For Syrian women, quake adds disaster on top of war’s pain
ATAREB, Syria (AP) — Draped in a heavy wool shawl against the cold, Ayesha dragged her feet, her toddler granddaughter trailing behind her, as they made the 15-minute walk from…
Turkey earthquake: The community lost under a destroyed apartment block
By Alice Cuddy in Iskenderun, Turkey - BBC News On an indistinct mound of rubble in southern Turkey is an uncannily well-preserved window frame with a butterfly print curtain that…
An 85-year Harvard study found the No. 1 thing that makes us happy in life: It helps us ‘live longer’
In 1938, Harvard researchers embarked on a decades-long study to find out: What makes us happy in life? The researchers gathered health records from 724 participants from all over the…
New poll shows Americans at odds over Black history
ANDREW ROMANO A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that white Americans are just as likely to favor (40%) as to oppose (41%) a ban on teaching Advanced Placement courses in African American…
Greta Thunberg: Saving the Climate Means Changing How We Live
“The American way of life is not up for negotiation. Period.” These are the words of U.S. President George H. W. Bush ahead of the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio…
‘We have to be here fighting’: Deborah Lipstadt opens up on her Poland-Germany trip with Douglas Emhoff
Toby Axelrod - February 9, 2023 3:46 pm BERLIN (JTA) — Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff made headlines late last month during a trip to Europe, where he met with other foreign…
Historian sheds new light on a famous story about Abraham Lincoln and a New York cantor
Andrew Silow-Carroll - February 8, 2023 1:07 pm (New York Jewish Week) — A new book untangles one of the best known incidents involving Jews in the American Civil War —…
A hospital-turned-church-turned-bar in Spain revealed as medieval synagogue
Orge Castellano - February 9, 2023 2:31 pm MADRID (JTA) — Archaeologists working in a town in southwestern Spain have excavated a 14th-century Sephardic synagogue, revealing a fully intact floor plan…
What Black adoptees want white parents to know about transracial adoption
Black adults who were adopted by white families share their perspectives on identity, culture and a sense of belonging. Some of Lydia Berkey’s happiest childhood moments were spent in a…
Tyre Nichols’s death renewed push for George Floyd Act. What’s in it?
After video footage of the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols stunned the nation, calls to revive the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act are growing louder. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) plans…
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