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This Michel Kichka cartoon casts President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the new sheriffs in town.
Michel Kichka, who says he belongs to Israel’s “moderate left,” started drawing political cartoons with the backdrop of the first intifada and the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
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Drag queen performer Jenayah De Rosario will be featured at a havdalah ceremony at the Lander Grinspoon Academy in Northampton, Mass. (JTA Collage/De Rosario photo: Courtesy of De Rosario; havdalah items photo: Wikimedia Commons)
The school, together with local Jewish organizations, is hosting a Jewish version of Drag Queen Story Hour, a national program in which drag entertainers read stories to children. The goal of the program, launched in San Francisco in 2015, is to give kids “glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models.”
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Armie Hammer, left, and Timothee Chalamet play two young men who grapple with their attraction to each other in the film “Call Me By Your Name.” (Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
In addition to the themes of sexuality, love and belonging, the film also deals with religion. Elio and Oliver are Jewish and speak about what their religious identities mean to them and how they differ from each other.
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Evangelical pilgrims praying on the Dead Sea shore in Ein Gedi, Israel, Sept. 20, 2013. (Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)
“Older American evangelicals love Israel — but many younger evangelicals simply don’t care,” reads the summary of the study released last month by the Nashville-based evangelical research firm LifeWay Research.
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Lorde performing during the iHeartRadio Secret Sessions by AT&T at the magical Houdini Estate in Los Angeles, California, Aug. 29, 2017. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Here’s a look at how some prominent musicians dealt with the decision to perform in Israel in 2017.
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This year's heartwarming moments include a girl who helped decorate a vandalized cemetery, a dog who saved two lives, and an unlikely friendship between a monkey and a chicken. (Lior Zaltzman)
Political turmoil, terror attacks and natural disasters around the world: 2017 had plenty of people feeling down, for good reason. But there were also notable moments of light.
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The historic Salt Lake Temple and the world headquarters of the Mormon church in Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 14, 2015. (George Frey/Getty Images)
Helen Radkey, a Salt Lake City-based independent researcher, said there are hundreds of examples of Jewish Holocaust victims being baptized in Mormon churches around the world since 2012.
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From a wave of bomb threats to JCCs and a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville and to Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, 2017 was not a quit year for Jews. (JTA collage)
As 2017 draws to a close, JTA looks back at some of the moments that had the most significance for Jews.
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Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. speaking at The New York Times’ New Work Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Feb. 29, 2016. (Kimberly White/Getty Images for New York Times)
A.G. Sulzberger is best known for heading a team that in 2014 put together a 96-page “innovation report” that meant to prod The Times into moving more rapidly in catching up with the new digital media landscape
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In 1928, three Polish boys murdered a Jewish child because they believed all Jews received Chanukah money from their parents. (Lior Zaltzman)
In celebration of the Festival of Lights, the JTA has collected five of the most unusual Chanukah stories from its archive.
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Rose Holm at her apartment holding a photo of her late husband, Joe, Oct. 31, 2017. (Josefin Dolsten)
“The first time was very hard, but when you’re hungry you don’t ask questions,” Rose Holm, whose religious family had observed Jewish dietary laws, said of eating pork.
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