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Breaking News
  • 1 The Wizard of Oz, Youth Edition
  • 2 Rabbi Solomon T. Greenberg dies at 87 
  • 3 Lifeguard classes now in session
  • 4 One night only: an evening of song with Simon Barrad & Rachel Kobernick
  • 5 You’re Invited: AJC Cincinnati to Host University President Dr. Ora Pescovitz
  • 6 Adath Israel Sisterhood Honors Lisa Kadosh
  • 7 Own Your Voice: Empowerment & Self Defense for Families
  • 8 Food For Thought Book & Film Club
  • 9 Ohio AG sues HUC to block closure of Reform seminary, new rabbinical school emerges
  • 10 Yom HaShoah commemoration calls community to remember — and to speak 
  • Featured
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The Wizard of Oz, Youth Edition

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  • May 7, 2026
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Rabbi Solomon T. Greenberg dies at 87 

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  • May 7, 2026
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Lifeguard classes now in session

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  • May 7, 2026
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One night only: an evening of song with Simon Barrad & Rachel Kobernick

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  • May 7, 2026
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Local

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The Wizard of Oz, Youth Edition

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  • May 7, 2026
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  • Featured
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Rabbi Solomon T. Greenberg dies at 87 

  • AI Staff
  • May 7, 2026
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  • Featured
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Lifeguard classes now in session

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  • May 7, 2026
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  • Featured
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One night only: an evening of song with Simon Barrad & Rachel Kobernick

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  • May 7, 2026
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You’re Invited: AJC Cincinnati to Host University President Dr. Ora Pescovitz

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  • April 30, 2026
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  • Featured
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Adath Israel Sisterhood Honors Lisa Kadosh

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  • April 30, 2026
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  • Featured
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Own Your Voice: Empowerment & Self Defense for Families

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  • April 30, 2026
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  • Featured
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Food For Thought Book & Film Club

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  • April 30, 2026
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National

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U of Michigan apologizes after faculty chair praises pro-Palestinian students during commencement speech

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  • May 7, 2026
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‘Sesame Street’ post celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month draws support, backlash

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  • May 7, 2026
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Trump signs bill into law funding most of DHS, ending 76-day partial shutdown

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  • May 7, 2026
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Graham Platner, who opposes Israel and had a Nazi tattoo, set to be Maine’s Democratic Senate candidate

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  • May 7, 2026
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  • National

‘Thought it was end of my life,’ says Jewish man attacked near Los Angeles synagogue

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  • May 7, 2026
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NH lawmaker reprimanded for ‘final solution’ joke aimed at Jewish colleague

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  • May 7, 2026
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  • National

Mamdani shares video of keffiyeh-clad door knocker, raising questions, hackles of Jewish New Yorkers

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  • May 7, 2026
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National Briefs: May 7

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  • May 7, 2026
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International

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Trump confirms Iran ceasefire holds despite naval skirmish

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  • May 14, 2026
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Iran launches third missile attack on UAE this week

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  • May 14, 2026
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  • International

Brussels cathedral installs plaques apologizing for medieval antisemitic persecution depicted in stained glass

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  • May 14, 2026
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  • International

Man charged for two Toronto-area synagogue shootings

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  • May 14, 2026
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  • International

Turkey unveils high-speed ballistic missile with 6,000-km range

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  • May 14, 2026
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International Briefs: May 14

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  • May 14, 2026
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Jewish man arrested for allegedly firing pellet gun at left-wing activists in Rome

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  • May 7, 2026
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Venice Biennale jury resigns after clash over Israel, Russia

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  • May 7, 2026
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Israel

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Herzog pays historic first presidential visit to Panama

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  • May 14, 2026
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Israeli man indicted in attack on Catholic nun in Jerusalem’s Old City

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  • May 14, 2026
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Israel High Court freezes media regulator shake-up over new appointments

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  • May 14, 2026
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Georgetown Law graduation speaker backs out after students protest his ‘controversial, Zionist and harmful opinions’

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  • May 14, 2026
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  • Israel

Israeli researchers detect industrial contaminants in Mediterranean sharks

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  • May 14, 2026
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Israel Briefs: May 14

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  • May 14, 2026
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US embassy in Beirut urges direct Lebanon-Israel talks, cites ‘historic opportunity’

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  • May 7, 2026
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  • Israel

Seismic shift in Israeli politics as opposition leaders Lapid and Bennett form joint party

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  • May 7, 2026
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Columnists

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  • Dining Out

Orange hits the Spot 

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  • May 14, 2026
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  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Today in Israeli History

Today in Israeli History: May 15 – May 21

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  • May 14, 2026
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  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Bad Joke of the Week

Bad Joke of the Week: The headstone

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  • May 14, 2026
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  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Jews in the News

Jews in the News: In the Grey, Magic Hour, Bette Midler, Kosher Govs

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  • May 14, 2026
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  • Arts & Entertainment
  • From the Pages

