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A New Yorker article about circumcision features an illustration by Javier Jaén. (Photo/Jewish Week)
Posted inOpinion

We may be talking about Gary Shteyngart’s botched circumcision for a long time

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA October 12, 2021
Rabbi Asher Meza, in addition to supporting anti-vaccine activists, has bucked the wider Orthodox community in other ways. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Meza)
Posted inU.S.

A Proud Boys-sympathizing rabbi in Florida has provided 200 vaccine exemption requests

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 12, 2021
Vladimir Friedman and Maria Belkin in "Golden Voices." (Photo/JTA_Music Box Films)
Posted inUncategorized

In ‘Golden Voices,’ Russian movie dubbers reinvent themselves in Israel, to hilarious effect

by Andrew Lapin and JTA October 11, 2021
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who founded Ben & Jerry's in 1978, spoke about the company's decision to stop selling ice cream in the West Bank in an interview with Axios released Sunday. (Screenshot)
Posted inNews

In TV interview, Ben & Jerry’s founders say accusations of antisemitism following West Bank pullout are ‘absurd’

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA October 11, 2021
Rabbi Shira Stutman discusses circumcision during a class for converts to Judaism at the Sixth and I Synagogue in Washington, DC on December 5, 2013.. (Photo/JTA-Linda Davidson-The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Posted inReligion

These Jews want to normalize not circumcising — and they want synagogues to help

by Ben Harris and JTA October 8, 2021December 7, 2021
Pro-choice and anti-abortion activists protest alongside each other during a demonstration outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., Oct. 4, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Kevin Dietsch-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

The 2021 Supreme Court’s Jewish issues: Abortion, church-state separation, Nazi-looted art — and the court itself

by Ron Kampeas and JTA October 8, 2021October 8, 2021
(Illustration/JTA-Grace Yagel)
Posted inUncategorized

My militant sister campaigns against intermarriage. I am engaged to a gentile. Here’s how we remain family.

Rachel Hartman by Rachel Hartman and JTA October 7, 2021
Gov. Gavin Newsom announcing the formation of the Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, Oct. 2021. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Newsom's office)
Posted inEducation

Newsom launches council to boost California Holocaust education

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA October 7, 2021
A police officer stands guard outside Temple Sinai, a synagogue just a half-mile away from the Tree of Life in Pittsburgh, the site of a mass shooting on Oct. 27, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Jeff Swensen-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Amid antisemitism concerns, 101 local Jewish federations to spend $54M on improving security

by Ron Kampeas and JTA October 5, 2021
The toilet was carved from limestone and was built with a septic tank underneath it. (Photo/JTA-Yoli Schwartz-Israel Antiquities Authority)
Posted inNews

Lost toilets of the First Temple: 2,700-year-old private toilet found in Jerusalem

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA October 5, 2021

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