A New Beginning
The Jewish community played a significant role in working to lift the ban on gays in the Boy Scouts of America.At their annual meeting...
Adelsons donate another $40 million to Birthright
JTA Wire Service
Casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, donated another $40 million to the Birthright Israel Foundation.
Their latest gift brings the couple’s...
Documentary Under Way To Tell The Story Of Streit’s Matzo
JT intern
From the moment Michael Levine poked his head into a first-floor window of the tenement buildings that house Streit’s Matzo factory, he knew...
Internet Terror On The Rise
At conference, thought leaders call for change
The Internet is teeming with recruitment sites for potential jihadists; how to sites for building bombs, and numerous...
EXCLUSIVE: Top Claims Conference officials carried out own botched probe of 2001 fraud
Uriel Heilman
JTA Wire Service
The Claims Conference in recent days has blamed a now-dead regional director for bungling an early warning in 2001 about a...
Jewish leaders express shock and condolences after Boston Marathon attack
JNS.org
While the aftermath of the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon continues to unfold, Jewish leaders in Boston and Israel have expressed shock and...
Boston Marathon bombings: Jewish runner recounts ‘gruesome day’
Bob Jacob
Cleveland Jewish News/JNS.org
Kevin Goodman’s second Boston Marathon will be one he will never forget.
That’s because just about 60 minutes after he concluded the...
Possible link between marathon bombing suspect, murder of two Jews being probed
JTA Wire Service
Boston-area investigators are considering a possible link between the dead suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings and the still unsolved murder of...
Holocaust museum honors survivors and veterans at 20th anniversary
Standing together and ignoring the rainy, chilly weather of an April morning in 1993, recently inaugurated President Bill Clinton joined Holocaust survivor and Nobel...
Anti-Defamation League Celebrates 100 Years With Three-Day Conference
The Anti-Defamation League celebrated its 100th birthday by staging a three-day conference on anti-Semitism in America and abroad and on the need to combat...
