(JTA) — When he announced the impending release of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander earlier this week, President Donald Trump posted, “Hopefully this is the first of those final steps necessary to end this brutal conflict. I look...
(JTA) — President Donald Trump and Hamas have announced that Edan Alexander, the only U.S. citizen among the living hostages remaining in Gaza, will go free after the Trump administration negotiated his release.
(JNS.org) – Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69, a Chicago native with New Orleans roots, was elected as the new pope of the Catholic Church on Thursday. He will be called Leo XIV.
(JTA) — Cardinal Robert Prevost, who was just elected as Pope Leo XIV, studied under a pioneer in Jewish-Catholic relations when he attended seminary in Chicago.
The Rev. John T. Pawlikowski, who taught for nearly half a...
(JTA) — Police arrested more than 70 pro-Palestinian protesters who crowded and occupied the main library of Columbia University, thrusting the New York City campus back into the center of campus tensions over Gaza.
The New Orleans Jewish community expressed solidarity with the nation of Israel with two special evenng events this week, a showing of the film “October 8th” on Tuesday and a subdued Yom Ha’Atzmaut...
(JNS.org) – Israel ushered in its 77th Independence Day at sunset on Wednesday night, with nightly celebrations canceled or postponed throughout the country as massive wildfires continued to engulf the Jewish state.
The Jerusalem torch-lighting ceremony that traditionally marks the start...
