(JNS.org) – An Israeli soldier was killed during a firefight at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Monday, in part of a targeted raid against Hamas operatives embedded there that also resulted in the elimination of a top terrorist.
The Israel Defense Forces named the slain soldier as Staff Sgt. Matan Vinogradov, 20, from Jerusalem. He is the 250th soldier killed in action since the start of ground...
The Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana (JEF) held its annual fundraiser at the Jerome S. Glazer Audubon Tea Room on Sunday evening, March 10, honoring several members of the local community in the process and acknowledging another successful year of giving and planning.
The JEF’s Tzedakah Award was presented to Richard and Linda Friedman, a couple who have made philanthropy and volunteerism cornerstones of their lives. In...
(JTA) – In the wake of the Oscars, Hollywood has been treated to a rare spectacle: Jewish communal leaders attacking the Jewish director of an award-winning Holocaust movie.
The Anti-Defamation League and an organization representing Holocaust survivors are among those now angry with Jonathan Glazer, the British Jewish filmmaker behind the widely acclaimed drama “The Zone of Interest,” which is set in Auschwitz. During his acceptance speech...
(JTA) – At a recent city council meeting in Evanston, Illinois, a man in dark sunglasses stepped up to the podium during the public comment period to accuse the Anti-Defamation League of stifling free speech.
Wearing a hat with the logo of the neo-Nazi group Goyim Defense League, the man — who claimed to be a local resident — held up what he said was an “ADL...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (JTA) — At the entrance to the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, a large poster depicts a white hand tearing away an UNRWA tent from a Palestinian woman and her children. Next to the image, a caption reads, “UNRWA services are our right until return.”
Below the image of the hand is another of three fists rising in the air: One holds a key,...
(JTA) — Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who was a favorite of pro-Israel Republicans, withdrew from the race for the GOP presidential nomination after losing nearly every Republican state primary thus far by wide margins.
But unlike other candidates in the party who dropped out, Haley did not endorse Donald Trump, the former president and presumptive nominee. She...
TEL AVIV (JTA) — An anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon into Israel on Monday killed one agricultural worker from India and wounded seven, two in serious condition, after landing near the northern Israeli town of Margoliot.
Indian media identified the man who died as Patnibin Maxwell and said he had arrived in Israel just two months ago, leaving behind a pregnant wife and young child.
Throughout her career, Cantor Rebecca Garfein has enjoyed a number of historic firsts. She was the first female cantor at Riverdale Temple in the Bronx. Cantor Garfein was also the first female Senior Cantor at Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York City, the pulpit where she stayed for 23 years. She also was the first female clergy to officiate in Berlin as a...
(JTA) — Comedian Richard Lewis, who parlayed his neurotic Jewish personality and self-deprecating humor into a 50-year career as a standup and actor, died Wednesday. He was 76.
Lewis had been in ill health for a number of years and last April announced that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease two years earlier. Although he considered himself retired as a standup, he appeared again as a regular...
By ANDREW ESENSTEN and SHOSHANA McKINNEY KIRYA-ZIRABA
(J. Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — As a student at London’s Royal Academy of Music in the late 2000s, Jenni Asher lived across the street from the city’s Central Synagogue. She was not Jewish at the time, but she was feeling angst over the direction that her spiritual home, the Worldwide Church of God, was headed. So after church services,...
