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Rabbi Jessica Kate Meyer of The Kitchen at her previous congregation, Romemu in New York City. (Courtesy of The Kitchen)
Posted inReligion

The Kitchen lands three-year grant to expand musical outreach

by Dan Pine January 16, 2020January 17, 2020
Israeli soldiers with their artillery unit on high alert are seen near the Israel-Syria border on the Golan Heights, Aug. 25, 2019. (JTA/Basel Awidat/Flash90)
Posted inIsrael

Israel strikes Syrian airbase controlled by Iran, killing 3, London human rights group reports

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA January 16, 2020
Rockets are fired from Gaza toward southern Israel, May 5, 2019. (JTA/Mahmoud Issa/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inIsrael

Rockets fired at Israel from Gaza, Israel retaliates

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA January 16, 2020
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg speak during the Democratic presidential primary debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa on January 14, 2020.  (JTA/Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

At debate, Democrats blast Trump for leaving Iran nuclear deal

by Ron Kampeas and JTA January 15, 2020
Women of Wall executive director Yochi Rappeport outside an Israeli police station with “Rudy’s Torah” after it was returned January 13, 2020.
Posted inNorthern California

After outcry, Sacramento Torah confiscated at Western Wall is released

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn January 15, 2020January 21, 2020
Buchenwald concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel speaks while President Barack Obama and International Buchenwald Committee President Bertrand Herz listen during their visit of the former Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, June 5, 2009. (JTA/Pool/Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

A decade ago, linking Israel’s founding to the Holocaust started a firestorm. Today it’s accepted.

by Ron Kampeas and JTA January 15, 2020January 15, 2020
Protesters in Indian Kashmir shout slogans against the United States and Israel as they hold posters with the image of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq, Jan. 3, 2020. (JTA/Tauseef Mustafa/AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Iran has retaliated against Jewish targets before. But the Soleimani killing isn’t changing Jewish security around the world.

by Sam Sokol and JTA January 14, 2020
Philissa Cramer is a co-founder of the education news site Chalkbeat and the new editor in chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Posted inNews

Philissa Cramer named editor in chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency

by JTA January 14, 2020
(Left) Rabbi Jeffrey Kurtz-Lendner and (right) Eric Steger at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center a few days after the Jan. 7 liver transplant. (Robin Kurtz-Lendner)
Posted inUncategorized

Sunnyvale man, a serial organ donor, gives liver to rabbi he doesn’t know

by Sue Fishkoff January 13, 2020January 16, 2020
A protest against the murder of General Qasem Soleimani in Rasht, Iran. (JTA/Babak Jeddi/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inThe Tell

The Iran flare-up, winners and losers; and other tidbits from the week’s political news

by Ron Kampeas and JTA January 10, 2020

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