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Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem: the good, the bad and the unpredictable

Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem: the good, the bad and the unpredictable

President-elect Donald Trump wants to move the embassy from Tel Aviv — here's what could happen.

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Harold Bornstein, left, is Donald Trump's physician. (Facebook)

5 things we just learned about Donald Trump’s Jewish doctor

Tzipi Hotovely

Trump transition team member joins boycott of meeting with Israeli official

Mourners laying flowers and candles at a makeshift memorial near the site where two days before a man drove a heavy truck into a Christmas market in an apparent terrorist attack in Berlin, Dec. 21, 2016. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Berlin attack highlights divide over refugees in fractious German Jewish community

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United States

Josh Radnor

Josh Radnor, beyond ‘How I Met Your Mother’

The accomplished Jewish star talks about life after Ted Mosby and appearing in Richard Greenberg's off-Broadway play "The Babylon Line."

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Israel & Middle East

A christmas tree standing behind the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, Dec. 26, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israeli rabbis say Christmas trees not ‘kosher,’ raising questions of synagogue and state

'Tis the season, but some Israeli rabbis are not feeling the Christmas spirit.

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From the JTA Archives

Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem (David Shankbone/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)

Holocaust survivors reunite in Israel

Latkes have not always been made of potatoes. (Shutterstock)

Oh, it’s frying time again — but it doesn’t have to be

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Fighting Back from Adversity, Kirk Douglas Recalls ‘Stroke of Luck’

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World

Marion Pritchard receiving the Medal of Valor Award at the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Annual National Tribute Dinner at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., May 5, 2009.  (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Marion Pritchard, Dutch rescuer of Jews during Holocaust, dies at 96

Pritchard, who was said to have helped as many as 150 people, killed a policeman who discovered a Jewish family she was sheltering.

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7 Fried Chinese Food Recipes to Enjoy This Chrismukkah

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The Jewish Starlets of India’s Bollywood Cinema

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9 Things You Didn’t Know About the Late, Great Zsa Zsa Gabor

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Life & Culture

Chrismukkah

Want to throw the ultimate Chrismukkah party? Here’s how

Use these tips and supplies to mark Christmas and Hanukkah in a single bash.

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