It’s time for a mid-January check-in. How are you doing on your New Year’s resolutions? I have a perfect track record for the first time in my life. That’s because my 2022 resolution was to no longer make New Year’s resolutions. I outsmarted the...
(JTA) — When I turned on my phone after Shabbat last Saturday night and read about the unfolding hostage crisis at Congregation Beth Israel in Texas, I was immediately transported to my encounter the previous evening with the unhoused man who appeared,...
Ralph Hugo Grosberg, January 20, 2022
Beloved husband of Shirley Sanders Grosberg for 70 years. Dear father of Bradley (Philip Kean) Grosberg, Karen (Sandon) Wool and the late Patricia Grosberg. Loving grandfather of Shane (Jill) Wool, Matthew (Laura)...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Top United States security officials told Jewish Americans on a pre-Shabbat call that the attack last Saturday in Colleyville, Texas, was a “terrorist attack on the Jewish community” and that authorities are continuing...
MOLLY LEVINE, Junior, Marquette High School
• January 21, 2022
For children, hospital stays often can be not only scary but also mundane. With hours of time to fill and a lack of engaging activities, children in hospitals are eager to find something new and entertaining to do from their rooms.
Tamar Adler, a...
ANN ARBOR, Michigan (JTA) – For 18 years, a group of protesters has gathered every Saturday outside one of this city’s synagogues during Shabbat morning services, brandishing signs with slogans such as “Jewish Power Corrupts.”
This week, the...
(JTA) — In a unanimous vote, the United Nations General Assembly has for the second time passed a resolution condemning Holocaust denial.
The resolution, coauthored by 71 countries including Israel, the United States and Germany, passed without...
(JTA) — A new parliamentary report on the 2017 murder of a Jewish woman by a Muslim attacker was meant to restore French Jews’ faith in their country’s police and justice systems.
Instead, the report released last week has added fuel to the fire,...
(JTA) — Settlers from a West Bank outpost that Israel does not sanction attacked human rights activists assisting Palestinian farmers in planting trees, amid an intensification of such attacks.
The settlers were armed with batons, rocks. and incendiary...
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — A woman who allegedly told three Jewish children in Brooklyn last week, “Hitler should have killed you all,” was arrested by the NYPD on Friday.
Christina Darling, 21, is facing hate crime charges, among others,...
ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• January 21, 2022
At 82, I’m dealing with the harsh reality of illness and death striking down relatives and friends. Add to this the relentless news of the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, the cloud of sadness can envelop the soul.
One thing we can...
(JTA) — U.S. Jewish groups slammed a top Presbyterian Church official for Martin Luther King Day remarks that equated Israel’s West Bank occupation with slavery and implied that American Jews have the influence to get the U.S. government...
