The ninth annual Jewish Children’s Regional Service (JCRS) gala with a “Roots” theme turned out to to be both an opportunity to honor its benefactors and the recipients of its largesse.
LOS ANGELES (JTA) – Kirk Douglas, the legendary actor who portrayed legions of tough guys and embraced his Jewish heritage later in life, died at his home in Beverly Hills on Wednesday. He was 103.
Martin Baranek, a man who survived two death marches and internment at several death camps during the Holocaust and who later went on to become a fighter for Israeli independence, was the keynote...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — “Jared Kushner,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu solemnly intoned to the young man whose bed he once borrowed, “without your wisdom, your persistence, your resolve, this day would have never come.”
Laura Zucker is a Harvard-educated family practice physician who lives in Boston and is a member of the medical faculty at Tufts University, but currently happens to be in New Orleans for the very first time. While...
(JNS.org) – Jerusalem: It’s a city that stops everything for a minute each May for Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day, remembering those who perished, as well as those who barely escaped with their lives. But on Thursday,...
Rabbi Yonah Schiller, the executive director of Tulane Hillel since 2008, will be leaving the university at the end of the current fiscal year at the end of June, according to a letter from Steve Stern, the...
(JNS.org) – Protesters gathered outside Amirkabir University in Tehran on Saturday night, shouting “Khamenei is over” and calling the government “shameless” after Iran admitted that its forces had shot down a civilian airliner, killing 176 people, and then lied about...
With the rash of anti-Semitic attacks in New York and questions about the security of the New Orleans Jewish community, Arnie Fielkow, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans, and Aaron...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Iran fired ballistic missiles at U.S. military targets in Iraq in retaliation for the killing last week of top general and warned that if the United States escalates, Iran’s next targets would be U.S. allies including Israel.
