At this moment, it looks as if President Trump will sign another six-month waiver maintaining the U.S. embassy in Israel in Tel Aviv. However, he will also formally recognize West Jerusalem as the capital of the...
Well, it is that time of year again. No, not Chanukah or Christmas, but the Jerusalem Embassy Act waiver deadline! It comes around every six months and was a rather quiet affair—until the presidency of Donald...
Over the course of the last several days, several more of American society’s heroes have fallen. Matt Lauer, a morning staple for the past two decades from whom I received most of my news with my first...
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Leaders of North America’s Jewish federation movement kicked off their annual conference here Sunday with a tribute to the 1987 march on Washington that brought out hundreds of thousands of people in support...
By ALAN SMASON, CCJN Editor The latest news of the shootings in the First Baptist Church in Shurland Springs, Texas is just numbing. It has gotten to the point now where this ongoing cycle of gun violence has made...
Many of you may have seen the aged photo taken 100 years ago that shows blurry and shadowy figures cheering the announcement of the Balfour Declaration at the former Congregation Beth Israel.
NEW YORK (JTA) — If a woman called the JTA office and said she wanted to tell her story of sexual harassment by a prominent community figure, we’d have questions. Would she put her name to the...
(JTA) — Here we go again: The issue of how and why the United States should engage with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is back in the news.
NEW YORK (JTA) — When I read the headline of Jenny Listman’s Medium piece — “When I was nineteen years old, Elie Wiesel grabbed my a**” — I decided not to click on it.
