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Snakes at a kiddush: An Israeli museum is celebrating its baby pythons with a traditional ceremony

July 8, 2021Arsen Mayer

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Tokyo Olympics: All the Jewish athletes to watch

July 2, 2021Arsen Mayer

(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 […]

Biden kneels before Orthodox adviser to Israel’s president after learning she has 12 children

July 2, 2021Mark Hershlag

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Major Orthodox rabbis in Israel say everyone 12 and up should be vaccinated

June 29, 2021Arsen Mayer

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New Israeli Diaspora minister travels to comfort Jews in Surfside — and looks to mend US ties

June 28, 2021Arsen Mayer

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 […]

New Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid to Antony Blinken: Let’s keep disagreements private

June 28, 2021Arsen Mayer

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Israel reintroduces mandatory face masks amid a rise in COVID-19 cases

June 28, 2021Arsen Mayer

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73 congressional Democrats to Biden: Reverse more of Trump’s Israel policies and call settlements illegal

June 24, 2021Arsen Mayer

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 […]

Quentin Tarantino opens up about learning Hebrew, his life in Tel Aviv and being an ‘abba’

June 24, 2021Arsen Mayer

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Honduras opens embassy in Jerusalem, becoming 4th country to make the move

June 24, 2021Jesse Orine

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