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Singapore's skyline at dawn. (Photo/JTA-Martin Puddy-Getty Images)
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Singapore to upgrade Israel consulate to full embassy, in sign of Abraham Accords’ spillover effects

by Ron Kampeas and JTA March 22, 2022March 22, 2022
Borys Romanchenko at the former Buchenwald concentration camp. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation)
Posted inUncategorized

Holocaust survivor Borys Romanchenko, who lived through 4 Nazi camps, killed in Ukraine by Russia strike

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA March 22, 2022
Rabbis Beth and Jonathan Singer, senior rabbis at San Francisco's Congregation Emanu-El since 2013, have announced they will retire in 2025.
Posted inNews

Emanu-El senior rabbis announce retirement — in 2025

by J. Staff March 21, 2022March 21, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses Israel through the Knesset's dedicated channel, March 20, 2022. (Screenshot)
Posted inNews

In appeal to Israel, Zelensky invokes the ‘final solution’: ‘You cannot mediate between good and evil’

by Ron Kampeas and JTA March 21, 2022
The campus of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 21, 2019. HUC's board of directors is considering a new proposal to stop admitting rabbinical students to its Cincinnati campus. (Photo/JTA-Warren LeMay via Creative Commons)
Posted inNews

Hebrew Union College could shutter Cincinnati seminary where it has trained Reform rabbis for 147 years

by Andrew Lapin and JTA March 21, 2022March 21, 2022
Matzah travels on the production line of the Tiferet HaMatzot factory in Dnipro, Ukraine, Dec. 8, 2014. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inWorld

In Ukraine, much of the world’s matzah supply is under fire

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward March 18, 2022
Children on an evacuation train in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 11, 2022. (Photo/Fotoreserg via Depositphotos)
Posted inBay Area

Bay Area Ukrainians use their direct pipeline to aid home country

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 17, 2022March 29, 2022
A woman dressed in the uniform of the old Romanian Communist youth group gleefully lampooned the Ceaușescu era during Purim festivities in Bucharest this week. (Photo/Forward - Larry Cohler-Esses
Posted inWorld

Purim in wartime: Bucharest celebration brings haunting past into present

Larry Cohler-Esses by Larry Cohler-Esses and Forward March 17, 2022March 17, 2022
Congregation Emanu-El Forest School participants walk along the Mountain Lake Trail in San Francisco's Presidio. (Photo/Michael Gutnick)
Posted inEducation

Emanu-El ‘forest’ preschool grows out of pandemic pivot

Michael Gutnick by Michael Gutnick March 17, 2022
Friday night prayers at the Union for Reform Judaism Biennial, Dec. 13, 2019, a gathering of the largest Jewish denomination in the U.S. (Photo/JTA-Rob Dicker-Union for Reform Judaism)
Posted inU.S.

In wild overestimate, Americans think 30% of the country is Jewish

Arno Rosenfeld by Arno Rosenfeld and Forward March 17, 2022

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