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Supreme Court justices John Roberts, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer

Jewish Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring

Stephen Breyer, the oldest justice on the Supreme Court and one of its minority of three liberal justices, is set to retire, multiple reports...
Congregation Beth Israel livestream

Texas hostage crisis was a watershed moment in the livestreaming of American synagogues

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By Shira Hanau and Philissa Cramer For most of the Shabbat services streamed from Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, over the course of the...
A Police vehicle sits outside of the Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas

‘We were terrified’: Texas rabbi says he threw a chair at synagogue gunman to...

Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker has publicly described for the first time the moment he and two other hostages escaped a gunman in his synagogue in...
SWAT team members deploy near the Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas

All Texas synagogue hostages ‘out alive and safe’ after harrowing 12-hour standoff

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By Ron Kampeas and Andrew Lapin Update:  All four hostages at a synagogue in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area were declared “out alive and safe” by...
The first Birthright Israel group during the pandemic

Onward Israel merges with Birthright to magnify reach

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By Toby Tabachnick and Faygie Holt Two organizations that provide Israel experiences for Jewish young adults, Birthright Israel and Onward Israel, announced their merger last...
Dr. Chana Wircberg

For these Orthodox women, balancing demanding careers with family life is worth the challenges

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By Renee Ghert-Zand Orthodox Brooklyn native Chana Wircberg always knew she wanted to be a physician. Shortly after marrying and becoming a young mother, Wircberg made...
Ofek Reef

At Yeshiva U., students get used to their basketball team winning again and again

In early 2019, before his college’s men’s basketball team began a historic and unlikely winning streak, Jonathan Malek and three friends decided to catch...
Harry Reid

Harry Reid, the two-fisted majority leader with deep Jewish ties, dies at 82

When Harry Reid was 19, he wanted to marry Landra Gould. Her Jewish parents had other ideas. Reid, a middleweight boxer who converted to the...
Chaim Walder

Chaim Walder, popular haredi Orthodox author accused of sexual abuse, found dead in suspected...

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By Shira Hanau Chaim Walder, an Israeli haredi Orthodox children’s book author who was accused last month of sexual abuse by several teenage girls, was...
Students doing remote learning

As COVID spikes in NYC, Jewish schools and synagogues go remote again

Twenty-one months after New York City synagogues and Jewish schools became some of the first to close because of the encroaching COVID-19 pandemic, a...