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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Speaking at an Israeli embassy Pride event, Rachel Levine, the openly transgender Jewish deputy secretary of health in the Biden administration, called on people to “stand together…
JTA — In 2014, Highland Park was included in an article on communities across the country that were melding Jewish pride into their ceremonies for July 4, which that year…
NEW YORK — A Jewish advocacy group on Tuesday filed formal requests for investigations into a public law school over its faculty’s support for the anti-Israel boycott movement, saying it…
HIGHLAND PARK, Illinois (JTA) – Bright Bowls was open for July 4 in Highland Park’s main commercial district, and its owners, Lindsay and Matt Meltzer, were prepared for a busy…
The tiny Jewish community of Kyrgyzstan does not have many allies. With only several hundred Jews, few international Jewish organizations maintain a significant presence in the relatively poor former Soviet…
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — A panel of Tennessee judges has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a couple who alleged that a state-sponsored Christian adoption agency refused to help them because…
Russian authorities recently made a number of difficult demands of the Jewish Agency’s offices in the country, in a highly unusual move that threatens the semi-governmental organization’s ability to operate…
JTA — When “Saturday Night Seder,” a Passover-themed virtual comedy show, was a hit at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, its funders realized there was a strong appetite for…
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Nate Looney is a Black man who grew up in Los Angeles, a descendant of enslaved people from generations ago. He’s also an observant, kippah-wearing…
BUDAPEST (JTA) — For the last few months, a lakeside palace linked to a major political scandal in Hungary has been home to Jewish refugees from Ukraine. Just before Passover,…