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‘Words alone have no power to comfort’: Family of hostage Omer Neutra, killed by Hamas, calls for deal to save living captives
For months, the family of Omer Neutra has called, in speech after speech, for a deal that would free him and the other ...
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Flags on New York State buildings will be flown at half-mast Tuesday for Omer Neutra
News broke Monday that Neutra, American-Israeli citizen who grew up on Long Island, was killed during Hamas' attack on Israel ...
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UNRWA pauses aid deliveries to Gaza through key crossing, blaming Israel for looting
The announcement came one day after another aid agency, World Central Kitchen, said three of its workers were killed in an ...
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Trump promises ‘all hell to pay in the Middle East’ if hostages are not released by Inauguration Day
The comments came hours after Israel announced that an American-Israeli hostage had in fact died on Oct. 7, 2023.
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The 11-year-old son of a cantor makes a splashy NYC theater debut in ‘Drag: The Musical’
After years singing in synagogue, Yair Keydar is now performing in off-Broadway's “Drag: The Musical,” alongside former New ...
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Omer Neutra, American-Israeli hostage held in Gaza, confirmed killed on Oct. 7
Omer Neutra, an American-Israeli held hostage in Gaza, was killed by Hamas during its attack on Oct. 7, 2023, the Israeli ...
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Viral statistics about Nova survivors’ suicides are unsubstantiated. But everyone agrees they’re in crisis.
An Israeli lawmaker said there had been dozens of suicides among survivors of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. Shirel Golan's is ...
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After pardoning Jared Kushner’s father in his first term, Trump picks him as ambassador to France for his second
Trump gave roles to Charles Kushner and Massad Boulos, both of his daughters’ fathers in law. President-elect Donald Trump ...
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Andorra, where non-Catholic houses of worship are illegal, gets its first full-time rabbi
Kuty Kalmenson and his family will serve the principality’s tiny Jewish population — and the likely larger number of Jewish ...
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In a post Oct. 7 world, what are Jewish high school seniors looking for in a college?
This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. The Jewish ...
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Three new books capture an era when Jews were (literally) on the same page
In the mid-20th century, American Jewish reading tastes were shaped by the Cold War, assimilation and the gender gap.
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Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96
She claimed Auschwitz was just a work camp, not a death camp, and that nobody had been gassed to death there. She challenged a German court to prove that the Nazis committed mass murder, and ...