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Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker was held hostage inside Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, Jan. 15, 2022.
Posted inUncategorized, U.S.

‘Quite simply a mensch’: Meet Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, freed after hostage crisis at his synagogue

by Andrew Lapin and JTA January 16, 2022
Demonstrators demand the release of Aafia Siddiqui from U.S. custody in Lahore, Pakistan on May 29, 2016. (Photo/JTA-Rana Sajid Hussain-Pacific Press-LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Who is Aafia Siddiqui, the prisoner whom the Colleyville synagogue hostage-taker reportedly wanted to free?

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA January 16, 2022January 16, 2022
SWAT team members deploy near Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, Jan. 15, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Andy Jacobsohn-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

SFPD to increase patrols around Jewish institutions in wake of hostage-taking at Texas synagogue

by JTA and J. Staff January 15, 2022January 18, 2022
The MANA Chabad Jewish Center's virtual exterior is designed to replicate Chabad World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, bringing its iconic look to the Metaverse.
Posted inTech

Yep, Chabad is everywhere — even in the virtual reality ‘metaverse’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 14, 2022February 2, 2022
Activists with the Jewish climate change group Dayenu at a New York City event in April 2021. (Photo/JTA-Gili Getz)
Posted inU.S.

Roadblocks ahead as activists push for Jewish fossil fuel divestment

Arno Rosenfeld by Arno Rosenfeld and Forward January 13, 2022
Rebekah Erev, co-founder of the Queer Mikveh Project, blows the shofar at the first QMP mikvah event at the Albany Bulb in Albany, California, in 2015. (Photo/JTA-Chani Bockwinkel)
Posted inReligion

The Queer Mikveh Project immerses marginalized Jews in a changing ritual

by Rachel Román and JTA January 12, 2022January 13, 2022
A program cover from a 1920s Yiddish Press Ball in Warsaw is shown before and after conservation treatment. It and thousands of other programs and posters can be seen as part of the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project. (Photo/Courtesy YIVO)
Posted inHistory

From the reverent to the raunchy, YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA January 11, 2022January 11, 2022
Robert Durst appears in court to hear his life sentence for murder, at the Airport Courthouse in Los Angeles, Oct. 14, 2021 .(Photo/JTA-Myung J. Chun-Los Angeles Times-Pool Photo)
Posted inU.S.

Robert Durst, real estate scion who was convicted of murdering his best friend, is dead at 78

by Ron Kampeas and JTA January 11, 2022
Deborah Lipstadt at a showing of “Denial” at the Rome Film Festival, Oct. 17, 2016. (Photo/JTA-Elisabetta A. Villa-WireImage)
Posted inNews

‘Antisemitism is not a game’: Why the Senate holdup on Biden’s antisemitism envoy matters

by Jacob Kornbluh and Forward January 10, 2022
Travelers at Ben Gurion Airport, Dec. 22, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Flash90)
Posted inU.S.

Israel to allow US visitors back in for the first time since November

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA January 6, 2022

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