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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.

Christian students enrolled in the master's program for Jewish studies at Yeshiva University read a piece of text from the book of or Exodus while on a tour of the campus guided by Jewish educators. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Yeshiva University)
Posted inEducation

Yeshiva University, a pillar of Orthodox Judaism, launches master’s program for Christian students

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg August 10, 2023
A classroom at Margolin Hebrew Academy, pictured in 2021. (Photo/JTA-Screenshot from YouTube)
Posted inU.S.

Jewish man shot by police after attempting attack on Memphis Jewish day school

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg July 31, 2023August 2, 2023
An electric car charges in a station. (Photo/JTA-Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inReligion

Conservative rabbis endorse use of electric cars on Shabbat, but divisions over driving remain

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg July 27, 2023
SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher, in sunglasses, and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland join protestors on strike in Los Angeles on July 14, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Valerie Macon-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

SAG strike puts its brash Jewish president, Fran Drescher, squarely in the spotlight

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg July 19, 2023
Azara participants carry a Torah scroll. (Photo/JTA-Naomi Klionsky)
Posted inWorld

A non-denominational yeshiva opens in Scotland, inspired by models in US and Israel

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg July 12, 2023July 12, 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

Russia hints at prisoner swap possibility for jailed Jewish journalist Evan Gershkovich

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg July 5, 2023
A protestor holds a sign saying "Abortion bans are against my religion" at the May 2022 Jewish Rally For Abortion Justice in Washington, D.C. (Photo/JTA-Anna Moneymaker via Getty)
Posted inNews

How Jewish activists are campaigning for reproductive rights, one year after Dobbs

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg June 28, 2023June 28, 2023
From a photo of Rabbi Sally Priesand by Joan Roth that will soon be on display at the National Portrait Gallery.
Posted inArt

National Portrait Gallery to display portrait of Sally Priesand, first ordained woman rabbi in American history

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg June 22, 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 rejects appeal to release American journalist Evan Gershkovich

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg June 22, 2023June 22, 2023
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich appears in a court in Moscow court, April 18, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Sefa Karacan-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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US House passes resolution calling on Russia to free Jewish reporter Evan Gershkovich

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg June 15, 2023

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