From the Pages: May 14, 2026

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  • May 14, 2026
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  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Book Review

Not Just a Kids Story Anymore

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  • May 7, 2026
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  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Living and Learning

Self-exploration & getting to know you

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  • May 7, 2026
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  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Columnists
  • Parenting Plus

May means Mother’s Day

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  • May 7, 2026
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Judaism

  • Sedra

Parshat Bamidbar — Numbers 1:1–4:20

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  • May 14, 2026
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  • Sedra

Parshat Behar-Behukotai — Leviticus 25:1–27:34

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  • May 7, 2026
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  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Sedra

Parshat Emor — Leviticus 21:1–24:23

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  • April 30, 2026
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  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Sedra

Parshat Acharei Mot – Kedoshim — Leviticus 16:1–18:30

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  • April 23, 2026
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  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Sedra

Parshat Tazriya Metzora — Leviticus 12:1-15:33

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  • April 16, 2026
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  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Sedra

Parshat Shemini — Leviticus 9:1–11:47

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  • April 9, 2026
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  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Sedra

Pesach

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  • April 2, 2026
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  • Arts & Entertainment
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Parshat Tzav-Shabbat Hagadol — Leviticus 6:1 – 8:36

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  • March 26, 2026
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Obituaries

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The ‘godfather of denim’ was an Italian designer whose Jewish father was murdered at Auschwitz

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  • May 7, 2026
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  • Obituaries

Matan Koch, disability advocate who urged Jewish communities to ‘let everyone in,’ dies at 44

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  • April 30, 2026
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  • Obituaries

Rabbi Eliezer Diamond, beloved Jewish Theological Seminary professor and author, dies at 73

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  • April 23, 2026
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  • Obituaries

Eliot Engel, longtime NY congressman whose defeat augured a swell of anti-Israel sentiment, dies at 79

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  • April 16, 2026
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  • Obituaries

Remembering Sean Bartel

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  • April 9, 2026
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  • Obituaries

Marshall Weinberg, 95: The JTA president who didn’t know what a blog was — but knew right from wrong

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  • April 2, 2026
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  • Obituaries

Elaine Grossinger Etess, third-generation owner of legendary Catskills resort, dies at 98

  • AI Staff
  • March 26, 2026
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  • Obituaries

Andrea Weiss, trailblazing Reform rabbi who merged scholarship and activism, dies at 60

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  • March 19, 2026
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E Editions

Open Book

May 7, 2026

April 30, 2026

April 23, 2026

At a Glance

Art from prominent Swiss collection likely plundered from Jews

Art from prominent Swiss collection likely plundered from Jews

  • July 11, 2024

Courtesy of JNS. Photo credit: Albinfo via Wikimedia CommonsThe Kunsthaus Zürich art museum’s annex building, […]

Keir Starmer, who prioritized fighting antisemitism in Labour Party, becomes Britain’s PM after landslide win

Keir Starmer, who prioritized fighting antisemitism in Labour Party, becomes Britain’s PM after landslide win

  • July 11, 2024

Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Images via Getty ImagesLabour Party leader Keir Starmer […]

Israel’s chief rabbis leave their posts as term ends with no election set 

Israel’s chief rabbis leave their posts as term ends with no election set 

  • July 11, 2024

Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, right, and Ashkenazi Chief […]

Israel and Hamas mulling latest hostage deal as unrest roils region

Israel and Hamas mulling latest hostage deal as unrest roils region

  • July 11, 2024

Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: David Cohen/Flash90Police and rescue forces outside the scene of a […]

30 Israeli orphans, including Oct. 7 victims, heal in Mexico

30 Israeli orphans, including Oct. 7 victims, heal in Mexico

  • July 11, 2024

Courtesy of JNS. Photo credit: Yakir AsarafIsraelis who lost both parents on Oct. 7 find […]

Jewish Agency project to strengthen Gaza border towns

Jewish Agency project to strengthen Gaza border towns

  • July 11, 2024

Courtesy of JNS. Photo credit: CourtesyNikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and […]

Defense Ministry okays religious phrases on military graves

Defense Ministry okays religious phrases on military graves

  • July 11, 2024

Courtesy of JNS. Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90An IDF soldier participates in the annual ceremony, ahead […]

Israeli envoy in NY: West at risk of ‘radical Muslim occupation’

Israeli envoy in NY: West at risk of ‘radical Muslim occupation’

  • July 11, 2024

Courtesy of JNS. Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Science and Technology Minister […]

Letter to the Editor: July 11, 2024

Letter to the Editor: July 11, 2024

  • July 11, 2024

Dear Editor, “Then they came for me…” One hundred years ago, on June 29, 1924, […]

The Reform movement’s decision to admit intermarried rabbis is good. Truly welcoming them would be great.

The Reform movement’s decision to admit intermarried rabbis is good. Truly welcoming them would be great.

  • July 11, 2024

By Edmud C. Case (JTA) — I’ve been advocating for 15 years for Hebrew Union […]

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