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Israel officially signs peace treaties with UAE and Bahrain in White House ceremony

By MARCY OSTER

(JTA) — Israel signed peace treaties with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain at the White House on Tuesday, with President Donald Trump calling the moment the “dawn of a new Middle East.”

Details about the treaties...

Hurricane Sally achieves status as Category 2 storm

By ALAN SMASON

Hurricane Sally rapidly intensified to a Category 2 storm as weather forecasters continued predicting  a trend for a more likely Mississippi Gulf Coast landfall late tonight or early Tuesday night. The heaviest winds near the center have...

Hurricane Sally intensifies, path still uncertain

By ALAN SMASON

Hurricane warnings were extended by authorities from the Louisiana coastline to the panhandle of Florida as Hurricane Sally rapidly increased from a loosely organized tropical storm to a Category 1 storm bearing 90 m.p.h. winds late Monday...

UPDATE: Tropical Storm Sally expected to intensify into hurricane

By ALAN SMASON

Tropical Storm Sally continued to intensify as it advanced slowly eastward and slightly away from the Southeast Louisiana shoreline. However, the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the Alabama coastline seem now to be more at risk as the...

Bahrain will normalize ties with Israel, Trump announces

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Bahrain will normalize ties with Israel at a White House ceremony next week, President Donald Trump said on Twitter Friday, less than a month after the United Arab Emirates agreed to normalize ties with the Jewish state.

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Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for brokering Israel-UAE agreement

(JTA) — President Donald Trump was nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a lawmaker in the Norway parliament who heads his country’s delegation to NATO,...

Quirky ‘Nita & Zita’ finds a new online home

By ALAN SMASON

A theatre reviewer in a pandemic? Sounds crazy, no? But here in New Orleans with no shows to see, I’ve become more than that. I’ve assumed new roles as a director, a stage manager and in the...

Sandy Rosenthal releases new book on 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

By DEAN SHAPIRO, Exclusive to the CCJN

As New Orleans observes the 15th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, the timing was optimal for the release of a new book by one of the most outspoken and influential advocates for...

‘Israel’ and ‘elites’: The Republican convention sends mixed messages to Jews

By RON KAMPEAS

(JTA) — Israel came up every one of the four nights of the Republican convention. So did “elites.” Speakers as diverse as Vice President Mike Pence and a lobsterman from Maine cited moving the U.S. Embassy to...

Biden closes convention the way he launched his campaign: Repudiating anti-Semitism

By RON KAMPEAS

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Joe Biden closed the Democratic National Convention the way he launched his campaign in April of last year: By invoking what he depicted as President Donald Trump’s callousness to racism and anti-Semitism.

Biden, speaking...