This afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will speak before a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress in Washington, D.C., more than nine months into the Israel-Hamas war and at a time of political uncertainty in both the United States and...
In a 1974 novel by the Jewish writer Wallace Markfield, a character quips, “The time is at hand when the wearing of prayer shawl and skullcap will not bar a man from the White House — unless, of course, the man is Jewish.”
The joke sounded...
“Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” Gabrielle Zevin’s novel about video game designers, has dominated the bestseller list for two years and was recently chosen as one of the New York Times’ best 100 books of the 21st century. But for months...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Washington, D.C. with families of Israeli hostages, one of his first stops on a highly anticipated trip to the United States and a sign of how much focus is being placed on talks over a hostage release...
Eleanor “Letty” Serkes Schainblatt passed away peacefully on July 20, 2024, at the age of 94.
Beloved wife of the late Julius “Juby” Schainblatt. Loving mother of Ellen Kortum, Merry Schainblatt and the late Cathy Schainblatt. Dear...
Harvey Gershenson, July 21, 2024
Beloved husband of the late Audrey Nissenholtz Gershenson for more than 70 years; dear father and father-in-law of Shelley Sarver (Jay), Dean Gershenson (Debbie), the late Bradley Gershenson (Michelle Bowers), Mark...
WASHINGTON — Coming down the stairs in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City in 2017, Kamala Harris saw the Western Wall and knew what she had to do.
Harris, then a California senator, reached into her pocket and pulled out a blue kippah and...
Amid backlash, Adidas has removed social media ads featuring Palestinian-American model and activist Bella Hadid from its new campaign for a reissue of a sneaker originally designed for the 1972 Munich Olympics, where 11 members of the Israeli team were...
Ronald S. Sandler born 12/25/1933. Surrounded by family, Ronald Sandler passed away peacefully on July 19, 2024.
Beloved Husband of more than 66 years to the late JoAnn Sandler. Loving father of Brad Sandler and Linda (Pearl) Sandler, Mark...
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, taking off the Democratic presidential ballot one of the country’s longest-serving and staunchest supporters of Israel.
If Harris...
If there is one story that defines Joe Biden’s relationship with Israel, it is the famous Golda Meir anecdote.
At an Israeli embassy Independence Day bash in 2015, the then-vice president told the story he had been telling for 42 years.
He was a neophyte...
(JTA) — When she was 14 years old, Elke Bentley could hear her father’s online Talmud classes through the wall between her bedroom and his home office in Brookline, Massachusetts. The 5 a.m. start time for the daily Talmud learning her father had...
