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All the Jewish medalists at the 2024 Paris Olympics

(JTA) – At the conclusion of the 2024 Paris Olympics Sunday, at least 21 Jewish athletes from the United States, Australia and Israel returned home with some new hardware: The tally includes … more

JACOB GURVIS | 8/14/24

Clockwise from left: Nick Itkin, Artem Dolgopyat, Lonah Chemtai Salpeter, Amit Elor, Sagi Muki, Jemima Montag, Claire Weinstein, Daniel Peretz.

Jewish athletes to watch in the 2024 Paris Olympics

(JTA) – There are veterans like an Australian gold medalist canoe paddler and Israel’s powerhouse judo team. There are newcomers, like the youngest American female wrestler ever and … more

JACOB GURVIS | 7/16/24

Israel’s Labor, Meretz parties merge

(JTA) – Israel’s Labor and Meretz parties announced on Sunday [June 30] that they would unite ahead of the next election in a bid to revive the country’s left and maximize its share … more

BEN SALES | 7/5/24

Exhausted by the Israel discourse? Blame backlash fatigue.

I’d mostly forgotten about Ivan Boesky when I heard he died May 20 at age 87. But news of his death brought me back to some of my earliest assignments as a Jewish journalist – and how they relate to the controversial Washington Post story about a group of Jewish machers seeking to influence the debate over Israel. more

Andrew Silow-Carroll — JTA | 6/7/24

A moral dilemma I hope no American has to face

My first husband, Dr. Joseph Stanley Rabianski, was born in Chicago to Polish Catholic parents. We lived in Georgia, and I taught at Georgia State University, and what was then, in the … more

5/10/24

Hadassah celebrated 50 years of gift wrapping at the Warwick Mall.

9 stories that defined our Jewish year in 2023 before Oct. 7

On Oct. 6, JTA led its morning newsletter with an article that had long been in the works – and that we expected to drive conversation in the days ahead: It was a profile of a Jewish dad in … more

BEN SALES (JTA) | 1/7/24

Memorial for a war casualty near Moschen, Ukraine.

Tears, mines and a minyan in Ukraine

Second of three parts For my second wartime trip to Ukraine, in September 2022, I flew into Vienna, then took a long bus trip to Lviv, Ukraine, and an overnight train to Odesa. Near my … more

AARON GINSBURG | 11/6/23

Israel’s UN envoy says he’ll wear Nazi yellow star until other countries condemn Hamas

(JTA) — Israel’s envoy to the United Nations,took an unusual step on Monday while exhorting the international body to condemn Hamas, the terrorist group that his country is trying to … more

Philissa Cramer | 10/31/23

Hamas releases 2 American hostages from Gaza

(JTA) — Hamas has released two American hostages, a mother and a daughter, whom it was holding in the Gaza Strip. The release was confirmed by an organization dedicated to the rescue of the … more

Ron Kampeas | 10/20/23

Historic synagogue in Tunisia heavily damaged

(JTA) – A historic but defunct synagogue in Tunisia was reduced to rubble on Tuesday amid mass rioting after an explosion in Gaza that Hamas blamed on Israel. Hundreds of people were … more

Andrew Lapin | 10/19/23