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Graduates celebrate at a commencement ceremony at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, which is fielding a growing number of inquiries from Americans interested in enrolling at the university in Beersheva. (Courtesy of BGU via JTA)
A growing number of Jewish high school students are considering options in Israel for college.
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Frozen Chosen: A Wisconsin native, Paul Cohen is believed to be currently the only Jewish inhabitant of Greenland. (Photo by Dan Fellner, courtesy of JTA)
A look at the secret Jewish history of the Arctic island in the North Atlantic that’s now at the center of the world’s attention.
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At the archives of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum, the front page of the original issue of the Nazi family magazine Sonnie ins Hous (Sunshine in the House) shows baby Hessy Taft as the ideal German Aryan baby. (GALI TIBBON/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)
Hessy Levinsons Taft recently passed away at age 91.
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A portrait of 10-year-old Matilda, the youngest victim of the Bondi Beach shooting, sits on a flower memorial beside Bondi Pavilion inAustralia. (James D. Morgan/Getty Images, via JTA)
The daughter of Ukrainian immigrants, Matilda, 10, was filmed watching her father put on tefillin shortly before the terrorist attack.
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Boris Gurman, at left, was captured on dashcam footage confronting the Bondi Beach Hanukkah shooters before being killed. (Screenshot via JTA)
Boris Gurman was killed, as was his wife of 34 years, Sofia.
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Video footage shows a bystander, identified as Ahmed al-Ahmed, tackling a shooter during the Bondi Beach Chanukah attack on Dec. 14. (Screenshot)
At least 16 people were killed during the attack on a Chanukah celebration in Australia on Sunday night, with dozens of others injured.
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New footage released by the IDF shows the six hostages killed by Hamas in August of 2024 celebrating Chanukah. (Screenshot by JTA)
The footage was recovered by the IDF about three months ago during a raid on a hospital in Khan Younis.
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The "Errands Day" event in Tel Aviv was organized by the Friends of the IDF-Nefesh B’Nefesh Lone Soldiers Program in partnership with the Mofet Unit of the IDF Manpower Directorate and the Association for Israel’s Soldiers. (Bar Bino, provided by JTA)
Over 4,000 Israeli Lone Soldiers hailing from 70 countries recently attended a unique “Errands Day” event in Tel Aviv.
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Participants in the Nativ pre-college gap year program, which is affiliated with the Conservative movement, historically divided their time between study in Jerusalem and volunteering elsewhere in Israel. (Courtesy of Nativ)
The Conservative movement is relaunching its Israel gap-year program in 2026, after shuttering operations over a year-and-a-half ago.
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The Yigal Alon school in Ramle, one of just a few mixed Arab-Jewish schools in Israel, offers a rare and tangible model for how to bolster coexistence in Israel. (Courtesy of Amal via JTA)
The Yigal Alon school in Ramle, one of just a few mixed Arab-Jewish schools in Israel, offers a model for how to bolster coexistence in Israel.
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A settler wearing a soldier's uniform aims his rifle at Jews and Palestinians participating in an olive harvest in the West Bank on Nov. 4. (Courtesy of Rabbi Sarah Reines via JTA)
Three decades after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, Israel still reels from unchecked violence and extremism, writes Rabbi Sarah Reines.
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