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One Month Ahead of Ukraine War Anniversary, JDC Widens Care for Jews in Europe

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As the world prepares to commemorate one year since the start of the crisis in Ukraine, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) continues and is expanding its...

AJC Survey on Holocaust Knowledge Among Americans Shows Few Know Numbers, Details

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Most U.S. adults know when the Holocaust happened and are familiar with Auschwitz, but fewer are cognizant about the number of Jews murdered and...

Online Holocaust Denial Suppressed in English, Though Rife in Arabic

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As International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27 forces Jews to ask themselves how safe they feel, new data from CyberWell has revealed social-media...

‘Jews Out!’ German Board Game on Exhibit at Tel Aviv University Library

On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, a new exhibition at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi...

Five Rabbis Sue State of Missouri Over Abortion Bans on Religious Freedom Grounds

Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA Five rabbis from multiple Jewish denominations are among more than a dozen Missouri faith leaders challenging the state’s ban on abortion. In a lawsuit...

Two Antisemitism Reports Show Troubling Signs on the Horizon

A new survey released last week by the Anti-Defamation League indicates that the overwhelmingly vast majority of Americans believe at least one antisemitic trope...

Pickleball Is Picking Up: Instructors Say It’s Healthy for Both Mind and Body

Pickleball started in 1965 with three men and some spare equipment; it was founded by Joel Pritchard, Bill Bell and Barney McCallum on Bainbridge...

‘U.N. Exhibit Remembers’ When the World Turned Its Back on Stateless Jewish Refugees

Andrew Silow-Carroll | New York Jewish Week via JTA In 2017, Deborah Veach went back to Germany, looking for the site of the displaced persons...

BBYO Leader: ‘Teens Need Tools to Understand Antisemitism and How to Respond’

Growing up in Owings Mills and attending the Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School, Nora Leavey says she has a strong and solid Jewish identity,...

New Grant for Maryland Students to Enable High-Schoolers to Learn in Israel

Mara Fahl High-school students in the state of Maryland have a new way to access Israel-education experiences with the establishment of generous grants towards tuition...