(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has failed to form a government by the deadline imposed by Israeli law, thrusting the country into uncertain political territory yet again.
Last year, for the first time in three decades, the Touro Synagogue Jazz Fest Shabbat was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the past year dragged on and the Pfizer, Moderna and...
(JTA) — At least 45 people were crushed to death and at least 150 wounded Thursday night in a stampede during a celebration that drew tens of thousands of haredi Orthodox Jews to the northern Israeli mountain village of Meron.
(JTA) — Over 44 Israelis were declared dead and 150 were wounded, six critically and 18 in serious condition, following a stampede and possible roof collapse at a mass haredi Orthodox celebration for the Jewish holiday of...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Setting his administration’s tone in his first speech to Congress, President Joe Biden said white supremacists posed the “most lethal” terrorist threat to the United States.
Biden on Wednesday said the terrorist threat had evolved and referred...
(JTA) — It was an unusual Academy Awards in several ways.
Forced to adapt to social distancing protocols, the ceremony was split into different venues but mostly took place in Los Angeles’ Union Station. For only the...
The rain did not spoil the National Council of Jewish Women’s (NCJW) annual gala as the committee moved the previously scheduled outdoor elevated drive-in movie experience into the Gates of Prayer Synagogue for a festive night on Saturday, April 17.
Tovah Feldshuh has been one of the leading ladies of the legitimate stage as well as a veritable fixture on the big and small screen for more than four decades. With the publication of “Lilyville,” a biography...
ATLANTA (JTA) — To the end of his life, the civil rights hero and later congressman John Lewis remembered the half-mile walk from his family’s farm in rural Pike County, Alabama, to the Dunn’s Chapel School.
