTA) — William Nordhaus, a Yale University professor with Jewish roots, will share the 2018 Nobel Prize for Economics with Paul Romer, a Denver native, who...
Governor’s race: Polis vs. Stapleton
Chris LeppekOct 11, 2018
With Colorado’s gubernatorial election less than a month away, the leading candidates are finally meeting face-to-face, laying out the political courses they hope to...
Israeli-Palestinian coexistence hit in terror attack
JNSOct 11, 2018
By Josh Hasten JERUSALEM — Just as shocking as the execution-style murders of Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, a 29-year-old mother of an infant, and Ziv Hajbi, a 35-year-old...
At UN, Abbas, Netanyahu, Trump all have takes on peace
JTAOct 04, 2018
NEW YORK — PA President Mahmoud Abbas, in an address to the UN, rejected criticism of the PA for paying monthly salaries to Palestinians who kill Israelis or the...
Beitar Jerusalem documentary nabs Emmy
TPSOct 04, 2018
By Mara Vigevani “Forever Pure,” an Israeli documentary about the controversial Beitar Jerusalem’s hardcore fan club, known as La Familia, won an Emmy Award in the...
A Jewish take on the Kavanaugh hearings
Josefin Dolsten, JTAOct 04, 2018
NEW YORK — As Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, he had to answer questions about sexual misconduct...
Thousands of British Jews rally against anti-Semitism
JTASep 27, 2018
LONDON — More than 2,500 people demonstrated last week in Manchester, England, in a display of Jewish unity against increasing anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom and...
58 group object to University of Michigan boycott
JTASep 27, 2018
ANN ARBOR — Fifty-eight organizations called on the University of Michigan to sanction professors who boycott Israel — such as by refusing to write a letter of...
Thousands of women gather to wage peace
TPSSep 27, 2018
By Mara Vigevani Some 4,500 women — Jews and Arabs, religious and secular, all dressed in white and turquoise —made their way from Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem’s Old...
Who will be Jerusalem’s next mayor?
Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, JNSSep 20, 2018
JERUSALEM — The late Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek used to say that if one wants to uproot and replant a tree in Jerusalem, it might require the UN Security Council. He...
