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Anti-Semitism ‘Cow’ takes Twitter to task
Shira Hanau, JTAJan 07, 2021
NEW YORK — An anonymous Twitter account that “mooed” at anti-Semitic tweeters before quitting the platform returned Jan. 4 to take the platform to task one last...
AMIA bombing suspect acquitted
JTADec 31, 2020
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentine Jewish groups were expecting a long-awaited victory on Dec. 23 in the 26-year struggle for justice in the 1994 AMIA Jewish center...
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...
2020 review: Losses
Gabe Friedman, JTADec 31, 2020
NEW YORK — There’s no way to tally all who were lost to the worldwide Jewish community in 2020, a year when we mourned even our ability to carry out time-tested...
Jabbed: Dr. Ari Melmed takes the vaccine
Shana GoldbergDec 24, 2020
Monday morning, Dec. 14, Governor Jared Polis accepted the first delivery of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Colorado. Almost immediately, frontline healthcare...
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...
Brazil inaugurates a new Holocaust memorial
JTADec 24, 2020
RIO DE JANEIRO — Rio de Janeiro inaugurated a Holocaust memorial that includes a 72-foot-tall tower and overlooks the Sugarloaf Mountain, one of South America’s most...
Hungary assails EU kosher slaughter ban
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTADec 24, 2020
BUDAPEST — Hungary’s deputy prime minister called the Dec. 17 ruling by the European Union’s highest court in favor of banning kosher slaughter a “disgrace.”...