(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...
Jewish community members are invited to attend a community-wide memorial service for James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, the three “Freedom Riders,” who were killed on the night of June 21, 1964.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Actor Michael Douglas credited his son and celebrity father for helping him reconnect to Judaism as he accepted the Genesis Prize, “the Jewish Nobel,” in Jerusalem.
Douglas, an Academy Award winner, accepted the $1 million award on...
LOS ANGELES (JTA) – Conflict between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East now appears a permanent condition, but it didn’t have to be that way, according to a one-hour PBS special premiering on June 30.
