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JTA – The Iowa caucuses are over – and the first real test of the presidential candidates’ viability gave us more questions than answers.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, won the Republican caucus on Feb. 1, relegating Donald Trump, the …
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Ron Kampeas
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2/5/16
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Lesléa Newman and Amy June Bates, author and illustrator of “Ketzel, the Cat who Composed,” Aharon Appelfeld, Philippe Dumas and Jeffrey M. Green, author, illustrator and translator of “Adam and Thomas,” and Laura Amy Schlitz, author of …
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2/5/16
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BOSTON (JTA) – One hundred years to the day of the nomination of Louis Brandeis to the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg paid tribute to the first Jewish justice at a program at the university that bears his name.
Ginsburg, who …
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2/5/16
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JTA – A nonprofit group has been established to preserve and restore Jewish cemeteries in southern Maine.
The Southern Maine Jewish Cemetery Association has taken ownership of two historic Portland cemeteries that have fallen into disrepair …
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2/5/16
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NEW YORK (JTA) – With the recent shooting in San Bernardino, television and social media have yet again brought images of fatalities and injuries and the grief of those directly affected into our homes. For many Americans, and in particular the …
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PAUL GOLDENBERG
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12/11/15
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – Hamilton Jordan, President Jimmy Carter’s wunderkind adviser and chief of staff, discovered at age 20 that his family’s story wasn’t a straightforward Christian Southern experience. At the cemetery service for his maternal …
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Sarah Wildman
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12/11/15
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JTA – Four elderly Jewish women playing mahjong in Florida may not sound like a crime – but that’s what was recently alleged in the city of Altamonte Springs.
Lee Delnick, Bernice Diamond, Helen Greenspan and Zelda King – aged 87 to 95 …
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12/11/15
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ORLANDO, Fla. (JTA) – Growing up in a traditional Jewish household, Joan Cubell didn’t really know much about Reform Judaism.
But after obtaining ordination a few years ago from a little-known rabbinical institute in suburban New …
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URIEL HEILMAN
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11/13/15
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – Think unity. On the heels of this year’s rancorous and polarizing debate over the Iran nuclear deal, organizers of this week’s General Assembly (GA) of Jewish federations wanted their annual conference to be an opportunity …
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Gabrielle Birkner
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11/13/15
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NEW YORK (JTA) – Do you experience feelings of peace and well-being at least once a week? Did God write the Torah? Do you eat bacon?
If these questions seem a little personal, don’t fret. They’re all part of a new Pew Research Center …
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URIEL HEILMAN
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11/13/15
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