(JTA) — How do you celebrate Thanksgiving during a pandemic?
The medical, financial, social and emotional challenges, coupled with the stresses we are experiencing within civil society, have made this a hard time to focus on our...
(JTA) — Tony Blinken, President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for secretary of state, is the stepson of a Holocaust survivor whose stories shaped his worldview and subsequently his policy decisions, including in the Middle East.
By most measures, 2020 has proven to be a very bad year for New Orleans in general. With the current COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on local business, authorities warned a number of family-owned businesses...
(JTA) — The number of anti-Semitic hate crimes in the United States increased significantly in 2019, according to the FBI, in a year that saw three lethal attacks against Jews.
Anti-Semitic incidents again comprised the majority of...
(JNS.org) – As President-elect Joe Biden forms his upcoming administration, certain positions should spark interest in the Jewish and pro-Israel community. Whoever is nominated would likely signal the direction that the next White House would take on...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — On Joe Biden’s first day as president, he plans to launch a task force to reunite children and parents separated at the country’s southern border.
Pennsylvania, the historic seat of independence during the Revolutionary War and the site of the Constitutional Convention, became the deciding factor in the 2020 election when its 20 electors were declared in the Joseph Biden camp, effectively...
(JTA) — As Pennsylvania counts its votes with the nation watching anxiously, the person in charge of making sure the ballots are tallied is an official once described as someone out of a “bar mitzvah photo.”
PITTSBURGH (JTA) — American Jews woke up on Wednesday to a presidential election that is extending their anxiety and to electoral maps that show a Republican Party changed by a president they repudiated with their votes.
(JNS.org) – No matter who wins the U.S. presidential elections on Nov. 3, they will immediately be confronted by Iran, which has been one of the United State’s most challenging foreign-policy issues for decades.
