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ADL gala honors Bissinger-Timm families, Dr. Stephen Hales

By ANGELA MAONE, Special to the CCJN

The Bissinger-Timm families and Dr. Stephen Hales were honored at the annual  A.I. Botnick Torch of Liberty Awards gala of the South Central Region of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The event was held...

Greens give $1M gift to JCDS

Susan and Howard Green have made what is termed the largest donation to the Jewish Community Day School (JCDS) in 15 years, according to an announcement released earlier today. The gift will be administered through the Jewish Endowment Foundation of...

Gantz’s empty mandate may lead back to Bibi

 – History has been made in Israel as, for the first time in a decade, someone other than Benjamin Netanyahu will be tasked with forming a government. Sort of.

On Wednesday, President Reuven Rivlin gave...

National World War II Museum unveils Operation Finale; breaks ground on Liberation Pavilion

By ALAN SMASON

It’s been a busy week at the National World War II Museum as they officially opened the Hall of Democracy and broke ground on the Liberation Pavilion, which will catalog the history of the liberation of the...

National tour of ‘Wicked’ canceled due to hotel collapse

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“)

The partial collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel under construction in New Orleans on Saturday, October 12, sent tons of debris and a crane across the street impacting the historic Saenger Theater...

Succot: Four Conversations

By NICHOLAS HAMBURGER, Exclusive to the CCJN

At sundown on Sunday, October 13, the agricultural festival Succot begins, continuing throughout the week until nightfall on Sunday, October 20. Referred to as “the feast of ingathering” in the Book of Exodus,...

As a gunman loomed outside their synagogue, Jews in Halle kept praying

By REBECCA SPIESS and TOBY AXELROD

HALLE, Germany (JTA) — Just a few days after a deadly neo-Nazi attack here, this city in eastern Germany slowly stirs to life.

On this morning, a woman walks a small dog along the sidewalk,...

Gunman kills two in attack on German synagogue, kebab shop

By RON KAMPEAS

(JTA) — A single gunman opened fire on a synagogue during Yom Kippur services and a kebab shop in Halle, a town in eastern Germany. The shooter reportedly was from the far right.

The masked gunman, identified...

How Pittsburgh changed the way American Jews think about security

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Here’s the sad paradox of the shooting nearly one year ago at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue: The killing of 11 worshippers, the worst attack on Jews in U.S. history, hit a community that was one of...

Inspiring Jews we lost in 5779

By JTA Staff

(JTA) — The close of every year brings with it bittersweet reminders of the incredible figures we lost in the year that was.

This year the task of remembering the departed is particularly fraught as 12 people...