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By MARTY GREEN I know many Jews will be outraged at the very notion of comparing the two. “The pogroms!”,...
By ELENA KNIGHT Rosh Chodesh Sameach! Though last month’s article (Embracing your femininity in Tishrei) had far more holidays, thus...
US crypto regulation is back in focus after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission opened a public consultation on October 5...
By HENRY SREBRNIK The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights survey of 2024 found that 96 per cent of Jewish...
(Posted Oct. 12) Thirty-eight parties. That’s right. Thirty-eight political parties are running in this year’s national elections. Meshuga! Of course. The...
Perya games often attract a crowd for a reason. Standing near a booth during a fiesta lets you track the...
(Ed. note: If you haven’t read Part 1 of “The Red Inheritance,” you can find it here: The Red Inheritance.)...
On a weekday afternoon in a community centre, the loudest table in the room is usually the Mah Jongg game,...
By Rachel Shteir September 22, 2026 This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s...
By BERNIE BELLAN In May 2023 I wrote a story about Joan Druxman, whom I had just met in person...
By DAVID TOPPER When my late wife, Sylvia, and I moved into the house I’m still in, we brought with...
By HENRY SREBRNIK As we enter the fourth year of the “October 7” wars, things in Eastern Europe remain dire. There...
By H.C. PiloskiPART I — ROOTSForewordThe Red Inheritance is a work of fiction built on real histories. The political movements,...
An NBA defender who meets a ball handler near the opposite baseline is trying to interfere with the possession before...
By PJ Grisar September 8, 2026 This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s...
By JOANNE PALMER (reprinted with permission from the New Jersey Jewish News and the Jewish Standard) If every person is...
A reader wrote in last month asking a simple question: is it legal to play online casino games in Manitoba,...
By ELENA KNIGHT Rosh Chodesh Sameach! This month, Tishrei, is a time of beginnings; we observe Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur,...
By DAVID TOPPER This story of the sad and short life of a remarkable woman, Clara Haber, should be better...
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(JTA) — One year after Jewish Currents editor-at-large Arielle Angel called for “new Jewish institutions” that have no attachment to Israel or Zionism, more than 100...
(JTA) — Israeli judoka Raz Hershko, one of the country’s top athletes, missed a major opportunity in 2025 when the 12-day war between Israel and Iran...
(JTA) — Educators from Jewish schools across the U.S. canceled a study trip to Reggio Emilia, Italy, over whether the hosts would require participants to formally...
As Jews in synagogues around the world read the story of Noah’s ark this week. a team of Biblical archeologists funded by Christian groups will be...
(JTA) — SOMERVILLE, Mass. — The issue of divestment from Israel returns to the Somerville City Council in Massachusetts on Tuesday night as lawmakers plan to...
(JTA) — Philadelphia’s Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History is moving closer to becoming part of the Smithsonian Institution at a moment of significant upheaval...
(JTA) — The deaths of two Jewish men in an attack on a synagogue in Manchester last year will be examined through a public inquiry, the...
(JTA) — With just two weeks to go before Israel’s election, the political chessboard is set — and there is little indication that Prime Minister Benjamin...
A majority of Jewish voters in New York City believe criticism of the Israeli government is often used as a cover for antisemitism, and more are...
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It is with heavy hearts and deep sadness that we announce the peaceful passing of Freddy after a brief, but valiant battle with cancer. His beloved...
In Lloyd Wolf’s evocative photography exhibit, “A Joyful Noise,” you can almost hear the Klezmer music — plaintive and celebratory, earthy and devout, and always with...
(JTA) — Every October, Christopher Columbus returns not only as history but as controversy. The voyages associated with his name transformed the world, but their legacy...
(JTA) — Hate crimes targeting Jewish people in England and Wales rose by 10% in the year ended in March, according to the latest data released...
(JTA) — Hasan Piker called the protesters who jeered New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani at an Oct. 7 vigil last week “opportunists,” who “tarnished” the anti-Zionist...
(JTA) — An explosion during a school hiking trip killed a boy about 14 years old on Monday and injured 24 others in northern Israel, Magen...
Harry Houdini liked to tell people that he was the son of a rabbi, and although he was known for the tricks he played on audiences,...
דעם 25סטן יולי איז דער פּאָעט דזשײק שנײַדער געפֿאָרן קײן װײַמאַר כּדי צו מאָדערירן אַ כּמו־טעלעװיזיע־פּראָגראַם אױף ייִדיש מיט דער אַקטריסע עלענאָר ריסאַ, אַן אונטערנעמונג אין...
Academic stars in high school, Abrasha Blum and Luba Bielecka shared a slow burn romance and fervor for radical change. That hardly set them apart amid...
AIPAC’s super PAC has re-entered Michigan’s closely watched U.S. Senate race less than a month before the general election, spending nearly $100,000 on mailers attacking Abdul...
With barely two weeks remaining before Israel’s Oct. 27 election, the country has been consumed by an extraordinary confrontation between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior...
(JTA) — JERUSALEM — Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a 300-meter (984-foot) section of Jerusalem’s ancient Lower Aqueduct, providing another window into how engineers about 2,000 years...
(JTA) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing increasing pressure from some on the leftmost flank of his voting coalition, and an ICE shooting...
(JTA) — BOSTON — In the middle of a conversation about her future children, it dawned on Leah Robbins that the school she imagined for them...
