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"Jew street," as it is known locally, was once a hub for Judeo-Malayalam, the now endangered language spoken by the Jews of India's Cochin region. (Photo/JTA-Christabel Lobo)

Bay Area

Saving endangered Jewish languages, from Ladino to Judeo-Malayalam

What are the Jewish languages? Some are well known — Hebrew is the language of the Torah and of Israel, and Yiddish was the language of the shtetls and…
By Maya Mirsky Mar 22, 2021
Argentinian Jews moving to Israel get off the plane at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv in 2020. (Photo/JTA-Jewish Agency for Israel)

World

Driven by uncertainty at home, Argentinian Jews flock to Israel

Travel restrictions and lockdowns due to the global pandemic didn’t stop Argentinian Jews from making the move to Israel – aliyah rose in 2020 by 26…
By JTA Mar 16, 2021
A choir in a synagogue in Alexandria, Egypt, in the 1960s. (Photo/Wikimedia)

World

Egypt introduces Judaism into its school curriculum

Students in Egyptian public schools will be learning Torah verses and about Jewish culture, thanks to a recent decision by the country’s Ministry of…
By David Ian Klein, Forward Mar 11, 2021
The interior of the Great Synagogue of Slonim, Belarus, pictured in 2007. (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)

World

In Eastern Europe, historic synagogues go for as little as $40

On a visit to the city of Slonim in Belarus, Ilona Reeves fell in love with a 380-year-old dilapidated building that used to house one of the area’s…
By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA Mar 5, 2021
BBC headquarters in Central London in 2017. (Photo/JTA-Vuk Valcic-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)

World

BBC debate on whether Jews are an ethnic minority sparks outrage

The BBC has been accused of bias in its coverage of Israel for decades. Now the public broadcaster is taking flak from British Jews for coverage much…
By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA Mar 3, 2021
A Purim parade in Tel Aviv, Feb. 26, 2021. Celebrations took place during the day because the government imposed a curfew to prevent the spread of Covid-19. (Photo/JTA-Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)

World

Masks of all kinds: Scenes from a pandemic Purim across the world

It might have felt hard for many to summon a festive mood this Purim, which was for some the first holiday to be unsettled by the pandemic and for others…
By JTA Feb 28, 2021
A worker clears shattered glass outside a shop damaged by a rocket attack the previous night in Erbil, the capital of the Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region. (Photo/JTA-Safin Hamed-AFP via Getty Images)

U.S.

U.S. strikes Iranian-backed targets in Syria

President Joe Biden ordered an airstrike on Iranian-backed militias in Syria, his first military action. The strike Thursday at a point near Syria’s…
By Ron Kampeas, JTA Feb 26, 2021
Opposition political leader Alexei Navalny's supporters seen marching in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Jan. 31, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Aleksey Fokin-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)

World

Why Russian Jews are divided over the anti-Putin movement

Lucy Shteyn is only 24 years old, but she already has firsthand knowledge of what awaits vocal critics of President Vladimir Putin in her native Russia.…
By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA Feb 24, 2021
A chance encounter between a law professor and a Holocaust survivor prompted a feel-good story (which may or may not be true) to circulate online. (Photo/JTA-Getty Images)

History

Is Bonne Maman an anti-Nazi jam?

The heartwarming story has been hard to miss: A law professor is shopping at his local grocery store when sees an elderly woman struggling to get her…
By Gabe Friedman, Philissa Cramer, JTA Feb 18, 2021
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