US yeshiva student among 5 dead in Palestinian terror attacks

Teaming up, Welch’s and Manischewitz challenge kosher grape juice monopoly 

For decades, America’s kosher grape juice market has been dominated by Kedem. Read more »

In Paris, an Israeli-like resilience in the face of horror

In the wake of violent attacks, JTA reporter Cnaan Liphshiz is surprised to find a largely unfazed, Tel Aviv-like attitude in the City of Light. Read more »

WATCH: Recalling Holocaust, Jewish congressman slams bias against Syrian refugees

N.Y. Rep. Eliot Engel, watching the flight of Syrian refugees, recalled the famous World War II story of the St. Louis ocean liner. Read more »

Breaking News

Pollard will need US gov’t permission to travel for as long as 5 years

Member of prominent Hasidic family comes out as transgender 

Dutch university students create Nazi death camp dorm room 

Effigy of haredi Jew burned at Polish protest against refugees 

Kasich would create department of Judeo-Christian values as president

FROM THE JTA ARCHIVE: 2003

Reform movement accepts transgender rabbinical student 

Reuben Zellman was believed to be the first transgender rabbinical candidate. Read more »

What We’re Reading

Comparing Jewish refugees of the 1930s with Syrians today (N.Y. Times) 

The US turned away thousands of Jewish refugees, fearing they were Nazi spies (Smithsonian Magazine) 

Adam Sandler, Jewish pride and the price of ‘cool’ (NJ Jewish News)

Israeli artist recalls legendary Holocaust victim who saved his life (AP) 

Remembering pioneer transgender Jew May Peleg-Friedman (Keshet)

BULLETIN BOARD

Five Emerging Jewish Educators Receive 2015 Pomegranate Prize for Exceptionalism and Promise

Five innovative emerging Jewish educators, hailing from educational institutions across the country, are the 2015 recipients of The Covenant Foundation’s Pomegranate Prize. Read more »

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