WASHINGTON (JTA) — An array of Jewish groups and lawmakers attacked as immoral President Donald Trump’s decision to end an Obama-era program granting protections to illegal immigrants who arrived in the United States as children.
The Trump administration said Monday that it would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program in six months. President Barack Obama had launched DACA in 2011 after mult
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry is advancing a plan to send $1 million in emergency aid to Houston’s flood-hit Jewish community.
Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett announced the plan Monday, calling it “unprecedented.” His office said the money would go toward repairing and rebuilding local schools, synagogues and Jewish community centers damaged by tropical storm Harvey.
“The Jewish State is measured by its response when our brothers around the...
Jewish New Orleans tour guide Julie Schwartz will lead the second of two tours sponsored by JNola and the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans on Sunday, September 3 with check-in beginning at 9:30 a.m.
The air-conditioned bus tour that runs from 10 a.m -1:00 p.m. is intended to help Jewish residents learn more about the influence of the Jewish community that existed in the city since the days of...
(JTA) — The Jewish community in Houston has seen “devastating” damage from Hurricane Harvey and could take years to recover, a federation official said.
“Recovery like this — it is a disaster larger than Katrina in terms of the amount of water that fell — we’re going to have short- and long-term recovery plans, but this is probably going to take us years to get back to...
On the ignoble anniversaries of the twin landfalls of Hurricanes Katrina and Issac, the New Orleans Jewish community mobilized for action to help rain-soaked sister city Houston recover from record setting floods brought about by Hurricane Harvey.
Harvey retreated into the Gulf of Mexico waters late Monday night from the East Texas coastline where it had dumped nearly nine trillion gallons of water since late Saturday night,...
(JTA) — Dozens of Jewish families in Houston were either evacuated or moved to the second floors of their homes due to flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey, the local Jewish Family Service said.
Some 150 neighborhood blocks in the city that are home to members of the Jewish community have been damaged in floods as part of the hurricane, the JFS said in a conference call with community leaders, the Texas Jewish...
For only the second time in his life, Pontchartrain Astronomy Society president Barry Simon, caught sight of a rare total solar eclipse this past Monday, August 21, and the first totally American eclipse in 99 years.
The last time Simon was able to view this celestial phenomenon was in 1991 while aboard the Carnival Jubilee, a luxury cruise ship with his wife. Plagued by persistent clouds that...
Six members and an additional representative of the East Jefferson Interfaith Clergy Association (EJICA) addressed a crowd of several hundred people at Congregation Beth Israel on Monday, August 21, calling for a unified denunciation of white supremacy and anti-Semitism. The event was organized in the wake of a large-scale white nationalist and neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville, VA, which turned violent and resulted in...
(JTA) — Comedian and filmmaker Jerry Lewis, known for his work with singer-actor Dean Martin and his four decades of hosting the Muscular Dystrophy telethon, has died.
Lewis, best known for his starring role in “The Nutty Professor,” died Sunday morning at his home in Las Vegas, The Las Vegas Review Journal columnist John Katsilometes first reported. He was 91.
Though he was largely out of the movie industry by...
(JTA) — Stephen Bannon, whose advice to President Donald Trump was that “darkness is good,” was thrust out into the light of the sunshiny day enveloping Washington, D.C., on Friday: He is no longer Trump’s strategic adviser.
It’s not clear yet what led to Bannon’s departure. He alone among Trump’s senior advisers favored the president’s decision to blame “many sides” for the violence last weekend when white supremacists...
