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Tell JTA: What are you thankful for this year? (We know it might be a hard question.)

We’ll include your responses in our 2020 Thanksgiving roundup.

By JTA Staff November 23, 2020 11:43 am

Jewish DC theater maven Ari Roth leaves second company in 6 years over Palestinian content issue

In 2014, Roth was fired from a theater company over concerns he was too pro-Palestinian. Now he’s leaving a company he founded partly because of an “exclusively Palestinian-centered festival.”

November 20, 2020 5:03 pm

A new documentary about George Soros, pictured above giving an interview in the film's trailer, has been called a 'hagiography.' (Screenshot)

‘Soros’ documentary gets negative reviews

If Soros’ charity “had a headquarters that offered tours, this is the film they’d have on continuous loop in the visitors’ center,” read one review.

November 20, 2020 3:40 pm

Gal Garber and Mathilde Lair preparing jachnun in their apartment in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Nov. 20, 2020. (Mathilde Lair)

How homemade jachnun is giving a lifeline to European Jews in a second COVID wave

By Cnaan Liphshiz November 20, 2020 2:56 pm

750 Jewish and Holocaust scholars sign petition protesting far-right politician tapped to lead Yad Vashem

By Ben Sales November 19, 2020 12:52 pm

Meet Rick Doblin, the Jewish psychedelics advocate working to turn a club drug into legal medicine

By Ben Harris November 19, 2020 12:04 pm

Black Jewish novelist Walter Mosley honored with National Book Foundation’s lifetime achievement award

By Emily Burack November 19, 2020 10:25 am

Jewish day schools and yeshivas remain open as NYC public schools close

By Shira Hanau November 18, 2020 6:27 pm

Their annual gathering impossible, Chabad rabbis convene on Zoom — for days and days

By Shira Hanau November 18, 2020 5:19 pm

A Jewish cohousing movement is on the rise — but challenges beyond COVID remain

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten November 18, 2020 1:20 pm

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