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President Joe Biden participates in a CNN town hall at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Feb. 16, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Saul Loeb-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Biden administration formally resumes assistance to Palestinians with $15 million in Covid aid

by Ron Kampeas and JTA March 30, 2021
Matzah travels on the production line of the Tiferet HaMatzot factory in Dnepro, Ukraine, Dec. 8, 2014. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inHolidays

Jews in the former Soviet Union eat pounds of matzah per person — the most in the world — every year. Here’s why.

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA March 29, 2021March 29, 2021
The Jews of Color Initiative's Ilana Kaufman (blue shirt and glasses, seventh from left) and Angel Alvarez-Mapp (black shirt and glasses, sixth from left) meet with Jewish community leaders at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.
Posted inUncategorized

Steven Spielberg giving $200,000 to Bay Area-based Jews of Color Initiative

by JTA and J. Staff March 26, 2021March 29, 2021
A pro-Palestinian demonstration in Lyon, France, before the trial of political activist Olivia Zemor for her call to boycott the Israeli pharmaceutical company Teva, March 16, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Jeff Pachoud-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Over 200 scholars create new antisemitism definition that excludes backing Israel boycotts

by Ron Kampeas and JTA March 26, 2021
Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff participate in a virtual White House seder, March 25, 2021. (Screenshot)
Posted inNews

Doug Emhoff hosts the White House’s first online Passover seder

by Ron Kampeas and JTA March 26, 2021
Philanthropist Stephen Grand has passed away at 77. (Photo/Courtesy Family House)
Posted inObituaries

Bay Area philanthropist Stephen Grand, 77, ‘made every day count’

by Dan Pine March 25, 2021March 29, 2021
A 400-meter-long and 59-meter wide vessel is lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across the waterway of Egypt's Suez Canal. (Photo/JTA-Suez Canal Authority-Handout-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inPassover

10 of the best Jewish tweets about the pre-Passover Suez Canal blockage

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA March 25, 2021
Brandeis University students weighed in on their school's first-ever Passover menu at a seder taste test provided by a local kosher caterer in March 2021. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Brandeis Hillel)
Posted inReligion

What makes this Passover different from all others? Brandeis University is celebrating.

by Penny Schwartz and JTA March 25, 2021
Adam de la Zerda in his lab at Stanford University. (Photo/Norbert von der Groeben-Stanford School of Medicine)
Posted inBay Area

Stanford prof from Israel creates a fast, portable Covid test

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 24, 2021March 25, 2021
Rabbi Gilad Kariv awaits an Israeli Supreme Court hearing in Jerusalem over public transportation on Shabbat, Sept. 11, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
Posted inNews

It’s official: Gilad Kariv will be the first Reform rabbi in Israel’s parliament

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA March 24, 2021March 24, 2021

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