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Is Facebook monitoring harmful content?
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAJan 03, 2019
NEW YORK — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg insists that the massive social network is a force for good, but the company keeps getting called out for being slow or...
Celebrated Israeli author Amoz Oz passes away
JTAJan 03, 2019
By Thane Rosenbaum The young nation of Israel has witnessed in recent years a dwindling of its founding generation — from the passing of political leaders like Shimon...
Mattis resignation highlights foreign policy arguments
Ron Kampeas, JTADec 27, 2018
WASHINGTON — James Mattis is quitting as defense secretary and his extraordinary resignation letter has brought into the open an argument among conservatives on...
Women’s March fractured by internal conflicts, anti-Semitism allegations
Josefin Dolsten, JTADec 27, 2018
NEW YORK — When the Women’s March galvanized millions of women in 2017 as a response to the inauguration of Donald Trump as president, Jewish participants were loud...
Early elections called in Israel
JTADec 27, 2018
JERUSALEM — Israel will hold new elections in April after the heads of all six coalition parties announced Dec. 24 that they were dissolving the government. The...
Meet the Christian Quarter’s Jewish santa
TPSDec 20, 2018
There is a very unusual atmosphere as one walks into Santa’s House, located in a narrow street of Jerusalem’s Old City. A red carriage, comfy armchair, old-fashioned...
Alice Walker endorses anti-Semite’s book
JTADec 20, 2018
By Sam Sokol NEW YORK — Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alice Walker has come under intense criticism after endorsing a book by anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist David...
Non-rabbi heads HUC
Josefin Dolsten, JTADec 20, 2018
NEW YORK —The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion has appointed Andrew Rehfeld, a political science professor who has led the Jewish Federation of St....
Mexico City mayor’s Jewish identity tenuous
JTADec 13, 2018
By Alan Grabinsky MEXICO CITY— It was during her ultimately successful campaign for Mexico City mayor that Claudia Sheinbaum made a rare reference to her Jewish...
Poll: European anti-Semitism growing
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTADec 13, 2018
AMSTERDAM — The last time that a stranger directed an anti-Semitic insult at me, I was carrying supplies for my son’s birthday party. It was on a Sunday afternoon on...
