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Water Carrier: Rabbi Fights Southern California Fire with Love

It has been a long and smoky week in Southern California as firefighters valiantly battle the area’s largest-ever fire and residents race to safety. Read More »

Does Hizbollah have a 'Lebanese Madoff?'

Last week in Lebanon, a well-known Shiite businessman who was "close to Hizbollah" was arrested on suspicion of fraud, allegedly heading a Ponzi-styl Read More »

As Nazis Die Off, Justice Department Widens Net Beyond Holocaust

The subjects of their life's work -- people with Nazi ties who lied on citizenship forms to enter the United States after World War II -- are dead or Read More »

The Three Heroic Drug Smugglers

Gil Student points out the problems of saying how heroic the three arrested students were in Japan Read More »

Op-Ed: Russia should return the Schneersohn collection

The Schneersohn collection does not belong to Russia. It belongs to the Jews; specifically Chabad-Lubavitch. As the international community agreed in Read More »

Italian Jews training to work in Jewish media

ROME (JTA) -- Italy's Jewish community is running a first-of-its-kind seminar to train young journalists for work in the Italian Jewish media. Read More »

Florida Jews visit, aid Jewish brethren in Cuba

Cuba's Jewish community is small in numbers, but South Florida Jews are trying to help sustain the religion in the island nation. Read More »

Michael Jackson and the Jewish nose

Amid all the noisy outpouring over Michael Jackson's sudden death, the last place I expected to find him was in a Jewish museum. But there he was, hi Read More »

Beijing’s Jewish restaurants face demolition

Beijing's two neighboring Jewish restaurants are being forced to relocate by a city order demolishing their buildings. JTA's Alison Klayman reports Read More »

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What is Kavod?

Kavod is Hebrew for "honor." To give something kavod is to give it honor, respect, or 'props.' Read more »

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