Damage to an imitation Torah triggers real mourning — and questions
Bennett Pittel bore the tiny imitation Torah, its pages creased and unraveled from the wood-colored plastic rollers, on a yellow dish rag.
Pittel’s brothers in...
Eradicate Hate summit concludes, but work has just begun
By Toby Tabachnick and Adam Reinherz
The Eradicate Hate Global Summit brought more than 100 experts from an array of disciplines to Pittsburgh last week...
New study from Hillel and ADL finds a third of students on campus experienced...
By Philissa Cramer
A third of Jewish college students say they have personally experienced antisemitism in the last year, according to a new survey conducted...
Colin Powell, who brokered the Middle East ‘road map’ to peace, dies at 84
Colin Powell will be remembered in history as the first Black U.S. national security advisor, the first Black military chief of staff and the...
With Yair Lapid at his side, Blinken uses a word that Israel has been...
Yair Lapid got what he wanted out of his Washington visit: the word “every,” instead of “other.”
During Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s first meeting...
For Orthodox Jews, WhatsApp outage highlighted community infrastructure
By Julia Gergely and Shira Hanau
Asher Lovy was expecting a flood of notifications on the morning of Oct. 4 when he posted information about...
Impossible Pork is here, but it won’t be certified as kosher
By Jacob Gurvis
Impossible Foods, the plant-based meat company, is releasing a long-awaited new product — but unlike the wildly popular Impossible Burger, it won’t...
The 2021 Supreme Court’s Jewish issues: Abortion, church-state separation, a painting stolen by Nazis...
The Supreme Court opened a new session of cases this week, and an array of them affect Jewish life in the United States.
But there...
Israeli PM to American Jewish leaders: ‘We have to redesign our relationship’
The first thing Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said, facing a room full of the leaders of the American Jewish community: “I wish my...
New traditions make Yom Kippur safer for Jews with eating disorders
By Ella Rockart
Shonna Levin is an Orthodox Jew, but this year, she wasn’t planning on spending Yom Kippur in a synagogue.
The Brooklyn activist had...
