Saturday, April 20th 2019
By JONATHAN S. TOBIN
(JNS.org) — For those who worry about the future of American Jewry, Passover is always a hopeful moment. It remains the holiday that is observed by the bulk of Jews, including a great many of those who are not in any way observant.
According to a survey published in 2014 by the Pew Research Center, 70 percent of Americans who identify as Jewish attend a Passover seder. That’s far more than those who fast on Yom Kippur (53 percent), light Sabbath candles, attend religious services or keep kosher. The numbers are even significant for those that Pew...
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By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN and LAURA E. ADKINS
NEW YORK (JTA) — Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report about Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election was released to Congress and the public Thursday, adding new details to what had been disclosed about its findings by Attorney General William Barr when Mueller concluded his...
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashed while attempting to land on the surface of the moon.
“If at first you don’t succeed, try again,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said from SpaceIL’s control room in Yehud, in central Israel, on Thursday. He vowed that Israel would attempt the moon...
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For the first time in some time, the New Orleans Jewish Community Center is fielding a team of more than a dozen players for the Maccabi Games being held in Detroit, August 4 – 9.
JCC sports director, assistant camp...
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(JTA) — Pete Buttigieg has a word he likes to use to describe Vice President Mike Pence: “Pharisee.”
Jewish scholars would like him to stop doing that.
Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, running a dark horse campaign...
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(TPS) — Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin on Monday will begin consultations with the political parties that were elected in last week’s elections to the Knesset.
Once Rivlin receives the official results of the elections from Judge Hanan Melcer, the chairman...
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LOUIS “LOU” ALAN RIPPNER, a giant in the local furniture business for more than five decades and a leader in the local Jewish community, passed away in South Florida, the place to where he had retired, on Tuesday, April 16,...
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By RUTH ELLEN GRUBER
BUDAPEST (JTA) – Architecture and built heritage can be powerful symbols.
Notre-Dame de Paris is one of the most famous and familiar buildings in the world, visited by an astonishing 30,000 people a day, or 13 million...
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