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Yiddish for the win
JTAJun 13, 2019
It’s Yiddish for the win at the Scripps National Spelling Bee! OK, not quite, but last week, when the first rounds of the finals kicked off, the word “Yiddishkeit”...
NYT: No more political cartoons
JTAJun 13, 2019
NEW YORK — The New York Times announced that it will no longer publish daily political cartoons in its international edition, in the wake of backlash over a cartoon of...
Democratic candidates send in video greetings
Ron Kampeas, JTAJun 06, 2019
WASHINGTON — Everyone started by praising the American Jewish Committee. But in their video greetings to the group’s annual policy forum here, 13 Democratic...
The only immigration lawyer in town
Ben Sales, JTAJun 06, 2019
DURHAM, NC — Most of the year, Marty Rosenbluth lives alone in a small house in Lumpkin, a Georgia town with 2,000 residents and one restaurant. It’s 500 miles away...
Who are the Sacklers, the family at the heart of the opioid crisis?
Ben Sales, JTAMay 30, 2019
NEW YORK — In the 1930s, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler both traveled to Scotland for medical school because, they said, American universities wouldn’t admit them as...
Al Sharpton says he regrets his ‘cheap’ rhetoric
Ron Kampeas, JTAMay 23, 2019
WASHINGTON — Al Sharpton appealed to Reform Jews for a united front in facing down anti-Semitism, racism and other forms of bias and acknowledged his role in stoking...
Herman Wouk and the mainstream
JTAMay 23, 2019
By Rachel Gordon BOSTON — Herman Wouk, the bestselling Orthodox Jewish author whose literary career spanned nearly seven decades and who helped usher Judaism into the...
Trump’s religious freedom changes hearten some Jews, rattle others
Ron Kampeas, JTAMay 16, 2019
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s definition of religious freedom is being welcomed by many Orthodox leaders and rattling more liberal Jewish leaders, although...
An angel from Poway
JTAMay 06, 2019
POWAY, Calif. — Lori Gilbert-Kaye, who was killed in the attack at a Chabad synagogue near San Diego, is credited with jumping in front of the synagogue’s rabbi to...
Trump picks Kelly Craft for US ambassador to UN
JNSApr 25, 2019
With US President Donald Trump nominating Acting US Ambassador to the United Nations Jonathan Cohen to be US ambassador to Egypt, the nomination of Kelly Craft as US...
