World After synagogue attack, Tunisian president downplays antisemitism (JTA) — In response to questions about antisemitism in his country posed days after a deadly synagogue shooting in Djerba, Tunisian President Kais Saied… By Gabe Friedman May 16, 2023
World Tunisia’s Jewish pilgrimage and Tuesday’s shooting, explained When a security official opened fire outside a Tunisian synagogue during a pilgrimage on Tuesday night, killing two Jewish pilgrims and two security… By Ben Sales, JTA May 11, 2023
World Indian Jews reeling after 1 killed, synagogue burned in crossfire India’s small Bnei Menashe community is reeling after a member was killed and a synagogue was burned during violent clashes in the country’s northeast.… By Jordyn Haime, JTA May 10, 2023
World 5 killed in shooting attack on historic Tunisian synagogue A gunman killed five people in an attack on an ancient synagogue in Tunisia, during an annual pilgrimage that attracts thousands of Jews and is seen as a… By Ron Kampeas, JTA May 10, 2023
World All the Jewish details of King Charles’ very interfaith coronation At a reception of faith leaders at Buckingham Palace the day after Queen Elizabeth’s death in September, King Charles pulled Britain’s chief rabbi,… By Deborah Danan, Gabe Friedman, JTA May 5, 2023
Obituaries South African journalist, former J. staff, murdered in home burglary Jeremy Gordin, one of South Africa’s most prominent journalists, wrote repeatedly in recent months about burglaries at his family’s Johannesburg home. In… By Marcel Gascón Barberá, JTA May 3, 2023
World At some seders, an empty seat for journalist jailed in Russia Shayndi Raice, a Wall Street Journal reporter based in Israel was part of a move to get Jews around the world dedicate a portion of their Passover seder… By David I. Klein, JTA Apr 7, 2023
World Ukrainian Jews celebrate Passover amid new normal Yuliia Krainiakova fled her home in Kharkiv, Ukraine, after Russian troops invaded last year and made her way to Berlin, where she and her daughters… By Marcel Gascón Barberá, JTA Apr 5, 2023
Religion First Ukrainian haggadah marks community's break with Russia For Michal Stamova, the challenge of translating Passover’s core text into Ukrainian started with the title. The haggadah — the book containing the… By David I. Klein, JTA Mar 30, 2023