How the Jewish world is responding to Ben & Jerry’s decision to exit Israeli...
By JTA Staff
Kosher supermarkets are rethinking their inventory. Politicians are emptying their freezers. And the foreign minister of Israel is vowing to get involved...
This is the secret to how Israel’s leading technology institute manages to drive so...
By Renee Ghert-Zand
In the century or so since its founding as Israel’s first university, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has acquired a reputation as...
No more ‘bar’ mitzvah: Synagogues changing ways to support LGBTQ youth
By Stewart Ain
Over the last year, no fewer than five young people came out publicly as LGBTQ at the Society for the Advancement of...
Youth groups transition to in-person programming
For teens, the pandemic has created and added to anxiety and social isolation. One thing that may help is youth group programming, brought to...
Some Israelis are still traumatized 2 months after the deadly violence between Arabs and...
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Given the torrent of news developments in Israel since its brief war with Hamas in May — a new prime minister and...
With merger, Baltimore is set to become a center of Jewish environmental work
By Rudy Malcom
Baltimore is poised to become a national leader in the Jewish outdoor food, farming and environmental education movement.
On July 8, the Pearlstone...
Jewish groups send letter to Johns Hopkins demanding more action over antisemitism allegations
A July 9 letter addressed to administrators of Johns Hopkins University is demanding new action be taken some eight months after a Johns Hopkins...
Headstones in Jewish cemetery spray painted with antisemitic graffiti
Earlier this month, visitors to the Jewish cemeteries on German Hill Road near Dundalk came across an unwelcome sight: headstones spray painted with antisemitic...
Economic recovery brings challenges, opportunities
The American economy has been on a roller coaster ride over the past 12 months, said Jeremy Schwartz, associate professor of economics at Loyola...
British Jews to get apology 800 years after antisemitic laws that led to their...
By Philissa Cramer
British Jewish leaders say an anticipated apology from the Church of England for antisemitic laws enacted in 1222 is “better late than...