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ared and Ivanka Kushner and their children, Arabella Rose, Joseph Frederick and Theodore James. Source: Instagram.

Trump’s granddaughter celebrates her bat mitzvah

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s granddaughter celebrated her bat mitzvah over the weekend, her mother announced on Tuesday. Arabella Rose Kushner, the eldest child of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, marked her bat mitzvah—the coming-of-age...
An Azerbaijani Jewish dance group at the Khari Bulbul Music Festival in Shusha, May 12, 2021. Credit: President.az via Wikimedia Commons.

Times are good for Azerbaijan’s 30,000 Jews

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“The Jewish community in Azerbaijan dates back to antiquity. Every group in Azerbaijan has its own synagogue, Rabbi Zamir Isayev, the chairman of the Georgian-Jewish community of Azerbaijan, told JNS in an exclusive interview last...
Publicity photo of singer/actor Ed Ames from the NBC television program “Daniel Boone.” Credit: Wikipedia. | Wikipedia

‘He was an ardent, farbrente Zionist,’ Mort Klein says of Ed Ames

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Some 15 or 20 years ago, Mort Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, saw a man who looked a lot like entertainer Ed Ames at an American Israel Public Affairs Committee...

EXCLUSIVE Jonathan Pollard tells all

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In this week's “Wine with Adam,” host and CEO of Israel Innovation Fund Adam Scott Bellos is joined by ex-spy Jonathan Pollard in an exclusive tell-all interview.
Portrait of former Supreme Court Justice, Jacob Turkel, at his home in Jerusalem, on Jan. 25, 2023. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Jacob Turkel dies

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Former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Jacob Turkel died on Monday at the age of 88. Born in 1935 in Tel Aviv to Austrian immigrants. He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s law school in...
Photo of Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra by Napoléon Sarony (1891). Credit: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, ©RMN-Grand Palais/Hervé Lewandowski.

Sarah Bernhardt still ‘immortal’ 100 years after her death

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Carol Ockman, art history professor emerita at Williams College, wrote her first book proposal in the 1990s, years before she knew she would co-curate an exhibit on the same topic at New York’s Jewish...
Madonna. Photo by Kevin Mazur/Flash90

Madonna due to visit Israel this week

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Kabbalah enthusiast Madonna is coming to Israel for the first time since taking the stage as an interval performer during the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv. The international pop star, who unofficially adopted the Hebrew name...
Israel's Noa Kirel at the Eurovision Song Contest final in Liverpool, May 13, 2023. Source: Twitter.

Israel’s Noa Kirel finishes third at Eurovision

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Israeli pop star Noa Kirel finished in third place at Saturday night’s Eurovision Song Contest final in Liverpool behind Sweden and Finland. The 22-year-old IDF veteran from the central Israeli city of Ra’anana was aiming to become the fifth...
Daniel and Tzerel Goldschmiedt arrive at Ben-Gurion International Airport in February 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

A 75-year-old makes ‘aliyah’ in time for Israel’s 75th anniversary year

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In a way, Daniel Goldschmiedt and the modern State of Israel have grown up together. They both recently turned 75. Their Jewish identity is central to their lives. And now that Daniel and his...
Camilla Maas of Rochester, N.Y., checks medical supplies on an Israel Defense Forces base as part of Sar-El, or the “Volunteers for Israel” program. Credit: Courtesy.

A 92-year-old makes military bases her first stop in Israel … 16 times

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Camilla Maas makes it clear that she doesn’t speak for Israelis. She doesn’t speak for American or international Jewry. The nonagenarian states plainly that she speaks for herself. And for Sar-El, which partners in the United...