Our Daily Bread, Cincinnati’s largest soup kitchen, is feeding the homeless and food insecure in ever larger numbers from its Over-the-Rhine location. These difficult times make the soup kitchen’s mission more challenging as they are forced to operate with a critically minimal staff while pr…
Our Daily Bread, Cincinnati’s largest soup kitchen, is feeding the homeless and food insecure in ever larger numbers from its Over-the-Rhine location. These difficult times make the soup kitchen’s mission more challenging as they are forced to operate with a critically minimal staff while pr…
(JTA) — Utensils, tools and scraps of leather were found in a prisoners’ block at Auschwitz during renovation and restoration work.
(JTA) – Despite the announcement that New York state will now allow religious services to resume with up to 10 people, some Orthodox rabbis are saying not so fast.
(JNS) For the second time in almost as many weeks, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has come under scrutiny for actions some say are targeting the more than 1 million Jews in the city.
(JTA) — The National Lawyers Guild has settled a lawsuit with an Israeli organization for refusing its ad in the annual dinner journal.
Working entirely from home was never an option for the staff of the Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati (JCGC); some aspects of their jobs must be done on-site and involves necessary engagement with the public.
Columbus, Ohio (May 8, 2020) — David Lefton, Esq., a partner at the Cincinnati firm of Barron Peck Bennie & Schlemmer, was elected by his peers to serve as the next President of the Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA). As President-Elect, he will become an officer of the OSBA beginning on …
(JNS) More than 100 Israeli schoolchildren were sent into quarantine on May 21st after cases of COVID-19 cropped up in educational facilities in multiple locations less than a week after Israeli schools returned to running at full capacity.
(JTA) — Every summer, Emma Kaplan would be assigned a color.
(JTA) — Swastikas were sprayed on a golf course in Melbourne, Australia, founded by Jews nearly seven decades ago because they were not allowed to play at other clubs.
(JTA) — Jewish comedian Judy Gold shared some exciting news: Her son, Ben Callahan-Gold, is set to play Division 1 basketball at Tulane University beginning this fall.
(JTA) — The U.S. Justice Department has filed a discrimination lawsuit against a New Jersey township over zoning restrictions that allegedly target the Orthodox Jewish community.
(JNS) As part of an ongoing investigation into the May 12 killing of Israel Defense Forces Staff Sgt. Amit Ben-Yigal by Palestinian terrorists, Israeli security forces are using suspects’ DNA samples to locate the murder weapon.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A number of Israeli websites were victims of a cyberattack on May 21st by a group of hackers to mark Al-Quds Day.
(JTA) — After more than three years of investigation, charges in three cases and three national elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will enter a Jerusalem courtroom for the start of his corruption trial.
Although the Cincinnati campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion has been closed since mid-March, students have been completing the 2019-2020 academic year online. In its 145-year history, this is the first time that the Cincinnati campus of HUC-JIR is unable to hold in p…
U.S. Veteran medallions that now proudly mark the graves of every veteran in two of Cincinnati’s largest Jewish cemeteries, Montgomery’s United Jewish Cemetery and the Walnut Hills Cemetery, were further transformed on Sunday, May 17 with the addition of over 1000 new American flags.
Just over a year ago, StarPoint Home Care was born from a unique and visionary community partnership. Early on, however, when personal tragedy struck the organization, that partnership—along with the viability of StarPoint itself—was severely challenged. Today, in the midst of the coronaviru…
(JTA) — The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf company announced that the products in its Los Angeles stores will no longer all be certified kosher.
The staff of Cedar Village received a big surprise this month. The Board of the Jewish Home of Cincinnati donated over fifteen thousand dollars to be distributed in fifty dollar Kroger gift cards to every one of the senior living community's employees.
To celebrate the giving of the Torah on Mt. Sinai, Isaac M. Wise Temple will mark the occasion with the Erev Shavuot Service on Thursday, May 28, at 7:00 p.m. (online).
As anti-Semitic incidents reach a record high, community leaders in Cincinnati will convene for a series of digital panels that will address the underlying reasons that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in antisemitism and xenophobia in Ohio and nationwide.
