Here’s What Jewish Voters Should Know About Kamala Harris
It’s official: Kamala Harris is Joe Biden’s choice for vice president.
The California senator, who made history Tuesday as the first Black woman to join...
Adin Steinsaltz Made the Talmud More Accessible
By Ben Harris via JTA.org
Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, the acclaimed scholar whose landmark translation of the Talmud enabled a vast readership to access one...
Planning Reopenings Amid Pandemic, Jewish Institutions Navigate Minefield of Challenges
When Jewish institutions like JCCs and synagogues shut down this spring due to the coronavirus pandemic, it often felt like a wrenching decision arrived...
Cancer Research Study Finds New Mutation in Ashkenazi Jews
By Sophie Panzer
A team led by researchers in the Basser Center for BRCA at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania has...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Says Cancer Has Returned, Chemotherapy ‘Yielding Positive Results’
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced that she is undergoing chemotherapy for liver cancer.
In a statement Friday, a day after being released from...
The Education of DeSean Jackson
The longer David Adelman talked to DeSean Jackson via FaceTime, the more he realized that the Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver understood why his Instagram...
Bari Weiss, Opinion Editor With Anti-Semitism Focus, Resigns From The New York Times
Bari Weiss, the Jewish opinion writer and editor who has been a lightning rod for left-wing critics, has resigned from The New York Times.
The...
Conservative Leader Jacob Blumenthal Looks at How His Movement Adapted to COVID-19
By Eric Schucht
In a pandemic, Conservative synagogues are all pretty much in the same boat, whether in Washington, D.C., or Washington State. That’s the...
DeSean Jackson’s Post-Pandemic Schedule: Visiting Auschwitz With a Holocaust Survivor
NFL star DeSean Jackson, who last week apologized for posting anti-Semitic quotes attributed to Adolf Hitler and Louis Farrakhan, accepted a Holocaust survivor’s invitation...
Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jews Are Acting Like They Have Herd Immunity. Could They Be Right?
The front page of the June 26 issue of Der Yid, one of the most widely circulated Yiddish newspapers among New York’s Hasidic Orthodox...
