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(JTA) — The ice menorah of Tomsk has become something of a Hanukkah tradition in that Russian city in Siberia, situated about 2,000 miles east of Moscow. At 10 feet tall and featuring LED lights...

(JTA) — Jacob Kamaras got the San Diego Jewish World for an absolute steal — $1, to be exact. The journalist and public relations executive bought the publication for that ceremonial price from its previous...

(JTA) — At 95, Mel Brooks is finally ready to speak his truth: A deli without Cel-Ray is no deli at all. The comedy icon and EGOT winner whose movies, musicals and stage acts defined...

(JTA) — Éric Zemmour, a French-Jewish writer and former television commentator who captured the attention of a large swath of right-wing French voters for months without launching a political campaign, has officially announced that he...

(JTA) — Fox Nation host Lara Logan compared Anthony Fauci, the top official handling the U.S. coronavirus response, to Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who conducted experiments on inmates at the Auschwitz death camp. Logan...

(JTA) — When Seattle-based playwright and theater director Lauren Goldman Marshall first staged her original musical about the Israel-Palestinian conflict in 1991, she had recently embarked on a journey of self-discovery prompted by the First...

(JTA) — Boris Johnson wasn’t trying to be funny when he broke the menorah he had received mere seconds before, but it certainly gave Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid a laugh. Want the news in...

(JTA) — In a small town in Poland, a local ice cream maker is serving up an unusual side dish: a gallery of items once owned by local Jews, including the family that lived in...

(JTA) — On Monday night, a Chabad house in Austin, Texas organized a Hanukkah menorah lighting in an unusual place: on a highway overpass looking out over the busy MoPac Expressway. They didn’t just pick...

(JTA) — Stephen Colbert gave Jewish viewers of the Late Show a special Hanukkah gift Monday night: a bit about the glut of Christmas movies and the lack of Hanukkah films. Get more stories like...