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JTA – Surely the Torah’s redactors never imagined that their Dinah — voiceless daughter of Jacob and Leah, rape victim avenged by her brothers — would one day be portrayed on the small screen as a lusty young midwife’s apprentice who takes …
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Debra Nussbaum Cohen
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12/4/14
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – President Obama signed into law a measure that makes the desecration of cemeteries around the world a violation of religious freedom.
Obama signed the the Protect Cemeteries Act amending the International Religious Freedom …
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8/19/14
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Among the most disturbing spectacles over the months since the coronavirus was unleashed on the world have been the attacks on haredi Orthodox Jews in both Israel and the United …
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Rabbi Avi Shafran
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4/30/20
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JTA – A year after they submitted their application for asylum in the United States, Shahi and his mother expected to be let in.
As Iranian Jews who applied for asylum through …
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Cnaan Liphshiz
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2/2/17
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American Jewish organizations reacted to the news that Robert Bowers, the man who murdered 11 Jews at prayer in 2018, has been sentenced to death. Groups stressed in their comments that the …
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JTA STAFF
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8/4/23
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – Seven Republican senators are backing a bill that would enshrine as law one of former President Donald Trump’s final orders – requiring products from the portion …
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8/8/21
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(JTA) – All four hostages at a synagogue in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area were declared “out alive and safe” by Texas Governor Greg Abbott at 9:33 p.m. CST on Saturday following a terrifying 12-hour standoff with an armed assailant in an unfolding saga that terrified Jews worldwide.
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Ron Kampeas
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1/15/22
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(JTA) – One of the United States’ largest Kosher certifying agencies alleges that JetBlue airlines sold a snack it falsely claimed was certified as Kosher.
In a lawsuit filed last …
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JACKIE HAJDENBERG
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6/30/22
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Hannah Kaplan, a senior at Tiffin University in northern Ohio, can identify exactly one other Jew in the school’s student body of approximately 3,000. There are also a …
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Ben Sales, Jackie Hajdenberg
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11/14/23
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – Vice President Joe Biden will address J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group announced April 11.
The April 18 event comes a month after Biden, the Obama …
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4/15/16
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