Israel
IJN exclusive: Aryeh Lightstone, former senior advisor in Jerusalem embassy, speaks
Chaim GoldbergFeb 04, 2021
How does a Jewish boy from Denver go on to become one of the most powerful, if underrated, influencers of US Mideast policy? Who was the right-hand man of a primary...
Deaths of major rabbis leaves Orthodoxy reeling
Shira Hanau, JTAFeb 04, 2021
JERUSALEM — Four times on Sunday, Jan. 31, Orthodox men carried the body of a beloved Torah scholar wrapped in a black and white prayer shawl through the streets of...
Abayudaya may not come on aliyah
Shira Hanau, JTAFeb 04, 2021
NEW YORK — American Jews with ties to a small community of Jews in Uganda are condemning the Israeli Interior Ministry’s decision to reject the right of those Jews...
Will Netanyahu win again?
Ben Sales, JTAJan 14, 2021
JERUSALEM — In about two months, Israelis will vote in a national election. Seem familiar? It is. Israel will hold its fourth election in just two years — the latest...
Pioneer in Jewish feminism passes
Shira Hanau, JTADec 31, 2020
JERUSALEM — Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin, a pioneer in the world of Jewish feminism who experienced personal tragedy later in life, died Dec. 23 in Israel. Henkin and his...
Yad Vashem controversy grows
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTADec 24, 2020
WARSAW — As the head of Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, Piotr Cywinski and his staff rarely intervene in matters that don’t concern their imposing...