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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For this I became a Jew? Yes, for exactly this I became a Jew.

2 days ago | jta.org | Meg Keene

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In keeping with Jewish tradition that makes no differentiation between those who are born Jews and those who become them, I rarely talk about being a convert. But in light of the antisemitic attacks in America over the last two weeks, and as we celebrated Shavuot, a holiday honoring a convert, I wanted to break that silence. My beit din — the rabbinic court that signed off on my conversion — was exactly 16 years minus a month ago.
Ben & Jerry’s board denounces ‘genocide in Gaza’ in ice-cream maker’s latest salvo against Israel

1 week ago | jta.org | Andrew Lapin

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The board of Ben & Jerry’s, the ice cream company founded by two progressive Jews, is reportedly calling Israel’s war in Gaza a “genocide” in a new statement.
Trump appoints Paul Ingrassia, staffer linked to Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate, to senior federal watchdog role

1 week ago | jta.org | Andrew Lapin

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... President Donald Trump has appointed Paul Ingrassia, a right-wing attorney and onetime podcaster who has defended avowed white supremacist Nick Fuentes and worked with antisemitic influencer Andrew Tate, to a new senior role as head of the United States Office of Special Counsel. It is the second promotion this week for a federal staffer with a record involving antisemitism.
Trump confirms he told Netanyahu not to attack Iran, saying, 'I don't think it's appropriate'

1 week ago | jta.org | Ben Sales

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... President Donald Trump says he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to attack Iran while negotiations over the Iranian nuclear program were nearing a deal. “Well, I’d like to be honest. Yes, I did,” Trump said at a press conference Wednesday, when asked whether he warned Netanyahu against disrupting the negotiations in a phone call last week.
Helena Weinrauch, Holocaust survivor and ‘dancing angel,’ dies at 100 - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

1 week ago | jta.org | Jackie Hajdenberg

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... New Yorker Helena Weinstock Weinrauch, a Holocaust survivor known for taking up ballroom dancing in her late 80s, died at her home on the Upper West Side on Sunday. She was just one week shy of her 101st birthday. The cause was likely congestive heart failure, her niece Judy Paskind said. “She loved being made up and dressed up,” Paskind, a retired accountant, recalled.
On the menu at this New York City book club: Deep discussions about Jewish identity. - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

1 week ago | jta.org | Jackie Hajdenberg

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Kelly Chervin’s book club doesn’t usually discuss what it means to be Jewish. But over a candlelit dinner last week in the basement of Balaboosta, an Israeli restaurant in the West Village, a dozen Lit Club attendees explored themes of Jewish identity, memory, diaspora and history. The conversation was wide-ranging and highly personal, even though many of the participants had just met for the first time.
Kyra Sedgwick dishes on her very Jewish, very New York role in the new film ‘Bad Shabbos’ - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

2 weeks ago | jta.org | Lior Zaltzman

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Looking for a fun way to celebrate the unofficial beginning of summer? A howlingly funny film about a Jewish family opens in New York City on Friday. Directed by Daniel Robbins, “Bad Shabbos” takes place entirely over the course of one Friday evening, as a Jewish family gathers for a Shabbat meal at their parents’ Upper West Side apartment.
White House revokes Harvard's right to enroll international students, including Jews from abroad

2 weeks ago | jta.org | Andrew Lapin

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Trump administration has revoked its permission for Harvard University to enroll international students, in a dramatic escalation of what the Department of Homeland Security says is an effort to curb antisemitism at the university. The move “means Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status,” a Thursday DHS press release states.
Capital Jewish Museum attacker shot victims in the back, authorities say as he is charged with murder

2 weeks ago | jta.org | Philissa Cramer

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Elias Rodriguez, the Chicago man charged with killing two Israeli embassy employees outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, shot his victims multiple times, including firing at one repeatedly as she attempted to crawl away, according to an FBI agent’s account of the incident.
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim identified as victims in Capital Jewish Museum shooting

2 weeks ago | jta.org | Philissa Cramer

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The two Israeli embassy staffers who were shot to death outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night have been identified as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim. “Yaron and Sarah were our friends and colleagues. They were in the prime of their lives,” the Embassy of Israel in the United States posted on social media. “The entire embassy staff is heartbroken and devastated by their murder.