More than 1,500 potential olim attended New York's annual aliyah “mega event” on Sunday.
The day-long Nefesh B’Nefesh fair, at John Jay College on Mahattan’s West Side, addressed the range of opportunities and challenges …
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By Ed Weintrob
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2/27/17
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Five Towners rooted for a hometown hero last Thursday, as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held its confirmation hearing for ambassador to Israel-designee David Friedman, a Woodsburgh resident. …
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2/24/17
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The book is large and fits comfortably on a lap. The color photographs nearly fill each page. Each image depicts real people doing everyday Jewish things — a young girl eating matzah ball soup; …
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By Lisa Keys, JTA
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2/24/17
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The hate speech trial of a prominent French historian charged with calling Arabs innately anti-Semitic is dividing French Jews and sowing dissent within the local equivalent of the Anti-Defamation …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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2/24/17
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On June 27, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, based in Denver, handed down a decision that would make history a year later when it was upheld by the Supreme Court: Closely held …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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2/24/17
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One-hundred-two members of the Indian Bnei Menashe Jewish community arrived at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport this week, brought on aliyah by Shavei Israel.
The new immigrants all hail …
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2/24/17
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The morning after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first official meeting with President Donald Trump, multiple headlines proclaimed Feb. 16 that the two-state solution—whereby …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/24/17
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He hates it, he really hates it. Now what’s he going to do about it?
President Donald Trump on Tuesday culminated three weeks of missed opportunities to condemn …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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2/24/17
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