This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Nearly 60 years after the United States outlawed racial and religious discrimination in housing, one group in Arkansas...

(JTA) -- The United States Department of Homeland Security has released security grants for Jewish institutions totaling $94 million to support 512 organizations amid a surge in antisemitic violence, including recent attacks in Washington, D.C., and Boulder,...

In 2019, the Jewish Light introduced Burton Wice along with “Daisee,”  his American Brittany (formerly Brittany spaniels) field champions. Wice, a retired research endocrinologist from Washington University School of Medicine, is one of the few amateurs...

On Wednesday morning, July 9, the vroom of motorcycles will fill the air outside the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. Riders from across the country, members of the Jewish Motorcyclist Alliance (JMA), are expected to arrive around 11 a.m. as...

(JNS) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday expressed support for bringing to justice the rioters allegedly responsible for burning down a military facility and attacking IDF soldiers during overnight protests across southern Samaria’s...

(JTA) — Dozens of Jewish settlers rioted outside of a multi-million dollar security facility in the West Bank Sunday night and set it ablaze in a continuation of far-right settler protests against the IDF in recent days. The violence comes after...

(JTA) — A British punk band called Bob Vylan led thousands of Glastonbury attendees in chanting “Death, death to the IDF” in one of multiple pro-Palestinian sets at the vaunted music festival on Saturday. After the group’s lead singer,...

The brothers of Alpha Epsilon Pi at the University of Missouri are still rocking—and breaking records. AEPi recently wrapped up its 2025 Rock-A-Thon, raising a record-setting $207,000 for pancreatic cancer research through the American Cancer...

Many of us—me included—are fascinated by Yiddish. For the past few years, I’ve celebrated that fascination with a recurring bit I call “Funny Yiddish Things My Bubbe Would Say,” a love letter to the language’s mysticism, humor and bite. But...

On paper they seem an unlikely vocal duo. Some might even call them “Beauty and the Beast.” Yet when Barbra Streisand and Bob Dylan join forces to sing the Ray Noble standard “The Very Thought of You” on Streisand’s brand-new duets album, The...

(JTA) — As the death toll of Gazans around aid distribution sites continues to rise, some Israeli soldiers and officers told the newspaper Haaretz that they are ordered to indiscriminately shoot at people seeking aid as a method of dispersal. According...

(JTA) — Ohr Torah Stone, the Israel-based Modern Orthodox educational organization, rejected claims made by far-right pundit Candace Owens Thursday that the group’s founding rabbi had sought to bribe Christian pastors to criticize her in their sermons. Owens,...