(JTA) — The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are finally happening, a full year after they were planned. And yes, they’re still being called the 2020 Olympics, even though they’re happening in 2021. The Jewish athletes competing this year — and there are many — are the products of inspiring journeys. There’s the fencer looking for redemption, Israel’s […]
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Biden kneels before Orthodox adviser to Israel’s president after learning she has 12 children – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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Major Orthodox rabbis in Israel say everyone 12 and up should be vaccinated – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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SURFSIDE, Fla. (JTA) — Nachman Shai’s first visit to the United States as Israel’s new minister for Diaspora affairs was not under normal circumstances. “In hard times, in times of disaster, we have to stand shoulder to shoulder with Americans,” he said in an interview on Sunday in The Shul, the Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue located about […]
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New Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid to Antony Blinken: Let’s keep disagreements private – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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Israel reintroduces mandatory face masks amid a rise in COVID-19 cases – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — A letter from 73 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, including a number in leadership positions, urges President Joe Biden to make a number of moves to reverse what they call the Trump administration’s “abandonment of longstanding, bipartisan United States policy” on Israeli-Palestinian relations. Among other things, the letter sent Wednesday […]
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Quentin Tarantino opens up about learning Hebrew, his life in Tel Aviv and being an ‘abba’ – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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Honduras opens embassy in Jerusalem, becoming 4th country to make the move – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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In the century or so since its founding as Israel’s first university, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has acquired a reputation as a driving force of Israeli innovation. Four Nobel Prize winners and several recipients of the prestigious Israel Prize are among its more than 100,000 graduates and faculty — not to mention creators of […]
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