Jersey City’s Jewish mayor didn’t wait to call the kosher store shooting an anti-Semitic attack. Here’s why.
By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN (JTA) — Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop was one of the first New Jersey officials to describe ...
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How Britain’s Labour Party became a hotbed of anti-Semitism
(Editor's note: The United Kingdom parliamentary elections on Thursday resulted in an overwhelming victory for Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...
This Portuguese Jewish community couldn’t afford a rabbi. Now it made a $1 million movie coming to Amazon.
By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ (JTA) — A decade ago, the tiny Jewish Community of Porto didn’t have enough money to hire a ...
My congregation prayed at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue. Here’s how we are coping this Rosh Hashana.
By BETH KISSILEFF PITTSBURGH (JTA) — Our sages teach us that “kol hatchalot kashot,” all beginnings are difficult. This phrase ...
Alex Borstein’s ‘Step out of line’ speech at the Emmys was a perfect display of Jewish pride
By JORDANA HORN SHORT HILLS, N.J. (JTA) — Whether you watched the Emmys on Sunday night or or not, chances ...
A Guatemalan asylum seeker is being sheltered in a Washington state synagogue
By BEN SALES (JTA) — In a few weeks, the congregants at Temple Beth Hatfiloh in Olympia, Wash., will gather ...
Rabbi helps dedicate a memorial to Ukrainian group that collaborated with the Nazis
By SAM SOKOL (JTA) — One side called it a fitting compromise. The other said it was a whitewash of Ukraine’s ...
Bret Stephens leaves Twitter after user compares him to bedbugs
By GABE FRIEDMAN (JTA) — Bret Stephens has left Twitter abruptly, apparently motivated by a spat with a George Washington ...
Reform leader Gilad Kariv wants to be the first non-Orthodox rabbi in the Knesset
By SAM SOKOL JERUSALEM (JTA) — Growing up secular in 1970s Tel Aviv, Gilad Kariv never expected to become a ...
For this prominent Jewish Republican, Trump’s ‘disloyalty’ jab is a bridge too far
By RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — Of the many Jews unsettled by President Donald Trump’s claim that voting for Democrats ...
