The top 10 moments that mattered to Jews in 2017
By Josefin Dolsten (JTA) — The past year was not a quiet one, to say the least. From the tumultuous first year of Donald Trump’s…
International
op/ed: My Reform colleagues were wrong on Jerusalem
By Ammiel Hirsch (JTA) — We were wrong. As Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky pointed out, “The Reform response to the recognition of Jerusalem was…
In Budapest, Hanukkah comes out of the shadows and onto the ice rink
By Cnaan Liphshiz BUDAPEST (JTA) — The outdoor ice skating rink — the largest in Central Europe — in Budapest’s city center has been part…
Sufganiyot get all the hype. But this humble Moroccan doughnut is Israel’s Hanukkah staple.
By Andrew Tobin TEL AVIV (JTA) – The sufganiyah is the plump, shining star of Hanukkah in Israel. During the holiday season, the famed jelly doughnut poses…
What Israel and the Palestinians make of Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem
By Andrew Tobin JERUSALEM (JTA) – Amid the global controversy over President Donald Trump’s recognition last week of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish…