Новости за 24.12.2021

Chicago-based Niagara Foundation's assets were frozen because of links with the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused by Turkey of staging a coup attempt in 2016.

Two homes are being demolished, but the Homesh yeshiva is still standing.

Physicians from three religious backgrounds came together to wish little Hannah, brought to Israel from Myanmar by Save a Child's Heart, a “Merry Christmas.”

The Madrasa project promotes Arabic learning through a platform that includes free online courses, extensive activity through digital channels, and many different collaborations.

Soldiers stopped fighting on multiple battlefields on Christmas Eve in an improvised truce that lasted the whole of Christmas.

"The results of the survey illustrate what we knew about the attitude of the Ukrainian public towards Israel," said Michael Brodsky, Israel's ambassador to Ukraine.

Rabbi Michael Cook resigned from the CCAR to avoid investigation into abuse claims against him.

Miriam Cahn expressed concerns that the Zurich Art Museum took advantage of Jews around the Holocaust.

CJN’s publisher, the Cleveland Jewish Publication Company, announced Dec. 21 its plans to begin serving the Jewish population of Akron, Ohio.

Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” which is seeing a theatrical release on Christmas, is the first truly solo Coen film now that the two have split after over thirty years of collaboration.

Shurat Hadin will help Holocaust survivors to stake claims to insurance policies they had during the time of the Holocaust.

Iran produces 90% of the world's saffron, the world's most expensive spice — Which New Hope MK Zvi Hauser is concerned is used to finance terrorism and Iran.

Below, you can find the greatest hits of JTA’s 2021 Jewish pop-culture coverage.

While doctors and government officials are working hard to develop treatments for those who’ve caught COVID-19, people turn to what they know to relieve symptoms: chicken soup.

Israeli girl Yaeli Amir’s secular Jewish parents embrace Christmas, not for religious reasons but as an occasion for celebration. The same holds for Halloween.

Dog adoption rates decreased by 38% in 2021 from the previous year.

Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, was one of the countries the Trump administration tried to bring into the Abraham Accords fold.