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Conservative Jewish women wear prayer shawls and carry Torah scrolls at the Western Wall, Dec. 18, 2009. The conflict between these women and religious Jews in Israel has sparked different responses from local Jews. Courtesy Yossi Zamir, JTA.
Conservative Jewish women wear prayer shawls and carry Torah scrolls at the Western Wall, Dec. 18, 2009. The conflict between these women and religious Jews in Israel has sparked different responses from local Jews. Courtesy Yossi Zamir, JTA.
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A multi-generational leadership effort is bringing Lithuania back to life in ways virtually no one believed possible just a few years ago, but it needs assistance, writes the president of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation.
The U.S. State Department annual human rights report cited Palestinian incitement and Israel's denial of some basic Palestinian needs as ongoing problems in the region
The White House has released its transcript of Biden’s speech this afternoon at Tel Aviv University. No advance copy was distributed—probably because the speech was being tweaked until the last minute (Biden started more than half an hour late), an exigency of how exactly he would fold his frustration with this week’s announcement of settlement building into a speech that was otherwise meant to be a love offering.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's attempt to reassure Israel of American steadfastness survived a steadfast Middle East tradition of self-sabotage.
Brandeis University's Muslim chaplain issued an appeal for the return of his Koran days after his campus office was vandalized.
A Swedish court ruled that the man accused of organizing the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei” sign from the front gate of Auschwitz can be extradited to Poland.
Reactions to Vice President Joe Biden’s remarks Thursday at Tel Aviv University and his overall trip to Israel.
Memoirs about American Jews becoming Israelis love to play the incredulous-Israeli card. You’re moving where? To the Middle East? Are you insane?
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum welcomed its 30 millionth visitor this week.
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