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A flock of gray cranes are seen in the Hula Valley in northern Israel, Dec. 9, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Shang Hao-Xinhua via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Scientists worry an avian flu killing thousands of cranes in Israel could spread to humans

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 30, 2021
Man hiding his face
Posted inBay Area

Police arrest man after Aryan Nations flyer drops in Carmichael

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman December 29, 2021
Art projects are one way Yom Rishon School brings Jewish studies alive. (Photo/Sue Fishkoff)
Posted inEducation

In Palo Alto, a ‘first day’ of Jewish education — in Russian

by Sue Fishkoff December 29, 2021December 29, 2021
John T. Earnest stands at his arraignment hearing in San Diego County Superior Court in San Diego, April 30, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Nelvin C. Cepeda-Pool-Getty Images)
Posted inCalifornia

Poway synagogue shooter gets a second lifetime jail sentence in federal court

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 29, 2021
Then-Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid speaks during an address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., May 23, 2011. (Photo/JTA-Mandel Ngan-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Harry Reid, pugnacious Senate majority leader with deep Jewish ties, dies at 82

by Ron Kampeas and JTA December 29, 2021December 29, 2021
Memorial stolperstiene, or "stumbling blocks," are laid in front of a formerly Jewish home in Görlitz. (Photo/Courtesy Lauren Leiderman)
Posted inNews

Return to Görlitz: survivors’ descendants lay memorial stones in Germany

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 28, 2021December 29, 2021
Clockwise, from top left: Jessica Walter, Ed Asner, Sylvia Weinstock, George Segal, Norton Juster, Joan Micklin Silver and Larry King. (Photos/JTA-Getty Images)
Posted inObituaries

18 noteworthy Jews who died in 2021

by JTA December 28, 2021
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu attends a celebration for his 86th birthday on Oct. 7, 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo/JTA-Gianluigi Guercia-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inObituaries

Desmond Tutu, who identified with Jews but criticized Israel, dies at 90

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 27, 2021
Rabbi Mendel Weinfeld surveys the damage at the Chabad House in south San Jose, Dec. 2021. (Photo/Emma Goss)
Posted inBay Area

Fire destroys new Chabad synagogue in San Jose, spares Torahs

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss December 23, 2021January 5, 2022
A Christmas display at the entrance to the Tel Aviv flagship store of Tiv Ta’am, an Israeli supermarket chain known for selling non-kosher food. (Photo/JTA-Asaf Shalev)
Posted inNews

For a growing number of Jews in Israel, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA December 23, 2021December 23, 2021

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