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United States

Joint Distribution Committee chooses new president following first contested election

By Ben Sales December 9, 2019

Michelle Farber, who has spent her career studying and teaching Jewish texts, is organizing the first large-scale ceremony to celebrate women completing of Daf Yomi, a program where students learn a page of Talmud daily for seven-and-a-half years. (Ben Sales)

Israel

Talmud study is mostly a boys’ club. This Orthodox woman wants to change that.

By Ben Sales December 9, 2019

United States

New York enacts law to teach police officers how to recognize hate crimes amid rise in anti-Semitism

By Ben Sales November 25, 2019

United States

Life was good for the Jews of this New York suburb. Then a schoolteacher was stabbed.

By Ben Sales November 21, 2019

United States

Jewish man stabbed repeatedly outside New York synagogue

By Laura E. Adkins and Ben Sales November 20, 2019

Explainer

Everything you need to know about Israeli settlements and the Trump administration’s announcement

By Laura E. Adkins and Ben Sales November 19, 2019

Alexander Vindman

Politics

Ukraine asked Alexander Vindman to be its defense minister, and other takeaways from his impeachment testimony

By Ben Sales November 19, 2019

A rendering of the exterior of the proposed "SynaCondo." (Courtesy of Esther Sperber)

United States

These Manhattan synagogues want to become condominiums

By Ben Sales November 18, 2019

Pastor Aaron Dudley leads a service at the Machias Christian Fellowship church in Machias, Maine on Sunday, February 19, 2017. (Gregory Rec/Getty Images)

United States

More than one-third of US Christians have heard their clergy speak out about Jews

By Ben Sales November 15, 2019

Yair Golan during a tour of the Plenary Hall at the Knesset on September 25, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel

Yair Golan was once Netanyahu’s pick to head the army. Now he calls him a ‘coward.’

By Ben Sales November 14, 2019

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