Highlights of the much anticipated survey of the Cincinnati Jewish Community in 2019 were released and discussed on Jan. 15. The heads of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati and the Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati framed the conversation and introduced the researchers involved in the project.
Highlights of the much anticipated survey of the Cincinnati Jewish Community in 2019 were released and discussed on Jan. 15. The heads of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati and the Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati framed the conversation and introduced the researchers involved in the project.
For the first time since 2008, the local Jewish community has an updated, benchmark study of Jewish Cincinnati. The Brandeis University Cohen Center for Modern Jewish studies and the Steinhardt Social Research Institute, also at Brandeis, prepared this new report for the Jewish Federation of…
Having served the Jewish community as Director of Community Building for the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati for 20 years, Barb Miller retired this past December. Miller’s portfolio included overseeing the Planning & Allocations (P&A) Committee, leading the Israel Center, building re…
The American Israelite has added two new members to the newspaper team: Gailya Tomaino and Dr. Jordan Finkin.
During the week from Jan. 5 through Jan. 11, Wise Temple hosted the Interfaith Hospitality Network’s (IHN), providing shelter and support to families who have experienced crises and are temporarily homeless.
(JNS) While there were no U.S. deaths as a result of last week’s Iranian missile attacks on two Iraqi bases housing U.S. soldiers, 11 U.S. service members have now been reported as sustaining injuries, according to the Pentagon.
Jana Riess traveled to Israel in late spring as part of a group of Christian journalists under the auspices of the American Jewish Committee. She will be sharing her impressions of the trip with the First Friday group at Northern Hills Synagogue on Friday, February 7th at 8:00 p.m.
(JTA) — A man sprayed a swastika and racial epithets on the stairs and front door of a synagogue in Lincoln, Nebraska, then took a picture of his vandalism.
(JTA) — President Donald Trump warned the three European parties to the Iran nuclear deal that he would impose high tariffs on automobile exports if they did not confront Iran over its increased uranium enrichment.
(JTA) — If synagogues hire armed guards, they should be trained police officers, a top Jewish security agency says in a new report.
(JTA) — A court in Slovenia voided the treason conviction of a Nazi collaborator who was executed in Yugoslavia shortly after World War II.
(JNS) Hamas is calling for mass prayer rallies on Friday at the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and other mosques in Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip in protest against “Israeli Judaization schemes” at the two sites.
(JNS) The Italian government adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism on January 17th.
(JNS) The New York Department of Education (DOE) will organize field trips to New York City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Lower Manhattan for eighth- and 10th-grade students from the neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Crown Heights and Borough Park in Brooklyn…
(JTA) — A board game called Secret Hitler was removed from the shelves of three stores in Montreal.
(JTA) — Bar Refaeli would avoid prison and her mother would be sent to jail under a plea bargain proposal to prosecutors by the Israeli supermodel and her parents over suspected tax evasion and perjury.
(JTA) — The United Kingdom designated the entire Hezbollah organization as a terrorist group and froze its assets.
(JTA) — At least three Iranian fighters were reported killed in airstrikes on a Syrian airbase in an attack blamed on Israel.
(JNS) Now through March 21, Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein Harod, a kibbutz in northern Israel, is exhibiting the works of Chaim Soutine, one of the leading artists of the 20th century, for the first time in Israel in 50 years.
(JTA) Israel’s military carried out airstrikes on terror group installations in Gaza on Wednesday after terrorists launched rocket attacks on southern Israel.
(JTA) — An Israeli man was moderately injured after he was stabbed by a Palestinian teen near the West Bank city in Hebron, hours after a Palestinian woman approached soldiers brandishing a knife in the Old City of Jerusalem.
(JNS) The Israeli military this week held its first joint cyber drill with Thai forces, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said Wednesday.
Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett on Saturday issued restraining orders barring members of a radical left-wing group from Judea and Samaria.
(JTA) — Hundreds of Muslims chanted about killing Jews outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on Friday morning, prompting police to disperse the crowd.
