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Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar delivers a speech during an emergency gathering of rabbis in Moscow, Russia, Sept. 5, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia)
Posted inWorld

In rare and delicate statement, Russia’s Chabad rabbis call to ‘end the suffering’ in Ukraine

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 8, 2022September 8, 2022
Avitall Gerstetter, shown in 2019, wrote a column critical of conversion in Germany. (Photo/JTA-Stephan Röhl-Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inWorld

Are too many Germans converting to Judaism? The debate is roiling Germany’s Jewish community.

by Toby Axelrod and JTA September 7, 2022September 7, 2022
Then-U.K. Foreign Minister Liz Truss and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meet at the U.K. Commonwealth and Development Office in London, Nov. 29, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Stefan Rousseau-PA Images via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

On Jewish issues, new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss looks to continue in Boris Johnson’s footsteps

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 7, 2022
Goldie's Bagels in Columbia, Missouri, is giving away free bagels and coffee to those who cannot afford to pay. (Photo/Courtesy Amanda Rainey; Design/JTA-Jackie Hajdenberg)
Posted inFood

Missouri bagel shop goes viral for Talmud-inspired effort to feed the needy

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA September 6, 2022September 6, 2022
A woman stands in front of a mural, part of an art exhibit honoring slain Palestinian-American Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, at the spot where she was killed in Jenin in the West Bank, May 19, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Ronaldo Schemidt-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Israel admits its forces likely killed Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in new report

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA September 6, 2022
Israeli fans at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Sept. 5, 1972. (Photo/JTA-Klaus Rose-picture alliance via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

How the 1972 Munich Massacre unfolded, through the eyes of athletes in the Olympic village

by Jon Marks and JTA September 2, 2022September 2, 2022
State Department spokesman Ned Price takes a question from a reporter during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, Feb. 28, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Andrew Harnik-Pool-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

What’s in the new Iran deal, and what’s holding it up?

by Ron Kampeas and JTA September 1, 2022September 1, 2022
Eugene Ginter makes the chocolate sandwich that his mother made for him after he was liberated from Auschwitz. (Photo/Ellen Silverman)
Posted inFood

New cookbook showcases Auschwitz survivors’ recipes — and resilience

by Rachel Ringler and JTA September 1, 2022
The Googleplex, Google's Mountain View headquarters. (Photo/Flickr-Robbie Shade CC BY 2.0)
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Jewish Google employee who protested an Israeli contract resigns after alleging ‘retaliation’

by Ron Kampeas and JTA August 31, 2022August 31, 2022
Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev at the European Parliament in Brussels, May 26, 2008. (Photo/European Parliament-Pietro Naj-Oleari CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Posted inObituaries

Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader whose reforms included letting Jews leave for Israel, dies at 91

by Ron Kampeas and JTA August 31, 2022August 31, 2022

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