The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, along with the Leo Baeck Institute, will present a conversation with Rabbis Sally J. Priesand and Sonja K. Pilz on “Women in the Rabbinate Then and Now.”
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, along with the Leo Baeck Institute, will present a conversation with Rabbis Sally J. Priesand and Sonja K. Pilz on “Women in the Rabbinate Then and Now.”
Because no one ever plans to get sick or injured, people often fail to prepare for what to do in the event of a medical emergency. Yet, planning ahead can make all the difference in a person’s outcome. Unexpected health crises can sometimes be life threatening, and they can be particularly a…
(JNS) A panel organized by the Israeli-American Council of New York brought four millennial leaders together in Manhattan to grapple with anti-Semitism on the mode they use most often: social media.
(JTA) — London Mayor Sadiq Khan called on a local council to approve plans to build a Holocaust memorial next to Parliament.
(JTA) — The Hamas terror organization has threatened an escalation in violence on Israel’s southern border unless Israel allows financial aid from Qatar and an increase in electricity in to Gaza.
JTA — An asset management firm in Russia removed a billboard featuring a depiction of a haredi Jew extending one hand and the words: “Goodbye rent!”
(JTA) — A 17th-century Jewish cemetery in Hamburg, Germany, has become a hub for the sale and use of hard drugs.
(JTA) — A unique former synagogue in Belarus from the 19th century is being auctioned off.
(JTA) — Immigration by Jews and their relatives to Israel rose by nearly 30 percent in the first half of 2019 over the corresponding period last year.
(JTA) — A prominent New York synagogue has canceled a planned event featuring a mock trial in which prominent Jewish jurist Alan Dershowitz was to defend biblical characters accused of “kidnapping and child trafficking.”
(August 14, 2019 / JNS) The California Board of Education has announced it will scrap its current draft ethnic-studies curriculum and develop a new model curriculum following outrage by California lawmakers, activists and Jewish and pro-Israel groups for its “blatant bias against Israel.”
(JTA) — A pickup truck drove into a row of Jewish protesters demonstrating at the street entrance to an ICE detention center in Rhode Island on August 14. It appears no one was seriously injured.
(JTA) — President Donald Trump said he “probably” will wait until after Israel’s national elections next month to release his Israeli-Palestinian peace plan.
(JNS) Police from Seattle’s bias crimes division are investigating after racist fliers were found outside at least two synagogues in the city on Tisha B’Av, a Jewish national day of mourning.
(JTA) — An Ohio man who identifies with the white nationalist movement pleaded not guilty to charges related to threatening a local Jewish community center in a video posted on social media.
Faith in Action’s Live Free campaign hosted Peacemaker Sabbaths at houses of worship across the country.
The Valley Temple, a Reform congregation and member of the Union for Reform Judaism, is hosting a Prospective Member Open House on Friday, Aug. 23.
The Mayerson JCC (”the J”) will host its 87th annual meeting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 18, at in the JCC Amberley Room.
What if you had the tools to forgive someone, or let go of a grudge or resentment? What if you could shift negative interactions with others to building bridges with them instead? What could this mean for your personal and professional relationships?
(JTA) — Israel has reinstated study of the Holocaust as part of a mandatory schools curriculum that will include the persecution of North African Jewry under the Nazis.
(JTA) — A destitute man from the haredi Orthodox neighborhood of Bnei Brak won big on a scratch-off lottery ticket.
(JNS) The software firm NICE, based in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ra’anana, has won a 10-year contract to enhance airline response and investigations by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the company announced on Aug. 14.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A police officer was stabbed Thursday in Jerusalem’s Old City in a suspected terrorist attack.
(JTA) — Two Israelis were injured, one seriously, when they were hit by a car while standing at a West Bank bus stop.
(JNS) Lily Daroff and Nechama Miller, daughters of prominent leaders of the American Jewish community, were among 242 other North Americans who landed as new permanent arrivals in Israel on August 13, part of the latest Nefesh B’Nefesh charter flight in cooperation with Israel’s Ministry of…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — For Israeli Jewish voters, September’s election is about the economy — social issues, security and foreign affairs, too.
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “we will deepen our roots in all parts of our homeland” during a ceremony in the West Bank.
Did you know that prior to building the current Wise Center in Amberley Village in 1976, Wise Center was located in North Avondale?
In keeping with a promise to provide updates on its strategic planning process, Jewish Family Service is continuing to share highlights from a survey about community needs. Through input from more than 300 people, Jewish Cincinnati made it clear that aging services are a top priority.
The Skirball Museum is now open on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sundays 1-5 p.m.
(JTA) — Forty Jews were arrested at a New York City protest against Amazon’s work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Land Rover Classic is introducing a range of upgrades for older Defender models which deliver enhanced performance and on-road agility inspired by the exclusive limited-edition Defender Works V8 – 70th Edition.
(JTA) — More than 100 car tires have been slashed in the heavily Jewish town of Lakewood, New Jersey, over the past several days.
The community is invited to the Klau Library on the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion campus at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 22, for Taste of the Catskills. It will be an afternoon of reminiscing about many sunny and delightful summers spent in the Catskills and enjoying the Klau…
(JTA) — An Orthodox girls’ school in Brooklyn has installed bullet-resistant classroom doors to keep out shooters.
(JTA) — Four more alleged members of Lev Tahor, a fringe haredi Orthodox sect, were indicted in New York for conspiring to kidnap two children from their mother and return them to their sect.
(JTA) — Jail guards failed to check Jeffrey Epstein in his cell every 30 minutes per procedure, and the multimillionaire financier facing sex trafficking charges was later found to have hanged himself.
(JTA) — A man from Las Vegas, Nevada who works as a security guard was arrested and charged with plans to bomb a local synagogue or a bar that caters to the LBGTQ community.
(JNS) A new memoir written by Bob Dylan’s best friend gives readers a glimpse into parts of the music icon’s Jewish side that have previously fallen under the radar.
(JTA) — White supremacists have committed at least 73 murders since the far-right rally two summers ago in Charlottesville, Virginia.
(JTA) — A Rabbi accused of sending sexually inappropriate text and voice messages to a woman living on a Tacoma-area military base is resigning his position.
(JTA) — Descendants of Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity, inaugurated in Brazil what they say is the first ritual bath built for and by people with their family history.
(JNS) A signed written warning by legendary physicist and Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein to the Jewish people, written just days after Israel’s independence in May 1948, is being offered for sale for the first time.
(JTA) — A Buenos Aires synagogue inaugurated in 1907, one of the first in Argentina, was recovered after 20 years of being overrun with squatters.
(JNS) The head of the Lithuanian Jewish community announced, on August 6, the closing of the Choral Synagogue, Vilnius’s only functioning synagogue and Jewish community center, for an “indeterminate period” after community members received threatening phone calls and letters.
(JNS) The robotics team of the Tichonet High School in Tel Aviv was part of a group that won first place in an international robotics competition in China.
(JTA) — Krystyna Danko, one of the oldest and most celebrated non-Jews recognized by Israel for saving Jews from the Holocaust, has died. She was 102.
(JTA) — Jews were permitted to visit the Temple Mount following clashes between Muslim worshippers and Israeli security forces.
(JNS) A fire that broke out on August 7 in the Gaza-adjacent Simhoni forest was the result of an arson balloon flown over the Gaza border fence, an arson investigator from the Ashkelon Fire and Rescue Service determined.
(JTA) — A former Nazi concentration camp guard, now 92, is in good enough health to go on trial as an accessory to murder, a Hamburg court ruled.
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