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Josefin Dolsten JTA
Alexandra Straytner and Zachary Levine took the course with their dog, Jofi. (Photo by Josefin Dolsten)
October 12, 2018, 12:42 pm
Want to teach your dog Yiddish? There’s a class for that
In Central Park that weekend, about 20 people could be seen and heard pointing at the ground while yelling “zits” and “shtai” and urging their dogs to “shpring” over hurdles.
By Josefin Dolsten JTA
Etrogim can come with a hefty price tag, such as this one that retailed for $345 in Brooklyn. (Photo by David Moster)
September 27, 2018, 6:15 pm
How a Chinese fruit became a Sukkot symbol
it wasn’t until the Second Temple period that Jews started using the lemon-like etrog as part of their Sukkot celebrations.
By Josefin Dolsten JTA
September 27, 2018, 5:49 pm
An Afro-Cuban-Yiddish opera tells the story of a Jewish refugee
The play was inspired by the life of Asher Penn, who connected his experience of pogoms with that of an indigenous chief leading an uprising against Spanish colonial forces.
By Josefin Dolsten JTA
Elena Kagan, left, speaks with journalist Dahlia Lithwick at the Hannah Senesh Community Day School in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Photo by Matthew Sussman for Hannah Senesh Community Day School)
September 27, 2018, 5:42 pm
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan says she had ‘very strange Jewish upbringing’
Kagan said she loved attending Hebrew school but hit a snag when she realized her modern Orthodox synagogue had not allowed a girl to have a bat mitzvah ceremony.
By Josefin Dolsten JTA
South Korea is hosting the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
February 13, 2018, 1:13 pm
What it’s like to be Jewish in South Korea
“We feel blessed to be in such a country that there is admiration to Jews and especially to Israel,” one Chabad emissary said about living in South Korea.
By Josefin Dolsten JTA
Bari Weiss at her desk in The New York Times office in Midtown Manhattan. (Photo by Josefin Dolsten)
February 2, 2018, 2:37 pm
How NYT editor Bari Weiss found herself at the center of the #MeToo debate
Her willingness to defy the feminist consensus, both in her own writing and the articles she commissions, has earned her both praise and vilification.
By Josefin Dolsten JTA
A couple in Abidjan marry according to Jewish tradition. (Photo by Bonita Sussman)
February 2, 2018, 10:58 am
In this West African country, a Jewish community is forming
Last month, 48 people from the West African nation of Cote d'Ivoire converted to Judaism. The rabbis also performed Jewish weddings for six couples.
By Josefin Dolsten JTA
A water engineer performs a test as a member of the Israeli team sent to Zambia along with two physicians. (Photo courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)
January 23, 2018, 2:55 pm
Israeli hospital sends delegation to cholera-stricken Zambia
Four physicians, two nurses, one water engineer and one lab technician have arrived to help the 2,500 people who have been infected since September.
By Josefin Dolsten JTA
Evangelical pilgrims pray on the Dead Sea shore in Ein Gedi. (Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)
January 22, 2018, 5:17 pm
Support for Israel among young evangelicals is solid but slipping, says survey
Fifty-eight percent of millennials surveyed view the Jewish state positively, compared to 76 percent of those 65 or older.
By Josefin Dolsten JTA
The historic Salt Lake Temple and the world headquarters of the Mormon church in Salt Lake City. (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images)
January 15, 2018, 1:36 pm
Study finds Mormons baptizing Holocaust victims, Lubavitcher Rebbe, celebrities
The practice violates a 1995 agreement that members of the Mormon Church would only do posthumous baptisms on their own ancestors.
By Josefin Dolsten JTA
Ari Weiss performs at Camp Ramah Darom in Clayton, Ga. (Photo courtesy of Camp Ramah Darom)
January 11, 2018, 12:00 pm
Jewish families killed in Costa Rica crash remembered for social justice work
The Steinberg family of Scarsdale, in suburban New York, and the Weiss family of Belleair, Fla., were killed Dec. 31 in a plane crash in Cost Rica.
By Josefin Dolsten JTA
Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. speaking at The New York Times’ New Work Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Feb. 29, 2016. (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for New York Times)
December 19, 2017, 11:42 am
The Sulzberger family: A complicated Jewish legacy at The New York Times
The New York Times announced that its publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., is stepping down and will be succeeded by his son, Arthur Gregg (A.G.) Sulzberger.
By Josefin Dolsten JTA
Linda Sarsour speaks about anti-Semitism at a panel at the New School in New York. Other panelists, from left, include Lina Morales, Amy Goodman and Rebecca Vilkomerson. (Photo courtesy of Jewish Voice for Peace)
December 7, 2017, 1:15 pm
Linda Sarsour gets warm welcome at controversial panel on anti-Semitism
Billed as a discussion of anti-Semitism on the right and left, the panel was denounced by pro-Israel critics who have accused Sarsour and other panelists of anti-Semitism.
By Josefin Dolsten JTA
Members of USY celebrating at the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism’s 2015 convention. (Photo by Andrew Langdal)
November 28, 2017, 1:22 pm
Conservative movement launches hotline for reporting sexual impropriety
The decision was made in response to an allegation by former member of the youth movement that he was inappropriately touched by a staff member.
By Josefin Dolsten JTA
The UJA-Federation of New York works with the Afya Foundation and the Greater New York Hospital Association delivering supplies to Puerto Rico by private jets. (Photo by Josefin Dolsten)
November 22, 2017, 12:14 pm
This is what Puerto Rico looks like 50 days after Hurricane Maria
The local Jewish community, which numbers about 1,000 and whose members did better than most in the aftermath of Maria, has come together to give aid to other Puerto Ricans.
By Josefin Dolsten JTA
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