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Part of the exhibit.

Bridging Histories: New WJC exhibition celebrates Sephardi history, heritage and contributions

 Rabbi David Yosef.

Rabbi David Yosef chosen as Israel's Sephardic chief rabbi

 Victoria Falls, Livingstone, Zambia.

A railway museum in Zambia offers a clue to the African country’s rich Jewish history

By Harry D. Wall / JTA
 ASHKENAZI CHIEF Rabbi David Lau (left) and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef: The silence of our two chief rabbis is thunderously indicative of the abject state of these once meaningful and relevant positions, the writer argues.

The Chief Rabbinate office is rife with nepotism, affecting Israeli society

 Rabbi Meir Kahane, Religious Zionist candidate for Chief Rabbi poses for a picture in Jerusalem, on June 7, 2023. Uploaded on 28/5/2024

Position for Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi reopens as Rabbinical Committee withdraws candidate

By YAKI ADAMKER/WALLA!
 ‘FREE PALESTINE’ is displayed at a subway station entrance, outside of Columbia University in New York City, last week. Radicals, in many cases, have no concept of whether they are trying to liberate Palestine, Texas, or maybe East Palestine, Ohio, says the writer.

I’m a Jewish linguist, and I think ‘Ashkenormativity’ is a perfectly fine word

By SARAH BUNIN BENOR/JTA
 Israel's Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau attends a ceremony of the Israeli police for the Jewish new year at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem on September 5, 2021.

Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi hints criticism towards Sephardic counterpart on 'exodus' of haredi Jews

 The leadership of Shas. History has summoned them to their beautiful hour, but instead they turn it into our bad hour.

Amid the haredi draft debate, Shas is dragging Israel into its past traumas

By NIR KIPNISS
 An illustrative image of a synagogue.

Woman claims her wedding was invalid for being in a synagogue

 Center for Jewish History in New York City.

Murder victim was anonymous for 13 years - Jewish genealogists found her

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA
 MK DAVID AMSALEM addresses the Knesset plenum during a debate last month.

David Amsalem slams protesters, Ashkenazi Israelis in Knesset

 Children picking pomegranates in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Arnona.

Rosh Hashanah: Food traditions of the Jewish High Holy Days

By SYBIL KAPLAN
 ‘OUR PRESIDENT, Isaac Herzog, should encourage more of these dialogues. Sadly, most politicians prefer exploiting our differences to overcoming them,’ the writer argues.

Lack of diversity vs lack of human rights: Battle of Israeli blind spots - opinion

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looks on at a House Judiciary Select Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee hearing, examining the Missouri v. Biden case, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, July 20, 2023.

RFK's COVID claims mired in antisemitic conspiracy - opinion

By MICHAEL HILTZIK
Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri at a party meeting, in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 30, 2023.

Shas does not represent Moroccan Jewry, is Ashkenazi - former PMO official

  THE ISSUE under discussion this Passover, on the eve of the 75th anniversary of Israel, is how do we perceive the origin story of Zionism?

Israel’s future: A tale of two (or three) Zionisms - opinion

By Moti Kahana
 Patients with Alzheimer's and dementia are sit inside the Alzheimer foundation in Mexico City

Ashkenazi Jews are more likely to suffer from Alzheimer's, study finds

 Molly Ranson and Francis Benhamou star in “Prayer for the French Republic,” a new off-Broadway play at Manhattan Theatre Club.

Lorraine Hansberry’s second play revived by Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan

By GABE FRIEDMAN/JTA