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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops cautioned its members in a recent memorandum that Catholic “media personalities” are distorting the church’s position on Jews and...
Much of Israeli society is living with a profound cognitive dissonance, one that few articulate openly and many would rather not confront. On one hand, there...
A proposed takeover of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn by New York City’s public hospital system has hit a new obstacle, after the state Attorney General’s...
(JTA) — President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the United States had been negotiating an end to the war in Iran for the past two...
(JTA) — OXNARD, California — On Friday nights, in Jewish homes around the world, a familiar ritual unfolds: a blessing over wine, poured into a cup...
דער פֿאָרווערטס האָט שוין אַרויסגעלאָזט דעם עלעפֿטן קאַפּיטל פֿונעם ייִדישן פּאָדקאַסט, Yiddish With Rukhl. דאָס מאָל איז די טעמע „פּסח“. אין דעם קאַפּיטל וועט איר הערן...
Can We Laugh at That?: Comedy in a Conflicted Age Jacques Berlinerblau University of California Press, 256 pages, $24.95 Even in these polarized, politically turbulent times,...
(JTA) — Len Saxe, a researcher at Brandeis University, has been studying the impact of Birthright trips to Israel since the initiative launched in 1999. Last...
TULSA, Okla. — The house had prairie views, four bedrooms and a pantry large enough to support a small diaspora. More than 50 people wandered through...
For weeks, I lived in Tel Aviv as missiles streaked across the sky overhead. I heard sirens day and night, disrupting sleep and leaving me constantly...
In TikTok videos viewed tens of thousands of times, 31-year-old Dan Sheena dons a blond wig and acts out skits of a bickering Iraqi couple in...
(JTA) — A California lawmaker is introducing a bill that would create a buffer zone around houses of worship, the latest effort by lawmakers to respond...
(JTA) — It is not every day a sitting mayor celebrates his bar mitzvah. But last Saturday, as more than 700 people packed the pews at...
(JTA) — Since he was 22, Andrew Ginsburg has been inundated with comments that he resembles the late John F. Kennedy Jr. Now 46, he says...
(JTA) — Germany, an early defender of Israel against allegations of genocide in Gaza at the International Court of Justice, has pulled support as it faces...
(JTA) — The University of California, Berkeley said bans on Zionists “can violate university rules” and the bylaws of any student groups barring their inclusion must...
In the Trump administration’s year-long battle with Harvard University threatening federal funding over alleged antisemitism, its precise concerns have emerged in fuzzy and piecemeal fashion —...
Philip Roth and Judy Blume were born five years apart in the 1930s. Both grew up in New Jersey, in the crucible of Jewish American suburban...
First, in 1876, Thomas Edison opened up his “invention factory” in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Then, in 1941, Alexander Graham Bell’s Bell Labs moved its headquarters...
As antisemitism floods American political discourse, the impulse in American Jewish life to not discuss certain things publicly — because they are complicated or shameful, or...