Top US security officials: Colleyville was a ‘terrorist attack on Jewish community’
Top United States security officials told Jewish Americans on a pre-Shabbat call last week that the attack in Colleyville, Texas, was a “terrorist attack...
Tennessee school board removes ‘Maus,’ iconic Holocaust book, from its curriculum
By Philissa Cramer
A Tennessee school board voted unanimously to remove “Maus,” Art Spiegelman’s graphic memoir about his father’s Holocaust experience, from its curriculum after...
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...
Texas hostage crisis was a watershed moment in the livestreaming of American synagogues
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...
‘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...
All Texas synagogue hostages ‘out alive and safe’ after harrowing 12-hour standoff
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...
Onward Israel merges with Birthright to magnify reach
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...
For these Orthodox women, balancing demanding careers with family life is worth the challenges
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...
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, 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...