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In one week: $2.2 million raised
JTAAug 01, 2019
MIAMI — A campaign on a Jewish crowdfunding website raised more than $2 million in five days to provide a “miracle drug” to help a two-year-old Florida girl....
Suspect still at large in Miami shooting
Ben Sales, JTAAug 01, 2019
MIAMI — When Rabbi Mark Rosenberg’s family played back the footage on their home’s security cameras in North Miami Beach, they could hear the rat-tat-tat of...
Meet the budding journalist covering the debates
Ron Kampeas, JTAAug 01, 2019
DETROIT — For any reporter, careening in a year from reviewing restaurants to covering the presidential debates would be a pretty fast rise. But then again, Jefferson...
US House: No to BDS
Ron Kampeas, JTAJul 25, 2019
WASHINGTON — The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly condemned the movement to boycott, divest and sanction Israel. The House vote Tuesday, July 23, on the...
Elder statesman speaks: Gov. Richard D. Lamm
Chris LeppekJul 25, 2019
As perhaps the leading figure in the last half century of Colorado politics, Richard D. Lamm has become an elder statesman. The IJN thought it opportune to get his...
Voice over the moon
Josefin Dolsten, JTAJul 25, 2019
NEW YORK — In the 1960s, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and John Glenn were household names, idolized as G-d-like figures by a public enraptured by NASA’s...
When it comes to Trump’s tweets, Jews say ‘leave us out of it’
Ron Kampeas, JTAJul 25, 2019
WASHINGTON — Over and over since his July 15 tweet saying that that the Democratic congresswomen should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested...
Security threat in Cheyenne, Wyo.
Andrea JacobsJul 18, 2019
You never know what you’ll uncover in a congregational newsletter. That’s what we found out while searching for upcoming events in a July 15 mailing from Mt. Sinai...
Jew vs. Jew in Cracow, as established community clashes with Chabad
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAJul 18, 2019
CRACOW — When burly guards working for the Jewish Community of Cracow blocked the entrance to a Chabad-run synagogue, it was the culmination of a series of clashes...
Body of drowned rabbi recovered, buried
JTAJul 18, 2019
NORFOLK — The body of a rabbi who jumped into the ocean in Virginia to save a student was found off the coast of North Carolina. Volunteers looking for Reuven Bauman,...
