It’s not often that a press release announcing a new position for a top Federation affiliate executive comes from his father, but that’s exactly what happened earlier this week. The original email from Mark Mintz, president of...
The Greater New Orleans Section of the National Council of Jewish Women presented a rare President’s Award on Wednesday, June 10, to Vivian Cahn at a socially-distanced Zoom board meeting.
Cahn joins a short list of 15 previous recipients who...
MINNETONKA, MN. (JTA) — When I received a phone call last Saturday morning from the governor and lieutenant governor’s office, I sensed it would be a Shabbat and Shavuot unlike any other.
LOS ANGELES (JTA) – Graffiti on the walls of a synagogue read “Free Palestine” and “f*** Israel.” A statue of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazis, was smeared with anti-Semitic slogans.
(JTA) — A synagogue in Los Angeles was vandalized with graffiti reading “F**k Israel” and “Free Palestine” as protests against the police killing of George Floyd swept the city.
Also Saturday, the window of a synagogue in Richmond, Virginia, was...
NEW YORK (JTA) – Norman Lamm, the prolific author and Modern Orthodox rabbi who headed Yeshiva University for nearly three decades, died Sunday. He was 92.
As president and chancellor of Y.U., Lamm helped rescue the institution from the financial...
Given the interesting times of the coronavirus pandemic, even mundane activities such as installations have taken on more grand stature than they might have enjoyed under less stressful times.
The Greater New Orleans Chapter of Hadassah held its annual installation...
(JTA) — Emma Seligman is trying to stay optimistic.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the 25-year-old came extremely close to fulfilling every film student’s fantasy: having her debut indie film played at coveted festivals and becoming an up-and-coming...
