All you smarties have probably seen it, but I’ve only just gotten around to JTA’s new and improved site. In addition to hooking us up with Jewish news from all over the world with its constantly-updated breaking news column and daily features, there’s now a virtual Talmud of related content for each article, newscasts from Israel, videos, podcasts and — because we Jews can never have enough outlets to express our thoughts — a brand new blogs/opinion page. (Esther K wants to know: If you could ban any Jewish story from the news and blogs, which would it be? I know my vote.)

With a reputation for reliable reporting and excellent journalism, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has been disseminating information from Minsk to Manhattan, Haifa to Antwerp, Buenos Aires to Shanghai and every other point in the Diaspora for 90 years. How exciting to see it evolve into a cutting edge portal to world Jewry as well as a strong alternative to the pablum our mainstream news sources churn out! In this weird world of windbag bloggers and anti-Israel-Jewish sentiment, don’t you agree that we need it more than ever?