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 ...
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My congregation prayed at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue. Here’s how we are coping this Rosh Hashana.
By BETH KISSILEFF PITTSBURGH (JTA) — Our sages teach us that “kol hatchalot kashot,” all beginnings are difficult. This phrase ...
Alex Borstein’s ‘Step out of line’ speech at the Emmys was a perfect display of Jewish pride
By JORDANA HORN SHORT HILLS, N.J. (JTA) — Whether you watched the Emmys on Sunday night or or not, chances ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bret Stephens leaves Twitter after user compares him to bedbugs
By GABE FRIEDMAN (JTA) — Bret Stephens has left Twitter abruptly, apparently motivated by a spat with a George Washington ...
Reform leader Gilad Kariv wants to be the first non-Orthodox rabbi in the Knesset
By SAM SOKOL JERUSALEM (JTA) — Growing up secular in 1970s Tel Aviv, Gilad Kariv never expected to become a ...
For this prominent Jewish Republican, Trump’s ‘disloyalty’ jab is a bridge too far
By RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — Of the many Jews unsettled by President Donald Trump’s claim that voting for Democrats ...
How the Berlin Jewish Museum became a political lightning rod
By TOBY AXELROD BERLIN (JTA) — The Berlin Jewish Museum, in the center of Germany’s capital, catches the eye with ...
Here’s what Trump officials and supporters are saying to critics of his Iran policy
By RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump says he is “very prepared” for Iran. “We’re looking at Iran,” ...
