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Andrew Silow-CarrollThe Times of Israel |
Fred Neulander, founder of Reform M’kor Shalom congregation in Cherry Hill, avoided arrest for almost four years after hiring two hitmen to kill...
Jewish mother’s articles for the Washington Post about things she was able to do and cherish despite incurable disease were an inspiration to...
Famed New York tailor learned to sew as a teen in a Nazi death camp, dressed clients like Bush, Clinton and Obama, as well as Frank Sinatra, Paul...
With memorable roles in ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and Mel Brooks’s ‘Robin Hood: Men in Tights,’ Lewis said he viewed comedy...
Far-right extremist already serving life sentence for attempt to break into a synagogue on Yom Kippur in 2019 that he broadcast online before killing...
Weiss put aside her career in social work and health administration to found and promote multiple organizations supporting the LGBTQ community
Polish native was born 7 years before Nazi invasion; her immediate family was sent to Warsaw ghetto and survived, in part based on father’s ability...
Analyzing what the words of survivors themselves said about the genocide, Langer, who won numerous awards for his work, argued against excessive...
Zachary Solomon’s ‘A Brutal Design’ joins a growing body of Jewish speculative fiction as it imagines an alternate world in which...
Local rabbi says Jewish life was a ‘priority’ for late Los Angeles resident, who did philanthropic work with local Hadassah branch,...
Jeremy Eichler’s ‘Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance’ is joined by many other notable...
Flawed and complex, historic and particular, the noteworthy works defining this year were written prior to the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities; next year’s...
The 55th Association for Jewish Studies conference was to focus on history — but the challenges facing Diaspora Jewry due to the Israel-Hamas...
Many feel seismic shifts in how they form political alliances and how they express their Judaism in a world that feels scarier, lonelier and, in some...
Renown historian, adviser and confidant, who served as president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion for 12 years, passes away of...
Yossi Hershkovitz, the principle of a boys high school in Jerusalem, remembered for the ‘dedication and commitment he showed his students every...
Some worry attention will shift away from local communities’ needs as Jewish organizations donate millions in emergency funds to support Israelis...
SANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed to have launched on Monday a fresh drone attack against Israel, but there was no sign of...
JTA — A scruffy, bearded Jewish man in his mid-60s — distressed, disheveled but wickedly self-satisfied — is invited to spend the night at the...
JTA — In Pittsburgh, “10/27” has become a shorthand for the massacre, on October 27, 2018, of 11 Jews as they gathered for worship at the Tree...
JTA — On Oct. 10, three days into the war that began after Hamas terrorists killed some 1,400 people in Israel and took over 200 hostage, the...
JTA — On the Monday morning after the deadly Hamas attack near the Gaza border, administrators at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County...
JTA — Joanna Merlin, a famed acting coach and casting director who early in her career as an actress created the role of Tevye’s daughter Tzeitel...
JTA — Louise Glück, a Jewish-American poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020, died Friday. She was 80. Acclaimed since the...
JTA — “Saturday Night Live” returned to the air for its 49th season with a somber reflection on the Israel-Hamas war by former cast member Pete...
JTA — Juan Bradman was still in his twenties when he became a circuit judge in rural Cuba, traveling among the provinces. But in 1962, after the...
New York Jewish Week via JTA — The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research welcomed Lithuania’s president to its Manhattan headquarters Monday to honor...
JTA — Mary Ann Stein of Bethesda, Maryland, who as the founding president of The Moriah Fund supported human and civil rights in the US and Israel...
JTA — In her recent book, “The Object of Jewish Literature,” Case Western Reserve University professor Barbara A. Mann writes about how...