(Tuesday, May 19, 2020) As the state of Ohio lifts some restrictions on public gatherings, with outdoor seating at restaurants already open (May 15), indoor seating at restaurants beginning May 21, gym and fitness centers reopening May 26 and child care May 31, some synagogues in Cincinnati…
In response to Covid-19, Jaguar Land Rover today announced new programs to support current owners and new car shoppers purchasing vehicles from Jaguar and Land
(JTA) — The Missouri House of Representatives passed a bill that would prevent the state from doing business with some companies that boycott Israel.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. Senate unanimously approved $10 million in funding for Holocaust education in American schools.
(JTA) — The Senate has introduced legislation to enhance partnerships between American and Israeli companies on COVID-19 projects, thus lessening U.S. dependence on China for life-saving medications and treatments.
Israeli TV is all the rage right now. You’ve probably heard of “Shtisel,” the sensation about a haredi Orthodox family in Jerusalem that swept the world since it premiered on Netflix in 2019, or maybe you know “The Beauty and the Baker,” an enchanting Israeli comedic telenovela (streamable …
(JTA) — A video on the social media music video platform TikTok that makes fun of the numbers tattooed on the arms of Jews held in Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust has received over 623,000 views.
(JTA) — The South African Jewish Board of Deputies has established a fund to feed communities throughout the country that are most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
JTA- A fire in Iran struck what is said to be the burial place of the biblical Esther and Mordechai.
(JTA) — A regional government in Spain hired an organization that is widely regarded as anti-Semitic to train teachers on how to combat racism.
SYDNEY (JTA) — Nearly 25 years ago, Tom Goldman and Baruch Ben-Yigal forged a relationship that became stronger as the years passed.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel gave final approval for the export of medical cannabis — an industry it expects to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, Reuters reported.
(JTA) — After over a year and three national elections, Israel’s new government was officially sworn in May 17.
(May 15, 2020 / JNS) Jordan’s King Abdullah warned of “massive conflict” between his country and Israel if the Jewish state proceeds with annexing territory this summer in Judea and Samaria.
(JTA) — China’s ambassador to Israel was found dead in his home May 17 in the central Israeli city of Herzliya.
(JTA) — Twenty-six Israelis who were stuck in Morocco during the coronavirus pandemic were extracted from the country in a secret operation on a plane owned by Sheldon and Miriam Adelson.
Bartenura Moscato is the super sweet, bubbly kosher wine beloved by Upper West Side Jewish gals and hip hop stars alike. It made splashy headlines back in 2005 when the rapper Lil’ Kim mentioned it in one of her songs.
Rabbi Karen Thomashow, Associate Rabbi at Wise Temple, began her eulogy for Rabbi Sissy Coran with the following words: “Our world is in pain. Rabbi David Abudraham of Medieval Spain confirms this for us. He says that we count the days between Passover and Shavuot because the world is in pai…
“It seemed like a perfect synergy of Jewish organizations,” said Alexis. “My twin six-year-old girls love to do art, and the Connect Project was a perfect way for them to help brighten someone’s day.”
(May 7, 2020 / JNS) U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released on Wednesday from a Maryland hospital, announced the nation’s highest court in a statement.
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A Syrian asylum-seeker who in 2017 broke into a kosher restaurant in the Dutch capital was again arrested for smashing its windows while holding a lighter.
(JTA) — Dozens of paving stones cut from Jewish headstones were unearthed during redevelopment work in Prague’s tourist district.
(May 8, 2020 / JNS) Between 1,300 and 2,000 French Jews have succumbed to the coronavirus, according to the country’s Jewish burial service.
(JTA) — After several weeks at a London mortuary, the unclaimed body of 95-year-old Herbert Max Fraenkel was slated to be buried in a shared grave at a pauper’s funeral.
(JTA) — When Rabbi Moshe Hauer last week told Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top health advisor, that synagogues wouldn’t let congregants sit within 8 feet of each other once services resume, he wasn’t just making a joke about Jews’ tendency toward closeness.
(JTA) — The Jewish Museum of Munich and the Jewish Museum of Vienna announced plans to reopen later this month, making them the first Jewish museums in Europe to open doors to the public after being closed since March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
(May 10, 2020 / Israel Hayom) Israel’s national-religious Yamina faction announced Sunday, May 10, that its coalition talks with the Likud Party have failed and that it will be joining the benches of the opposition in the coming Knesset, where it will be “preparing for the day after Netanyahu.”
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