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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey speaks to the Senate via videoconference, Oct. 28, 2020. (Screenshot/JTA)
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Two weeks after Twitter bans Holocaust denial, CEO says it’s still allowed

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 28, 2020October 28, 2020
two young white men in rainbow tallits exchange rings
Posted inReligion

A small but growing number of Orthodox rabbis are officiating same-sex weddings

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten and JTA October 28, 2020January 14, 2022
Thousands of Ethiopian Jews take part in a prayer on the Sigd holiday on the Armon Hanatziv Promenade overlooking Jerusalem, Nov. 27, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Olivier Fitoussi-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Tel Aviv University launches academic program to preserve knowledge of Ethiopian Jewish bible

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA October 28, 2020
Ari Sklar (left) and Ashton Sklar participate in a drive-in Yom Kippur service put on by Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center in North Miami, Sept. 28, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Joe Raedle-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

United States of Anxiety: The new fears of American Jews

Uri Heilman by Uriel Heilman and JTA October 27, 2020
Asher Smiley (right), owner of Krav Maga Revolution in Petaluma. (Photo/Courtesy Asher Smiley)
Posted inNews

Krav Maga gyms practice a new kind of self-defense during pandemic

by Gabriel Greschler October 27, 2020October 27, 2020
French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech on combating radical Islam in Mulhouse, France, Feb. 18, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Jean Francois Badias-Pool-AFP)
Posted inWorld

To fight radical Islam, France is limiting religious freedoms — with the blessing of its Jewish minority

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA October 27, 2020October 27, 2020
Rep. Lee Zeldin speaks during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Sept. 16, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Stefani Reynolds-Pool-Getty Images)
Posted inCalifornia

Meet the 10 Jewish Republicans running for Congress in 2020

by Ron Kampeas and JTA October 27, 2020
Rabbi Serena Eisenberg and Israel's then-Consul General Shlomi Kofman at the AJC Diplomats Seder at Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco, March 22, 2018. (Photo/AJC-Mariah Tiffany)
Posted inTech

35 years on, what does the U.S.-Israel Free Trade Agreement mean to California?

Susanne T. Stirling by Susanne T. Stirling October 26, 2020October 26, 2020
Pro-affirmative action protesters carry signs about Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, a Supreme Court case regarding affirmative action at UC Davis, as they march before the federal court house in Foley Square in New York City on June 30, 1978. (Photo/AP)
Posted inNews

Jewish orgs back Prop. 16 despite complicated history with affirmative action

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman October 26, 2020October 30, 2020
Rabbi Yitzchak Smith, a rabbi and lawyer who has has recently gained a following by promoting the idea that Covid-19 testing is a government ploy to hurt Orthodox Jews, addressed a rally in support of Donald Trump and religious freedom in Long Island Sunday. (Photo/JTA-Shira Hanau)
Posted inNews

At a Long Island ‘Jews for Trump’ rally, Orthodox Jewry’s political contradictions take center stage

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA October 26, 2020October 26, 2020

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