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is the online coordinator for JTA.

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• The cutest golf rapper ever

  July 19, 2013 10:37am

  Watch the cutest golf rap ever you didn’t know existed.

• A history of banning shechitah

  July 18, 2013 2:33pm

  Since the late 1800s many countries have attempted to ban ritual slaughter.

• Calif. board votes in student leader of BDS movement as regent

  July 17, 2013 3:56pm

  A student leader in the anti-Israel divestment campaign at the University of California, Berkeley, was elected to serve on the University of California system’s Board of Regents.

• A call for unity this Tisha b’Av

  July 15, 2013 3:11pm

  In a fractured world of Jewish communities, the OU and the RCA have called for unity this Tisha b’Av

• Trayvon Martin: ADL reacts

  July 15, 2013 1:13pm

  The ADL has released a statement on the Trayvon Martin case.

• It doesn’t end with Birthright

  July 12, 2013 11:57am

  By Samantha Altit, Courtesy of JUFNews When I left the University of Illinois at the end of the school year I didn’t realize that my summer was going to be all about Israel. I had amazing plans to visit Israel and afterwards be a part of JUF’s Lewis Summer Internship program and work in the…

• Silver Spring attorney fights Monster over youth deaths

  July 12, 2013 11:51am

  By David Holzel – Senior Writer Courtesy of Washington Jewish Week Anais Fournier of Hagerstown, and Alex Morris of Oakland, Calif., lived a continent apart, but they had two things in common: they were both teenagers and they both consumed Monster Energy drinks before their sudden deaths. That’s Silver Spring attorney Kevin Goldberg’s contention. He…

• Michael Oren’s tenure

  July 11, 2013 3:35pm

  With Michael Oren’s tenure as Israel’s ambassador to the United States winding down, we mine the JTA Archive for some highlights of Oren’s time in Washington.

• The Jew who wrote the lyrics Kanye West samples on ‘Blood on the Leaves’

  July 10, 2013 9:05am

  A Jewish communist wrote the lyrics to a song recorded by Nina Simone and now sampled by Kanye West.

• Israel’s U.S. envoy Michael Oren to leave post

  July 5, 2013 1:53pm

  Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to Washington, announced that he will be leaving his post this fall.