(JTA) — Baton Rouge’s newly-opened Chabad House launched an emergency fundraising campaign for thousands of people affected by the massive floods that swept across Louisiana.
At least five people perished and more than 20,000 people have been rescued in Louisiana amid floods...
For Jews worldwide, Tisha B’Av, which literally means “the ninth of [the month of] Av” is the saddest day on the Hebrew calendar. It commemorates the destruction of both the First and the Second Temples that the rabbinic sages tell...
(JTA) – Like a lot of second generation Ashkenazi parents, mine used Yiddish as a secret language when they didn’t want the “kinder” to know what they were talking about.
By ALAN SMASON, Exclusive to the CCJN Theatre Critic, WYES-TV’s “Steppin’ Out“
The time-worn story of Tevye, the simple dairyman, his beleaguered family and the village of Anatevka first told by Shalom Aleichem and transformed into one of Broadway’s biggest...
On Friday evening, August 5, when Matthew A. Reimer ascends the bimah at Temple Sinai, it will be the first Shabbat service over which he will officiate as the synagogue’s new Senior...
While Shaya has received a 2016 James Beard Award and a citation from Esquire as the Best New Restaurant in America, Tal’s Hummus has quietly opened giving Magazine Street its second and, arguably,...
CLEVELAND (JTA) — We’ve caught glimpses of him this week. He gave a three-line speech Monday night. The next day, he addressed the crowd via video feed.
But Thursday night is the real thing: Donald Trump, the...
(JTA) — Nice’s Jewish community will hold Shabbat activities in a spirit of solidarity and defiance after a terrorist killed scores of people in the city in southern France.
A 30-year-old man drove a rented white truck through a crowded promenade in...
Rabbi David Polsky is full of nervous energy these days as he prepares for an unchartered path of new challenges in the Detroit suburbs. While this move will bring him closer to family...
July 4, 1976 may have been the most planned day in American history. For months in advance preparations were made locally, regionally and nationally to make the celebration of the nation’s independence from Great Britain...
