(JTA) — The bestselling author Sally Rooney said she decided not to publish her latest novel with an Israeli publishing house because she supports a boycott of Israel, but added that a non-Israeli press could still publish the...
Dr. David Weill, the author of “Exhale,” a best-selling non-fiction autobiographical work, will be the guest speaker tonight at the Jewish Community Center at 7:00 p.m
The former director of the Center for Advanced Lung Disease and the Lung Transplant...
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“)
Because she was played on screen by Barbra Streisand and because her last name appears to have Jewish origins, the brazen character of Dolly Levi has been mistakenly taken by some as...
(JTA) — When Elana Johnson was shopping for a synagogue three years ago, the mother of four approached a Conservative congregation in Lincoln, Nebraska, to ask about joining.
For most synagogues, such an inquiry would have been...
PITTSBURGH (Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via JTA) — Tahara, the act of washing and purifying the deceased, is paramount to Jewish burial. So when the pandemic descended on the United States in March 2020, members of a Pittsburgh-based...
(JTA) — When Rivka Taub Rivera decided to apply for a religious exemption to New York City’s vaccine mandate for teachers, she didn’t turn to the rabbis of Borough Park, the Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn where she...
(JTA) — Eighty years ago, a ravine in the north of what is now Ukraine’s capital city turned into a bloodbath as Nazis, aided by local collaborators, shot tens of thousands of Jews to death.
Ever since comic books became vehicles for artistic expression, Jews have been at the forefront of its genesis and been responsible for creating the most popular and wildly successful franchises that have earned...
NEW YORK (JTA) — The first thing Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said, facing a room full of the leaders of the American Jewish community: “I wish my mom were here.”
(JTA) — In his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett addressed the twin threats of Iran and the coronavirus, in keeping with his quest for a relationship with the international...
