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Josefin Dolsten
Student organizers of an Israel Independence Day event at New York University, April 19, 2018. They include Adela Cojab, Jenny Labovitz and Esther Bildirici, front row, left to right, and Gabe Hoffman, back row, right. (Josefin Dolsten)
April 24, 2018, 2:01 am
What it’s like to support Israel at NYU
Pro-Israel students say an atmosphere of 'animosity' following a BDS resolution signed last week has largely failed to take hold at the downtown Manhattan campus
By Josefin Dolsten
Mordechai Schachter at his home in Teaneck, New Jersey. (Josefin Dolsten/JTA)
April 19, 2018, 3:59 am
A Holocaust survivor recalls fighting in Israel’s War of Independence
As Israel turns 70, New Jersey-resident Mordechai Schachter details his flight from Romania to the Holy Land and how he was drafted to be an artillery commander in the nascent IDF
By Josefin Dolsten
Rabbinical students at Hebrew College near Boston, including Gita Karasov, left, are creating a video that shows women, transgender and non-binary Jews demonstrating how to wear tefillin. (Dena Trugman/via JTA)
April 15, 2018, 5:01 am
Women and transgender Jews to shoot explainer video on how to lay tefillin
Geared towards the non-Orthodox who want to wrap phylacteries, 'All Genders Wrap' will include a diverse group of various ages, ethnicities, and racial backgrounds
By Josefin Dolsten
New York University campus (Cincin12/Wikimedia Commons)
April 13, 2018, 11:32 pm
51 NYU student groups pledge to boycott Israel and its backers
Head of Jewish organization says resolution shows climate of 'animosity' at university towards Jewish state
By Josefin Dolsten
In this Tuesday, April 3, 2018 photo, an African migrant sleeps in a street in southern Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
April 6, 2018, 1:00 am
Israelis want solution for African asylum seekers, though few want them to stay
Pollster estimates 70% of public rejects granting residency to the 40,000 migrants; especially opposed are residents of south Tel Aviv and religious Zionists, for different reasons
By Josefin Dolsten
An American Airlines jet taxis at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago (Scott Olson/Getty Images via JTA)
March 31, 2018, 1:39 pm
Flight cancellation sends family on mad dash to reach their seder on time
The Fishers had to get creative when American Airlines notified them that their flight from New York to Miami had been nixed
By Ben Sales and Josefin Dolsten
Steven Spielberg attends the Premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures' "Ready Player One" at Dolby Theatre on March 26, 2018 in Hollywood, California. ( Neilson Barnard/Getty Images/AFP)
March 28, 2018, 5:44 am
Want a SpielBurger? Carl’s Jr. chain named a burger after Steven Spielberg
'Spielberg hasn’t signed off yet, but we assume he’s cool with it,' the chain says
By Josefin Dolsten
Tripoli's Corinthia Hotel appears behind the abandoned Dar Bishi synagogue in the Libyan capital on September 28, 2011. ( JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
March 28, 2018, 1:50 am
US to allow import of some Jewish-Libyan artifacts despite new restrictions
Move prevents Libya from claiming objects, such as antique Torah scrolls, tombstones and books, taken from Libyan Jews who were forced out the country
By Josefin Dolsten
Unidentified medical personnel from Hadassah Medical Center in Israel and the Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital in Mekelle, Ethiopia, confer during a Hadassah team’s mission in Ethiopia to perform spinal surgeries on young patients, March 2018. (Courtesy of Hadassah via JTA)
March 27, 2018, 5:55 am
Israeli doctors perform lifesaving spinal surgeries in Ethiopia
Surgeon says some cases 'were so bad that if we wouldn’t have operated... at least half of them would be dead by next year'
By Josefin Dolsten
Avi Pashnov, 2017. (Courtesy of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design via JTA)
March 27, 2018, 3:53 am
5 works by Israeli artists that reinvent the seder plate
Drawing inspiration from Jerusalem, nature, former students at Israel’s Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design redesign traditional platter
By Josefin Dolsten
Marchers with the National Council of Jewish Women and other Jewish organizations assembled on the National Mall for the Women’s March on January 21, 2017. (Ron Sachs via JTA)
March 23, 2018, 8:25 am
Progressive Jews say they won’t give up on the Women’s March
While complaining that march leaders haven't distanced themselves enough from anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, Jewish activists say there is still time for movement 'to address this'
By Josefin Dolsten
An illustrative photo of children at summer camp. (kali9/Getty Images)
March 20, 2018, 6:55 am
Jewish summer camp group launches initiative to prevent sexual harassment
The Foundation for Jewish Camp invests initial $100,000 to help ensure abuse at community youth programs 'becomes a thing of the past'
By Josefin Dolsten
Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman signaling directions to a European Space Agency astronaut, December 1993. (NASA/Wikimedia Commons public domain via JTA)
March 16, 2018, 11:48 pm
The first Torah reading in orbit, and 5 other soaring facts about Jews in space
NY museum's new exhibit, 'Members of the Tribe in Orbit,' looks at Judaism's history with the heavens through Yiddish horoscopes, Jewish astronauts
By Josefin Dolsten
Students at the Golda Och Academy in West Orange, New Jersey, taking part in a walkout in honor of the victims of the Parkland, Florida school shooting, March 14, 2018. (Courtesy of Golda Och Academy)
March 15, 2018, 4:31 am
US Jewish day schools join nationwide gun-control walkout
Students hold memorial services, urge action and vow to keep up campaign following school shooting in Parkland, Florida; NY school skips action because of link to Women's March
By Josefin Dolsten
An illustrative photo of a physician speaking to a patient. (AJ Watt/Getty Images via JTA)
March 14, 2018, 2:48 am
New study on cancer risk in Ashkenazi Jews aims to be model for genetic testing
Public urged to sign up online for checks in four US cities, get results on genetic mutation directly from doctor, in innovative process researcher says is sure to save lives
By Josefin Dolsten
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