Fighting is underway between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters along the Israel-Lebanon border.
What is yet unclear: How many will fight, how long they will stay there, how many people will be killed and whether the blazing conflict between Hezbollah...
It’s been days since Hurricane Helene struck her community, and the CEO of Jewish Greenville still doesn’t know who is OK and who still needs help.
“It’s very much a crisis situation for many people here,” Courtney Tessler told the Jewish...
Rachel Tara Goldberg, August 11, 1988 to September 30, 2024
After a two- year battle with Inflammatory Breast Cancer, Rachel passed away peacefully with her parents by her side. She is survived by her beloved mother Linda Dembo (Dr. Phil) and beloved...
Judge Melvyn W. Wiesman passed away on September 30, 2024 at the age of 85. He passed peacefully surrounded by his loving wife of 61 years Marcia (Polinsky), his son Mark Wiesman (Kathy), his daughter Michelle Beilenson (Larry), and grandchildren...
Keren R. McGinity, JTA
• Published September 30, 2024
As a gender historian and scholar of intermarriage, I binge-watched the new Netflix series “Nobody Wants This” with a combination of foreboding and optimism.
Depictions of romances between Jewish men and Christian women have been ubiquitous in...
Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, in an airstrike in Beirut Friday, the latest Israeli assassination of a terror group leader and a pivotal development in the escalating conflict on Israel’s northern border.
For three decades,...
WASHINGTON — Laura Loomer, the far-right Jewish activist who has grown close to Donald Trump, portrays herself as a courageous voice willing to speak out against those who wish harm to the Jewish people.
She has also, in recent years, been embraced...
Rabbi Burton Zeffren (Rav Binyomin Mordechai) passed away September 24, 2024 in Brooklyn, NY at the age of 91. Born in St. Louis in 1933 to the late Israel and Jean Zeffren. Brother of the late Dr. J. Lester Zeffren and beloved Uncle to Jacob (Yak), Dov,...
Elaine S. Levy passed away on September 22, 2024 at the age of 90.
Elaine lived a long, prosperous, and rewarding life. She met her beloved late husband, Jerome (Jerry) on a blind date upon his return from the Korean War, the man who would be her...
Shira Li Bartov, JTA
• Published September 26, 2024
“Nobody Wants This,” a rom-com Netflix series starring Adam Brody as a charming Los Angeles rabbi who falls for a blond, agnostic sex and dating podcaster played by Kristen Bell, is based on a true story — kind of.
Erin Foster, the creator of...
Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah have intensified after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a ceasefire proposal led by the United States and France. Netanyahu confirmed that military operations on Israel’s northern border and Lebanon...
Rita Harris, September 24, 2024
Beloved wife of the late Allen Irl Harris; dearest mother of Tricia Bastean (Michael); loving grandmother of Ryan and Kyle Bastean; dear sister of Dennis Wolff (Francie); dear aunt, cousin, and friend to many.
Rita graduated...
