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Jerry Stiller at a fundraising event in Universal City, California, Feb. 17, 2008. (Photo/JTA-Michael Buckner-Getty Images)
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Jerry Stiller was a mensch. He could act with the best of them, too.

Curt Schleier by Curt Schleier and JTA May 12, 2020May 12, 2020
The street artist Dede Bandaid began illustrating face masks on real Israeli bills. (Photo/Courtesy Bandaid)
Posted inCulture

How Tel Aviv creatives made art out of the coronavirus crisis

by Karen Chernick and JTA May 12, 2020
Renee Godinez had her son pour spring water on her to symbolize immersing in a mikvah. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Godinez)
Posted inReligion

Converting to Judaism during the pandemic: delay — or get creative?

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten and JTA May 11, 2020
Jerry Stiller and wife Anne Meara at the Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center in New York City, Nov. 17, 2004. (Photo/JTA-Fernando Leon-Getty Images)
Posted inComedy

Jerry Stiller, longtime comic who won fame on ‘Seinfeld,’ dies at 92

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA May 11, 2020
From left: Former Vice President Joe Biden; Former Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir; Former President Barack Obama; Former Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin. (Photo/JTA-Michael Brochstein-Echoes Wire-Barcroft Media via Getty Images; Keystone France-Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images; Bill Pugliano-Getty Images; Gene Forte-Consolidated News Pictures-Hulton Archive-Getty Images)
Posted inThe Tell

A quick history of Joe Biden’s Middle East policy

by Ron Kampeas and JTA May 8, 2020May 8, 2020
Benny Gantz (left) and Benjamin Netanyahu in the Israeli parliament, Nov. 10, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Israel gets ‘emergency national unity government,’ its first stable government in over a year

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA May 7, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden gestures as he speaks during a campaign rally at the WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri on March 7, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Mandel Ngan-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

As Israel considers annexation, Biden calls to keep the two-state solution alive

by Ron Kampeas and JTA May 6, 2020May 6, 2020
Rockets are fired from Gaza toward southern Israel, May 5, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Mahmoud Issa-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Rocket fired from Gaza on Israel for first time in over a month

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA May 6, 2020
Syrian air defense batteries respond to Israeli airstrikes on military targets on the southern outskirts of Damascus early on Nov. 20, 2019. (Photo/JTA-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inIsrael

Airstrikes blamed on Israel hit Iranian targets in Syria, killing 14

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA May 5, 2020
Shel Silverstein's houseboat, the "Evil Eye." (Photo/JTA-Christian Klugmann)
Posted inBooks

Shel Silverstein lived in a houseboat in Sausalito for 10 years. It can be yours for $783,000.

by JTA and J. Staff May 5, 2020

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