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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...
Polish restitution debate fans more anti-Semitism
JTAMay 30, 2019
By Katarzyna Markusz WARSAW — Jewish leaders are warning about anti-Semitic speech here amid a debate over the fate of property seized from or abandoned by Jews during...
Over 1,000 fires extinguished in Israel
Marcy Oster, JTAMay 30, 2019
JERUSALEM — More than one thousand fires which led to the evacuation of thousands of people from their homes have been extinguished, Israel’s National Fire and...
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...
How Venezuelan Jews are hanging on amid the crisis
Ben Sales, JTAMay 16, 2019
CARACAS — The political and economic crisis in Venezuela has further depleted Venezuela’s Jewish community. From a height of 25,000 members in the 1990s, it’s down...
Suicides among Israel Defense Forces’ lone soldiers
Sam Sokol, JTAMay 16, 2019
JERUSALEM — After Alex Sasaki died of a drug overdose in late March, Tzvika Graiver of the KeepOlim activist group posted on Facebook that the American-born soldier in...
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...
Viennese students honor Jewish pupils expelled during the Nazi era
JTAMay 09, 2019
By Toby Axelrod VIENNA — On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, a public high school in the Austrian capital corrected its own historical record. Along with a...
Gaza violence and Eurovision
Sam Sokol, JTAMay 09, 2019
TEL AVIV — When Israel won the right to host this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, the event was anticipated as a golden opportunity to showcase a side of the nation...
