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Zabulon Simantov reads a prayer book before celebrating Rosh Hashanah in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 18, 2009. (Photo/JTA-Paula Bronstein-Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

The last known Jew in Afghanistan is leaving

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA April 5, 2021
Representatives of the E3+2 group (China, France, Germany, Russia, United Kingdom) and Iran meet in Vienna, Austria, July 28, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Alex Halada-AFP-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

US and Iran to join talks aimed at rejoining nuclear deal

by Ron Kampeas and JTA April 2, 2021
Rabbi Youssef Moussa (left) and his brother Salem sit in an apartment in Sanaa, Yemen, Nov. 10, 2009, after fleeing conflict in the northern part of the country. (Photo/JTA-Marwan Naamani-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized, World

Yemen’s Jewish population, once over 50,000, drops to below 10

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA April 1, 2021
Matzah travels on the production line of the Tiferet HaMatzot factory in Dnepro, Ukraine, Dec. 8, 2014. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inHolidays

Jews in the former Soviet Union eat pounds of matzah per person — the most in the world — every year. Here’s why.

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA March 29, 2021March 29, 2021
The Jews of Color Initiative's Ilana Kaufman (blue shirt and glasses, seventh from left) and Angel Alvarez-Mapp (black shirt and glasses, sixth from left) meet with Jewish community leaders at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.
Posted inUncategorized

Steven Spielberg giving $200,000 to Bay Area-based Jews of Color Initiative

by JTA and J. Staff March 26, 2021March 29, 2021
A 400-meter-long and 59-meter wide vessel is lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across the waterway of Egypt's Suez Canal. (Photo/JTA-Suez Canal Authority-Handout-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inPassover

10 of the best Jewish tweets about the pre-Passover Suez Canal blockage

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA March 25, 2021
Shoppers faced with empty produce shelves in Belfast, Jan. 14, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Charles McQuillan-Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

A Brexit Passover food shortage is forcing the Jews of Ireland and Northern Ireland to work together

by Jacob Judah and JTA March 24, 2021
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio visited the Ezra Medical Center to speak with Holocaust survivors who were getting their Covid-19 shots. (Photo/JTA-Twitter-@NYCMayor)
Posted inU.S.

Germany funds vaccination drive for Holocaust survivors

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA March 24, 2021
"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)
Posted inHistory

The fight to save endangered Jewish languages, from Ladino to Judeo-Malayalam

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 22, 2021March 29, 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)
Posted inWorld

Driven by uncertainty at home, Argentinian Jews flock to Israel

by JTA March 16, 2021

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