The St. Louis region is a great metropolitan area. Our many wonderful assets include Forest Park, Washington University, Cortex, the Danforth Plant Science Center, the Fox Theatre, and the St. Louis Symphony, to name a few. We also have a pretty good...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Rabbi Donniel Hartman had some bad news for his audience on the largely liberal Upper West Side: The two-state solution might not be dead, but it’s not imminent either, and most Israelis don’t believe the two-state solution is “implementable...
(JTA) — Last week, Shabbat couldn’t come soon enough for the Anti-Defamation League.On Wednesday, Starbucks announced that the Jewish group’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, seemed to have been demoted from top adviser to a supporting role in the coffee...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — For decades, world Jewry helped Israel. Organizations gathered and sent funds to the feeble, small state; our Air Force and Navy were formed and trained by Jewish volunteers from around the globe.As we celebrate our 70th Independence...
By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
• Published April 26, 2018
That so many Jews care so deeply about what an actress has to say about the State of Israel and its prime minister tells us a lot about Jewish insecurity in 2018. But while this isn’t the earth-shattering event some on both ends of the political spectrum...
Israel at 70 Unity WalkSt. Louis Friends of Israel was pleased to join so many other community organizations and over a thousand individuals on Sunday, April 22 as we all participated in the Unity Walk from Temple Israel to Shaare Emeth, and then continued...
It is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and I am sharing a round table with four African-American women and two white, Jewish teenagers, including my daughter, Sarah. We have joined with many others on this sixth...
A room in United Orthodox Synagogues of Houston that was stripped of its furniture and floors. (Courtesy of United Orthodox Synagogues)HOUSTON (JTA) — Over a four-day period at the end of August, Hurricane Harvey drenched this city with over 50 inches...
University of Michigan students participating in Israel Day 2017. (Samii Stoloff Photography)(JTA) — We are Jewish and pro-Israel students who are active within our Jewish communities on college campuses across North America. Many of us have helped...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Dear Natalie Portman,I was looking forward to seeing you receive your Genesis Prize in our homeland, and disappointed upon hearing the news that you would not travel to Israel to receive what some call the “Jewish Nobel” because...
By Rabbi Avital Hochstein
• Published April 18, 2018
JERUSALEM — Rabbi Donniel Hartman, who lives in Jerusalem yet works regularly in North America, likens Diaspora Jews to grown children who have left their parents’ nest and created their own space and home outside the homeland of the Jewish people.The...
It’s hard to say for sure whether the following fable was really told in the Warsaw Ghetto, but it’s grimly funny enough to warrant repeating.The story goes that at the height of World War II, Winston Churchill consulted with the Hasidic Rabbi of...
