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The Circle Interprets Itself – Understanding, Reckoning, and the Collapse of Old Certainties (Ed. note: If you haven’t read Parts...
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. 15) Congratulations South African jurist Navi Pillay for winning the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. Not. The Norwegian Nobel...
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...
Choosing a crypto wallet for gaming activities offers privacy and security often absent in traditional platforms. Transactions become seamless and...
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,...
(JTA) — JERUSALEM – Within minutes of President Donald Trump endorsing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a post on Truth Social Sunday, Netanyahu’s campaign team had...
President Donald Trump endorsed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection, giving his longtime ally a major boost just nine days before Israel’s Oct. 27 election,...
Can courts instruct a rabbinical court to withdraw accusations of chutzpah? This unlikely question was posed to the U.S. Supreme Court this month when a nursing...
(JTA) — U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Saturday condemned an attack in the West Bank by masked settlers on a Washington Post photographer. The...
(JTA) — RAMLA – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the parties in his coalition seem to be losing support heading into Israel’s first election since Oct....
(JTA) — The Jewish Democratic Council of America is launching an attack ad on social media in battleground districts, slamming Young Republicans for praising Hitler and...
(JTA) — Can a college campus accurately assess its antisemitism problem without talking to Jews? That’s the question facing the University of Pittsburgh, where an internal...
(JTA) — Two rivals in the pivotal race for New York’s 17th Congressional District are aggressively courting Jewish voters, each seeking to present themselves as a...
(JTA) — DETROIT – On paper, they were all competitors: Dozens of regional groups, many funded by their respective local governments, each one hoping to recruit...
(JTA) — An Israeli national security think tank is warning that Israel’s devastating war in Gaza and its broader conflict with the Palestinians is taking a...
(JTA) — On Oct. 27, Israelis will cast their votes in a process that will determine who is prime minister and who sits in the 120-seat...
ווייניק זאַכן רופֿן אַרויס אַזוי פֿיל אַנגסטן און דעפּרעסיע ווי דאָס געפֿיל, אַז עמעצער האָט זיך נישט־שיין אויפֿגעפֿירט מיט דיר. דאָס לאָזט איבער אַן אַלגעמיינעם געפֿיל...
POMONA, NY— The Skyview Acres Cooperative is located about 30 miles north of New York City. Think of it as a suburban kibbutz. “One felt like...
How many Yiddish rock stars do you know? Maybe more than you think. If you watched the Grammy Awards back in 2018, you might have seen...
Katie Zacharia’s five-day stint as White House Press Secretary ended almost as soon as it began. But before she was fired on Friday, she managed to...
I was a freshman in college when my dad died. An Iranian Jew who came to the United States four years before the Islamic Revolution...
דעם 27סטן אָקטאָבער וועלן פֿאָרקומען די וואַלן אין ישׂראל. 38 פּאָליטישע פּאַרטייען האָבן זיך פֿאַרשריבן צו פּרובירן געווינען וואָס מער פֿון די 120 מעגלעכע ערטער אין...
(JTA) — The bitter battle that has raged between Israel’s security and political establishments over who bears responsibility for the failures ahead of the Oct. 7...
As hate manifestoes go, this one was terse: “Nuke Jews, Save Lives.” Our security team at the Center for Jewish History, where I serve as president,...
They are a common feature at American shopping malls across the U.S.: skincare kiosks staffed by charming Israeli salespeople. For American Jews, they can be a...
(JTA) — James Talarico, Texas’ Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, said he holds Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, rather than the Israeli people, responsible for civilian...
(JTA) — DUBLIN — An Irish Jewish leader said a Dublin hotel canceled rooms reserved for European delegates after learning that they were visiting for an...
The Trump administration is reportedly planning to build a case to strip Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) of her citizenship and eventually deport her. It is my...
Herding political opponents into prisons and concentration camps, suspending civil liberties, and sending SA thugs to destroy newsrooms and beat up journalists were among the means...
