(JTA) — A Knesset committee voted to discipline an Arab-Israeli lawmaker because he is taking part in a flotilla seeking to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza.
In a 10-2 vote, the House Committee voted Tuesday to suspend Basel Ghattas, a...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (JTA) — The unspeakable murder of nine accomplished, beloved and respected African-American Charlestonians of faith in their own church on Wednesday has hit our city like an earthquake.
(JTA) — Dylann Roof, the alleged Charleston church gunman, said in a racial manifesto that the Jewish “problem” would be solved “if we could somehow destroy the Jewish identity.”
Roof, 21, who has been charged with killing nine worshipers last...
(JTA) — The family of a Jewish woman who sold a valuable painting under duress while fleeing the Nazis has appealed a decision by a U.S. judge allowing a museum in Spain to maintain possession.
(JTA) – The Georgia Historical Society dedicated a marker posthumously honoring the governor who commuted the death sentence of accused murderer Leo Frank.
The June 17 ceremony on the grounds of the Atlanta History Center occurred four days prior to...
Katrina’s Jewish Voices, an oral and video history catalogued and maintained by the Jewish Women’s Archive (JWA), has recently been relaunched. In commemoration of the JWA’s ongoing mission of promoting the roles of women during the recovery...
Saturday a.m. in shul. Only 9:30 and already my eyes were tired. I rested them for a minute and thought of Yossi the puppet-maker. Surely, you could say with accuracy that Jewish...
