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Jackie Hajdenberg

Jackie Hajdenberg

Jackie Hajdenberg is a reporter at JTA. She has a degree in political science from Barnard College and a master’s in journalism from Columbia Journalism School. Her reporting and writing has appeared in USA Today, PBS Frontline, the Detroit Free Press, Vox and Hey Alma. She writes satire and hangs out on Twitter.

Sheryl Sandberg speaks during the Digital-Life-Design conference in Munich, Germany, Jan. 20, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Lino Mirgeler-DPA-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inIsrael

Sheryl Sandberg joins Jewish women in calling out lack of concern about sexual assault of Israelis

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg November 22, 2023November 22, 2023
A Neilah service in 2017. Neilah was part of the ancient liturgy for communal fast days called in times of distress. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Anna Carson-DeWitt)
Posted inU.S.

Taking up ancient ritual for times of distress, Jews are fasting in response to attack on Israel

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg October 12, 2023October 12, 2023
The Bornplatz Synagogue in Hamburg, Germany, once held 1,200 congregants before it was destroyed in Kristallnacht. (Photo/JTA-Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inWorld

85 years later, Germany to begin rebuilding grand synagogue destroyed in Kristallnacht

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg October 2, 2023October 2, 2023
American journalist Evan Gershkovich stands inside a defendants' cage at Moscow City Court on June 22, 2023.(Photo/JTA-Natalia Kolesnikova-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Jewish Federations launch Rosh Hashanah letter-writing campaign to Evan Gershkovich

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg September 11, 2023September 11, 2023
A new ner tamid, or eternal flame, was constructed from the damaged stained glass that survived an act of arson in 2021 at Congregation Beth Israel in Austin, Texas. (Photos/JTA-Courtesy Beth Israel and Lori Adelman)
Posted inU.S.

High Holiday services are set to return this year — with a new eternal flame — to a Texas synagogue damaged in a 2021 arson

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg September 7, 2023
Thanks to new technology, the remains of resistance fighter Bernard Luza (left) were recently identified in the Netherlands, as was the precise location of a massacre of Jews in Latvia, memorialized in a plaque in the general vicinity. (Photos/JTA-Dutch Ministry of Defense, Google Maps)
Posted inHistory

Holocaust gravesites identified in Latvia and Netherlands using contemporary technology

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg August 25, 2023August 25, 2023
Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram went to court after an adoption agency disqualified them for being Jewish. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy of Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram)
Posted inU.S.

Tennessee court rules couple may sue state after adoption agency denied them services because they are Jewish

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg August 25, 2023
American journalist Evan Gershkovich stands inside a defendants' cage at Moscow City Court on June 22, 2023.(Photo/JTA-Natalia Kolesnikova-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Russian court extends pretrial detention of Jewish journalist Evan Gershkovich until November

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg August 24, 2023August 24, 2023
Climate activists march from Freedom Plaza to Capitol Hill on October 15, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo/JTA-Alex Wong via Getty)
Posted inU.S.

A massive climate march is scheduled for Rosh Hashanah. Jewish activists have given it their blessing.

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg August 22, 2023August 22, 2023
The Community Security Initiative of Los Angeles monitors threats against the Jewish community and provides safety training to Jews and Jewish institutions.(Photo/JTA-Courtesy Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles)
Posted inCalifornia

A Jewish security group says it tipped off FBI about a neo-Nazi who said he wanted to kill Jews

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg August 16, 2023August 16, 2023

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