(JTA) — Nearly all Reform Jewish summer camps, and at least one Conservative camp, will remain closed for the 2020 summer due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has learned.
JERUSALEM (TPS) – Israel applauded the German Federal Government’s “important decision” on Thursday to ban the Hezbollah terrorist organization in its entirety and take action against the group’s activity in Germany.
(JNS) – Israel mourned its 23,816 fallen soldiers as Remembrance Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism (Yom Hazikaron) was held, for the first time, without visitors at military cemeteries across the country due to restrictions...
During this time of the coronavirus pandemic, many aspects of what had previously been viewed as normal Jewish communal life have undergone change. As with the living, many practices concerning the dead have...
(JTA) — For more than three decades, thousands of teenagers from dozens of countries have trekked each April to Auschwitz to learn about the horrors of the Holocaust.
This year, they’re staying home. With the coronavirus pandemic...
Because of the stay-at-home mandates during the current coronavirus pandemic, the New Orleans Holocaust Memorial Committee, charged with the presentation of the annual Yom Hashoah Community-Wide Memorial event, will shift the focus from Holocaust Memorial Day to a Kristallnacht program...
While the Reform rabbinate and congregations have been easily able to conform to the technical opportunities of using the Internet to live stream, computers and smartphones to access web sites and to share content and applications like...
With the spread of the coronavirus throughout the New Orleans area keeping most people sequestered in their homes, all of the local synagogues are closed and all in-house services are cancelled as...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator who became the first Jewish front-runner in a major party nomination race for president, is suspending his campaign.
In a message Wednesday to his followers, Sanders said the priority...
