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Israeli President Isaac Herzog writes the final letter to in a Torah initiated by Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky, April 2024 in Jerusalem. (Courtesy Israeli president's office)
Israeli president adds final letter to wartime Torah for Ukrainian Jews initiated by Zelensky
By Marcel Gascón Barberá - JTA
The Torah, which will be brought back to Ukraine in the coming months and placed in one of the synagogues in the country’s capital, was an initiative of Kyiv’s chief rabbi.
A Jewish mother and an illustrator have teamed up to create an unofficial Taylor Swift haggadah for Passover this year. (Courtesy Shelley Atlas Serber, Wikimedia. Design by Jackie Hajdenberg)
April 11, 2024, 10:34 am
The exodus story you know ‘All Too Well’ gets retold in new Taylor Swift haggadah
"When we started talking about Pesach, she remarked that there are a lot of parallels between the story and themes of Pesach, and Taylor Swift’s music — and the idea was born!” 
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
Israeli President Isaac Herzog writes the final letter to in a Torah initiated by Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky, April 2024 in Jerusalem. (Courtesy Israeli president's office)
April 4, 2024, 11:07 am
Israeli president adds final letter to wartime Torah for Ukrainian Jews initiated by Zelensky
The Torah, which will be brought back to Ukraine in the coming months and placed in one of the synagogues in the country’s capital, was an initiative of Kyiv's chief rabbi.
By Marcel Gascón Barberá - JTA
A photograph of a business selling Rosh Hashanah cards on the Lower East Side in 1936 and a photograph of the Eldridge Street Synagogue taken in 1930, both by Percy Loomis Sperr. (Courtesy Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library.)
March 22, 2024, 8:50 am
The New York Public Library’s Jewish division digitised 800 years of Jewish history
The collection includes the very first edition, in 1897, of the Yiddish daily newspaper Der Forverts, scripts of plays from the Yiddish writer Sholem Asch and photos of the Lower East Side from more than 100 years ago
By Julia Gergely JTA
February 8, 2024, 12:37 pm
Report gives snapshot of UK Jewish life on eve of Gaza war
88 percent of British Jews have been to Israel at least once, and 73 percent say that they feel very or somewhat attached to the country
By Jenni Frazer
Congregants pray at the synagogue of Porto, Portugal. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Porto)
December 19, 2023, 1:40 pm
Porto Jewish community files ’21st century blood libel’ lawsuit in Lisbon court
Community seeks £8,63m in damages from the state, claiming measures taken by the attorney general and police led to 'tens of thousands of messages of hatred'
By JN Reporter
A bowl of raw organic Israeli couscous. (Getty Images)
December 18, 2023, 10:10 am
Did Yale remove the word ‘Israeli’ from a campus couscous dish? Yes and no
Sophomore Sahar Tartak posted on X that a dish offered on campus named “Israeli couscous salad with spinach and tomatoes” had been renamed to remove the word “Israeli.”
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
Photo credit: The Western Wall Heritage Foundation
October 4, 2023, 12:08 pm
50,000 Jews participate in priestly blessing at Western Wall
According to authorities, more than half a million people have visited the Western Wall since the beginning of the holiday.
By JN Reporter
Israel's Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi joined a Jewish morning prayer in Saudi Arabia as he leads an Israeli delegation to the Kingdom. Courtesy: X/Twitter
October 4, 2023, 7:03 am
Israeli Minister holds morning prayer in Saudi Arabia during landmark visit
'Just as the windows in the house of Daniel were opened facing Jerusalem, so too in Riyadh we were able to pray with windows open facing Jerusalem,' Shlomo Karhi said.
By JN Reporter
The orthodox Jewish group of Rosh Yehudi sets up a gender divider, amongst protests, during a public prayer on Dizengoff Square for Yom Kippur. September 24, 2023. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90 *** Local Caption *** יום כיפור כיפורים כיכר דיזנגוף הפרדה ראש יהודי תל אביב
September 26, 2023, 11:32 am
Secular and Orthodox Israelis clash over enforced public gender segregation in Tel Aviv
The Supreme Court upheld a ruling by Tel Aviv municipality, banning gender-segregated prayers in public places in the city. Police, however, failed to adequately enforce the ban.
By Jotam Confino in Israel
Israeli chef Shachar Yogev serves a burger made with "cultured chicken" meat at The Chicken, SuperMeat's restaurant adjacent to their production site in the Israeli town of Ness Ziona on June 18, 2021. (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
September 11, 2023, 9:55 am
Orthodox Union certifies Israeli brand of lab-grown meat as kosher — but not pareve
The O.U., the most prominent kosher certifier in the United States, now recognises poultry products from Israeli startup SuperMeat as kosher.
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
170 young Jewish boys and girls from Europe, Africa and Asia gathered in Warsaw for a summer camp at Hilton Hotel, marking the first such camp since the Holocaust. 
August 31, 2023, 4:44 pm
Summer camp in Poland brings Jewish kids together for first time since the war
"I can’t even describe how wonderful the experience was for our kids. My children came back home bubbling with energy. They can’t stop talking about it," said the mother of a Jewish child from Morocco.
By JN Reporter
Brothers Angus (left) and Aaron Pollock receive their A-level results.
August 17, 2023, 3:46 pm
A-level students celebrate ‘incredible achievements’ after return to pre-pandemic grading
JCoSS announced "truly exceptional" results while at Yavneh College 50% of all grades were A*-A. JFS, meanwhile, reported 60% of all grades at A or A*.
By JN Reporter
August 17, 2023, 12:23 pm
Children of Leonard Bernstein defend Bradley Cooper’s portrayal of composer
Cooper had come under fire for what critics have called not using acting to “get the power of the man’s story and Jewishness”.
By Charlotte McLaughlin (PA Senior Entertainment Reporter)
ECY6G7 United Airlines Boeing 777 in flight
August 16, 2023, 11:14 am
‘Humiliation’: Woman ‘yelled’ at by airline for refusing to change seat for ultra-Orthodox man
'A United crew member yelled at me that the flight to NYC won’t take off because of me after I refused to move,' Neria Kraus said.
By Jotam Confino in Israel
Paul Cohen at his home in Narsaq, Greenland. (Dan Fellner)
August 16, 2023, 9:05 am
The only Jew in remote Greenland sometimes feels like ‘the last person on earth’
'It’s the Garden of Eden in many ways.I feel like I’m living in the heart of a national park,' Paul Cohen says.
By Dan Fellner (JTA)
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