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This Portuguese Jewish community couldn’t afford a rabbi. Now it made a $1 million movie coming to Amazon.
By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ (JTA) — A decade ago, the tiny Jewish Community of Porto didn’t have enough money to hire a...
AJW 2020 Community Guide is in the works
There is still a window of opportunity to advertise in the 2020 Community Guide, our comprehensive directory of Jewish resources...
In Ukraine, aid for needy Jews comes with a catch
By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ ODESSA, Ukraine (JTA) — Alina Feoktistova always knew she was Jewish, but the first time she sought...
‘Why is it that I can’t say something against the Jews?’ Malaysia’s leader asks at Columbia
By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN NEW YORK (JTA) — The prime minister of Malaysia defended his past anti-Semitic statements and questioned the...
A Guatemalan asylum seeker is being sheltered in a Washington state synagogue
By BEN SALES (JTA) — In a few weeks, the congregants at Temple Beth Hatfiloh in Olympia, Wash., will gather...
5 things to watch after Israel’s too-close-to-call election
By MARCY OSTER JERUSALEM (JTA) — The morning after Israel’s second national election in five months, the results are still...
What does John Bolton’s departure mean for Israel?
By RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — Benjamin Netanyahu had quite a Tuesday. One week before Israelis go to the polls...
CORRECTION: Or Emet’s High Holidays services
An outdated ad for High Holidays services at Or Emet–Minnesota Congregration for Humanistic Judaism ran in the Jewish World's September...
Ari Shapiro connects current immigration stories to Jewish experience
Once a month, a freezer truck from Chicago would pull into the Fargo synagogue parking lot where his family and...
Rabbi helps dedicate a memorial to Ukrainian group that collaborated with the Nazis
By SAM SOKOL (JTA) — One side called it a fitting compromise. The other said it was a whitewash of Ukraine’s...
