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by JTA | 14 hours ago | Baltimore, Local, Maryland, National, News
(JTA) — Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will donate $1.8 billion to Johns Hopkins University, which he attended, to provide more financial aid to low-and middle-income students. It is reported to be the largest private donation to higher education, and... read more
by Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA | Nov 15, 2018 | Commentary, National, News
(JTA) — “Look who’s showing me the dirty pictures!” is the punchline to a great psychiatry joke about a patient who can’t stop thinking about sex. We at JTA don’t think everything is about the Jews, but there is a strong Jewish thread — really, three threads — in the... read more
by JTA | Nov 14, 2018 | National, News
By Gabrielle Birkner LOS ANGELES (JTA) — The Woolsey Fire, which began late last week and engulfed a massive swath of Southern California, has killed at least two people, burned nearly 100,000 acres and ravaged hundreds of structures — including several... read more
by Ben Sales, JTA | Nov 13, 2018 | National, News
NEW YORK (JTA) — After a mass shooting in a heavily Jewish area shocked the nation, Rabbi Yakov Saacks felt like his Long Island congregation was at risk. So the rabbi installed 17 cameras on the synagogue’s exterior that can zoom in to read numbers on license... read more
by JTA | Nov 13, 2018 | National, News
(JTA) — Stan Lee, who as one of the masterminds behind Marvel Comics created such mega-popular comic book franchises as Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk and the X-Men, died early Nov. 12 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 95. Born Stanley Martin... read more
by JTA | Nov 9, 2018 | National, National Politics, News, Politics
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from the hospital and is back at work a day after being admitted for broken ribs. “She is doing well and plans to work from home today,” Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg told the media on... read more
by Peter Arnold | Nov 9, 2018 | Baltimore, Elections, Local, Local Politics, Maryland, National, National Politics, News
When meeting with Jmore’s editorial board on Sept. 24, Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.) repeatedly expressed concerns about the potential for an autocracy in the United States if Republicans won both the House of Representatives and Senate in the midterm elections on Nov.... read more
by Ben Sales, JTA | Nov 7, 2018 | Elections, National, National Politics, News, Politics
(JTA) — More than 75 percent of Jews voted for Democrats on an Election Day that was also good to Jewish congressional candidates. A poll conducted by GBA Strategies, a Democrat-aligned pollster, and commissioned by the liberal Israel lobby J Street, found that 76... read more
by Josefin Dolsten, JTA | Nov 7, 2018 | Elections, National, National Politics, News, Politics
(JTA) — Nov. 6’s midterm elections were hailed as a victory for gender parity, as an unprecedented number of women won bids to serve in Congress. More than 100 women were elected to serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate, according to final vote... read more
by Ben Sales, JTA | Nov 7, 2018 | Elections, National, National Politics, News, Politics
(JTA) — In the final weeks of the midterm election campaign, Republicans in six states targeted their Democratic opponents with attacks many saw as echoing anti-Semitic tropes. The attacks — mostly involving pictures of Jewish candidates clutching money — were... read more
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