(JTA) — The Jewish Advocate, a 118-year-old newspaper in Boston founded by Theodor Herzl, is the latest victim of the coronavirus crisis.The weekly announced Wednesday that it will suspend …
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Marcy Oster
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9/23/20
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JTA – The Paul E. Singer Foundation said it will give at least $1 million to help secure Jewish institutions around New York in response to the shooting attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue that …
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11/8/18
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – Bryant Johnson says pressure creates diamonds, and I think I just upped the carat level.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal trainer did not know that his …
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RON KAMPEAS
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1/10/19
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JTA – Earlier this year, our colleagues at the three leading Jewish newspapers in the United Kingdom published the same front-page headline and joint editorial voicing concern over …
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11/8/18
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JTA – The American Jewish Committee presented its Moral Courage Award to B.G. Willison, an American citizen who rescued Lea Kovensky, a survivor of the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in …
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6/9/17
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BY BEN HARRIS
(JTA) – Before everything changed, Jalna Silverstein and Asael Papour were planning a wedding much like many other Jewish nuptials on the Upper West Side of …
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BEN HARRIS
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4/5/20
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – A bipartisan task force to combat anti-Semitism around the world was established by the U.S. House of Representatives.
The task force launched March 24 is designed to educate Congress about anti-Semitism, which its members …
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3/26/15
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BY TOM TUGEND
LOS ANGELES (JTA) – Kirk Douglas – actor, director, producer, author, philanthropist and Torah student – is celebrating his 100th birthday on Dec. 9, and …
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TOM TUGEND
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12/9/16
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JTA — A federal judge on May 16 granted control of the country’s oldest synagogue to the Rhode Island congregation that worships there and not the building’s New York-based founding …
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5/27/16
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ROME (JTA) – A road race passing sites of Holocaust and Jewish remembrance in Rome will highlight events in Italy marking International Holocaust Memorial Day.
The “Run for …
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1/20/17
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