A New Destination for Troubled Jewish Youth Trying to Kick Drug Dependency: Cyprus
By Larry Luxner
TEL AVIV — Young people with substance-abuse dependencies often face a stark challenge when trying to overcome their problem: Any kind of...
Translating ‘Tzedakah’ for Marylanders: Sen. Ben Cardin’s Long Jewish Goodbye
Ben Cardin’s love letter to Maryland, the state he has represented in the U.S. Senate since 2007, was also a love letter to his...
World Briefs: Robert Kraft and Meek Mill Walk March of Living Together and more
Robert Kraft and Meek Mill Walk March of Living Together
An unusual duo made the two-mile-plus walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau last week during the...
Hebrew School Enrollment Across US Down by Nearly Half Since 2006
Living in Brooklyn, surrounded by synagogues and Jewish schools, Rachel Weinstein White and her husband hoped to find a place where their children could...
New all-digital Hunger Museum charts US response to food insecurity through a Jewish lens
An 1888 portrait of Ellen Swallow Richards and her all-female home economics class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A 1915 campaign poster that maps out the 20...
Jewish Shoppers Struggle With Highest Prices in Recent Memory for Passover Food
A woman pushed her shopping cart down an aisle filled with Passover foods in a supermarket in northern New Jersey. She lifted a box...
How one special Pink Day helps save and support cancer patients
Eric Berger | JTA
When Rachel Wojnilower was an undergraduate at American University in Washington, D.C., she did all kinds of activities with her Jewish...
Why a County in Utah Could Play a Role in Israel’s Judicial Crisis
Aron Davidson has never been to Israel. He isn’t Jewish. He began serving in his position, Utah County clerk, just two months ago.
But the...
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Embraces Access to Eastern European Jewish History Over Gatekeeping
Dovid Zaklikowski
The bright hallways, expansive staircases and sleek sofas don’t reveal what is beyond the glass doors at the Center for Jewish History in...
Sen. Dianne Feinstein will not run again following more than 30 years in office
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Jewish Democrat from California who has been in office for more than three decades, will not run in 2024.
“I am...
