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Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and Bahrainian Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani hold a meeting within "Negev Summit" Kibbutz Sde Boker in the Negev desert region in southern Israel, Mar. 28, 2022. (Israeli Foreign Ministry/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
March 30, 2022, 7:25 pm
Summit to become regular event for Israeli and Arab parties to the Abraham Accords
By Shira Hanau / JTA
A view of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, Jan. 17, 2022. (Emil Lippe/Getty Images)
February 23, 2022, 2:06 pm
Antisemitic flyers distributed in Colleyville, Texas
Town was site of recent synagogue hostage crisis
By Shira Hanau / JTA
Jared Armstrong, center, appealed the Israeli Interior Ministry's denial of his application for Israeli citizenship but his appeal was denied Wednesday. (Courtesy Armstrong)
February 15, 2022, 7:37 pm
Israel denies citizenship to ball player who converted with a Conservative rabbi
By Shira Hanau / JTA
Eric Lander, a renowned geneticist, was nominated in Jan. 2021 to lead the Office of Science and Technology Policy. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
February 9, 2022, 3:40 pm
White House science advisor who was sworn in on Pirkei Avot steps down
Review finds he mistreated staff
By Shira Hanau / JTA
A video of Israeli men at the Western Wall singing and dancing as they watched a fire burn outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque has gone viral during the conflict. (Screen shot)
May 12, 2021, 3:58 pm
TikTok and Twitter videos bring images of Israel-Gaza conflict home
By Shira Hanau / JTA
Jordan Burnette, the suspect in a series of synagogue attacks in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, is being charged with burglary as a hate crime. (Screenshot from WCBS-2)
May 5, 2021, 4:15 pm
Release of suspect in Bronx synagogue attacks reignites debate over bail reform
By Shira Hanau / JTA
Camp Modin in Maine was one of the few Jewish camps to open last year. It plans to follow the same playbook this year. (Courtesy of Howard Salzberg)
April 21, 2021, 6:36 pm
What Jewish summer camp will look like this year
By Shira Hanau / JTA
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo talks to reporters in Albany at his daily news conference about the coronavirus crisis, March 29, 2020. (Office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo)
April 14, 2021, 4:16 pm
‘These people and their f***ing tree houses’
New York Times reports that Andrew Cuomo chafed at campaigning on Sukkot
By Shira Hanau / JTA
Kosher Palate in Dallas originally decided to follow the governor's lead, ending its requirement that customers be masked, before backtracking amid customer complaints. (Montinique Monroe/Getty Images)
March 10, 2021, 7:43 pm
One Dallas kosher grocer removed the mask requirement. Then came the backlash
By Shira Hanau / JTA
People congregate outside of Congregation Yetev Lev D'Satmar in Brooklyn, where state officials halted a planned 10,000-person wedding in October 2020. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
March 10, 2021, 7:28 pm
Results are in from covid study that involved thousands of Orthodox Jews
By Shira Hanau / JTA
Eric Wietschner and Anna Greenblatt, in Dubai
November 12, 2020, 4:36 pm
Teaneck woman gets United Arab Emirate proposal
Jason Greenblatt’s daughter Anna gets engaged in Dubai
By Shira Hanau / JTA
Mayer Rispler, center, a leader in the Satmar Hasidic community, at a meeting in 2017. (Twitter)
September 30, 2020, 6:24 pm
Major Satmar Hasidic leader critically ill with Covid-19
By Shira Hanau / JTA
Kindergartners at the Moriah School in Englewood, N.J., one of seven Bergen County schools to urge families to abide by school guidelines outside of school. (Courtesy of the Moriah School)
September 17, 2020, 7:12 pm
Jewish schools unite to exhort families to play it safe
Eyeing Rosh Hashanah as a virus tipping point, New Jersey schools sign national letter
By Shira Hanau / JTA
Ice Cube, shown in 2015, acknowledged his conversation with Jewish leader Mort Klein in a tweet in which he said "I admire him for the advocacy of his people." (Michael Buckner/Getty Images for CinemaCon)
July 29, 2020, 3:35 pm
‘He told me to call him Cube’
ZOA chief Mort Klein details his talk with Ice Cube after Farrakhan tweets
By Shira Hanau / JTA
Brett Lockspeiser, a co-founder of Sefaria, hopes to apply the database's approach highlighting the interconnections between texts to other bodies of knowledge. (Screenshots from Sefaria)
July 15, 2020, 4:43 pm
After digitizing the Talmud, Sefaria seeks to do the same to democracy
By Shira Hanau / JTA
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