Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) is a global news organization and wire service that caters to Jewish community newspapers and media worldwide. Their website features a list of 88 subscribing outlets.

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Can weight-loss drugs help in cancer treatment? This Jewish organization is on the case

2 days ago | jta.org | Larry Luxner

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Jamie Mafdali of South Florida was hit with a cancer double-whammy three years ago. Shortly after her mother began treatment for breast cancer and learned it had metastasized, Mafdali herself was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma in her left breast. Given her family history, Mafdali, now 45, decided to get a bilateral mastectomy.
Pope Francis, who advanced church's relationships with Jews, dies at 88 - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

2 days ago | jta.org | Andrew Silow-Carroll

“Dialogue and friendship with the children of Israel are part of the life of Jesus’ disciples,” Francis wrote in 2018.
Pope Francis' final speech called for ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza war

3 days ago | jta.org | Philissa Cramer

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In his final public speech, delivered less than 24 hours before his death, Pope Francis addressed the war in Gaza, expressing sympathy for the Palestinian people and calling for an end to the war that includes the release of Israeli hostages. Francis made the comments in his annual Easter speech, which an archbishop delivered while Francis was seated on the the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
Israeli army fires deputy commander after finding 'operational errors' in killing of 15 Gazans

3 days ago | jta.org | Philissa Cramer

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An Israeli army deputy commander is being dismissed as a result of the Israel Defense Forces’ investigation into what happened last month when soldiers fired on medics in an ambulance in Gaza. Fifteen people were killed in the incident, which took place on March 23, days after a two-month ceasefire ended.
Josh Shapiro recounts arson terror but does not back Schumer's call for federal hate crime investigation

6 days ago | jta.org | Philissa Cramer

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro revealed on Thursday that investigators had managed to retrieve ritual Passover items from the dining room that was heavily damaged by an arsonist’s fire shortly after his family’s seder on Saturday night.
These 16 Jewish businesses are redefining Orchard Street for a new era - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

1 week ago | jta.org | Jackie Hajdenberg

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For a trip through New York City’s Jewish history and a glimpse of its present and future, there’s no better seven-block stretch than Orchard Street on the Lower East Side. The neighborhood was once the epicenter of Jewish life in America. Starting with a wave of Jewish immigration from the Russian Empire in the 1880s due to a plague of pogroms after the assassination of the tsar, by 1910 there were an .
Alleged Josh Shapiro arsonist believed he was fighting for Palestinians, police say

1 week ago | jta.org | Andrew Lapin

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The man suspected of setting fire to the home of Pennsylvania’s Jewish governor, Josh Shapiro, said he targeted Shapiro because of “what he wants to do to the Palestinian people,” according to a search warrant signed by state police and quoted by local news outlets.
Eyeing an escape route in the Trump era, these American Jews are moving to Canada

1 week ago | jta.org | Andrew Lapin

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A year ago, Sarah Resnick had a good job and a Jewish community she liked in New York. She gave all that up to move to Winnipeg, a city where she knew nobody, in a country where she was not a citizen, in a climate whose extremes she was not used to. “Do I prefer walking the dog in negative-40? No,” Resnick recalled of her first winter in Winnipeg.
From 5 a.m. tipoffs to bar mitzvah trips, Israelis are reveling in Deni Avdija’s breakout season

1 week ago | jta.org | Jacob Gurvis

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Oren Manor likes to boast that he was a Deni Avdija fan before it was cool. Manor, an Israeli sportswriter, has been following Avdija since he was a 16-year-old playing in Maccabi Tel Aviv’s youth program. He wasn’t surprised to see the small forward, now 24, have a breakout year this season with the Portland Trail Blazers. But now, Manor is far from alone on the Avdija bandwagon.
Trump is about to talk to Iran, Israel’s sworn enemy. Here’s what you need to know.

2 weeks ago | jta.org | Ben Sales

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Donald Trump loves making dramatic pronouncements in his Oval Office meetings — and his revelation that the United States was entering talks with Iran was no exception. Sitting alongside Benjamin Netanyahu during the Israeli prime minister’s second White House visit, he told the world that, within days, the United States would open direct talks with Iran — Israel’s archnemesis.