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Cantors and musicians perform at the annual Hanukkah event at the Royal Concert Hall in Amsterdam, Dec. 22, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Eduardus Lee)
Posted inHanukkah

How Hanukkah returned to Amsterdam’s Royal Concert Hall decades after the Holocaust

by JTA December 7, 2020December 7, 2020
A family walks into the sunset on the beach with their young daughter
Posted inOpinion

My mom is Japanese and my dad is Jewish. Their love is not a punchline.

Hanah Bloom by Hanah Bloom and JTA December 7, 2020
Kelly Loeffler and Rev. Raphael Warnock met in a debate in Atlanta, Dec. 6 2020. (Screenshot from C-Span)
Posted inNews

Georgia Senate candidates exchange accusations of antisemitism and white supremacy

by Ron Kampeas and JTA December 7, 2020
(From left)) Rabbi Levi Shemtov, National Economic Director Gary Cohn and Rabbi Abraham Shemtov light the "National Menorah" on the Ellipse near the White House, on Dec. 12, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Al Drago-Getty Images)
Posted inPolitics

Jared and Ivanka’s rabbi, Chabad’s top man in DC, is optimistic about the coming transition

by Ron Kampeas and JTA December 7, 2020December 7, 2020
A kid hoping for a puppy as a present in Daveed Diggs' new Hanukkah song. (Screenshot from YouTube)
Posted inMusic

WATCH: Daveed Diggs’ new ‘Puppy for Hanukkah’ song

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 4, 2020December 4, 2020
Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, seen at a news conference in July 2020, is the incoming chair of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. (Photo/JTA-Tom Williams-CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Pro-Israel centrists defeat progressives in bids to chair key House committees

by Ron Kampeas and JTA December 4, 2020December 4, 2020
Chabad in Houston usually drops pieces of gelt from a helicopter, but social distancing derailed that event this year. (Photo/JTA-Chabad of Uptown)
Posted inU.S.

Across Texas, the show of outdoor Hanukkah festivities must go on

by Jeff Siegel and JTA December 4, 2020
Jeff Zients speaks at a news briefing in Washington, Feb. 2, 2015. (Photo/JTA-Alex Wong-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Biden’s new Covid adviser co-owns a popular DC ‘Jew-ish’ deli and bagel shop

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 4, 2020
Esther Cohen is flanked by her husband Samuel (left) and German President Joachim Gauck in Ioannina, Greece, March 7, 2014. (Photo/JTA-Wolfgang Kumm-picture alliance via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

6 of Europe’s most prominent Holocaust survivors have died over the past month

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA December 3, 2020December 3, 2020
Members of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, pray outside in a makeshift synagogue. (Photo/JTA-Roy Rochlin-Getty Images)
Posted inAnalysis

The Supreme Court ruling on Covid reopenings and religious liberty, explained

Michael A. Helfand by Michael A. Helfand and JTA December 3, 2020December 3, 2020

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