Why some American Jews pay more than $20,000 to get buried in Israel
by Josefin Dolsten NEW YORK (JTA) — Within hours of his mother’s funeral, Rabbi Abba Cohen was driving from Baltimore to New York’s John F….
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AIPAC and J Street support bipartisan effort to restore funds for Israeli-Palestinian peace dialogue
by Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — An array of pro-Israel groups are backing a bipartisan bill that would seed investment in the Palestinian areas and…
Palestinians officially reject economic summit
by Marcy Oster JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization made it official: They will not be attending the Trump administration’s…
Opinion: What Jewish law really says about abortion
by Ephraim Sherman (JTA) – Alabama and Georgia have passed laws recently that limit or forbid abortions in unprecedented ways, joining a growing number of states that…
Who are the Sacklers, the family at the center of the opioid crisis?
by Ben Sales NEW YORK (JTA) — In the 1930s, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler both traveled to Scotland for medical school because, they said, American…