Cedar Village provided a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for senior veterans. The senior living community in Mason, Ohio recently hosted Honor Flight Tri-State’s Flightless Honor Flight. This event magically recreated the Honor Flight Tri-State trip for veterans 65 and older who were unable t…
Is somebody in your life expecting a baby? If that person is a family member or a neighbor or friend, you are cordially invited to let them know about an upcoming class, “Expecting Jewish Baby,” on three successive Monday nights beginning Jan. 27 followed by Shabbat dinner on Feb. 21 at Wise…
(JTA) — Gal Gadot is the new pitchwoman for Smartwater.
(JTA) — The 2020 Oscar nominations are out, and unsurprisingly, they’re already causing a firestorm on social media.
(JTA) — Prince Harry’s sudden retirement as a senior member of Britain’s Royal Family has eclipsed another bit of news about his late mother’s niece: Lady Kitty Spencer, a 29-year-old fashion model, is engaged to a Jewish fashion tycoon more than twice her age.
The new Land Rover Defender 90 and 110 attended CES 2020, the world’s largest consumer electronics show in Las Vegas on Jan. 7-10, showcasing their new dual eSIM connectivity.
(JNS) Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon has decided to quit politics, and his name will not be on the Likud list in the upcoming March 2 election, Globes reported on January 12th.
(JTA) — Israeli intelligence helped the United States in its mission to assassinate top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.
(JTA) — Israel released two prisoners with ties to Syria in what officials said was a goodwill gesture in response to the release last year of the remains of an Israeli soldier who had been missing for more than 35 years.
(JNS) Israel’s Defense Ministry announced on January 8th that it is developing a laser defense system against missiles, drones and other airborne threats based on what it called a “technological breakthrough.”
(JNS) Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett announced on January 8th the establishment of a task force to develop and legalize unauthorized outposts in Judea and Samaria.
(JTA) — The land of milk and honey has been short of one of the most commonly used dairy products: butter.
(JNS) Torrential downpours have caused the deaths of at least seven people in Israel since the beginning of the month, as well as flooding in several major cities.
(JTA) — The United States levied intensified sanctions on Iran, extending existing sanctions on its financial and energy sectors to its trade in metals.
(JTA)- Agnes Keleti, the world’s oldest living Olympic champion and a Holocaust survivor, marked her 99th birthday.
(JNS) Ukraine has quit the U.N. Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.
(JTA) — A monument to Holocaust victims was vandalized in a Greek city whose synagogue was the target of an anti-Semitic attack.
Fay Boksenbom May, a 67-year member of Rockdale Temple, is the first recipient of the Women of Rockdale (WoR) Sisterhood’s Queen Esther Award, created to honor a long-term member’s service to Rockdale and to WoR. She received the award at the annual WoR Sisterhood Erev Shabbat service on Nov…
For Connie Hinitz, Bobbi Handwerger, and Sonia Milrod, visiting Morocco not only was on their bucket list, but it exceeded all expectations. As Bobbi Handwerger said, “Morocco was more fascinating than I could have imagined. The whole trip, especially the Jewish history, was so interesting.”…
(JNS) The suspect accused of the Dec. 28 machete attack at a home and prayer hall known as Rabbi Rottenberg’s Shul in Monsey, N.Y., injuring five of the 100 or so celebrants at a Hanukkah candle-lighting party, pleaded not guilty on Monday to federal hate crimes.
(JTA) — Graffiti reading “Kill All Jews” and a swastika were discovered drawn in black marker in the stairwell of a high school in Brooklyn, New York.
(JTA) — The man who threw a table at the assailant during the stabbing attack at a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, and then wrote down the attacker’s license plate number, received the State Senate’s highest honor.
(JTA) — A New Jersey teen accused the manager of a local pizzeria of sending anti-Semitic text messages after he asked to take off for a Jewish holiday.
(JNS) Agudath Israel of America has filed a brief in support of a case before the Supreme Court of Michigan urging the court to uphold a state program that provides for state reimbursement to nonpublic schools for services provided by the schools in compliance with state mandates.
(JTA) — Based on preliminary figures, 944 bias incidents were reported in New Jersey in 2019, a 65 percent increase from the previous year.
(JTA) — Gene Steinberg was born and raised barely an hour outside New York City, but well into adulthood he could barely speak the language of his native country.
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