The renovation of the Jewish Community Center’s Marilyn Fox Building is underway with significant changes already visible. Those updates will be on display at a donor event on Monday evening, June 24. Construction began on the 26-year-old facility...

Fans of Natalie Portman and the 2019 novel "Lady in the Lake" by New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman will be thrilled to hear that Apple TV+ has released a preview of its forthcoming seven-part limited series based...

Since October 2023, American Jews have been engaged in an intense, fractious debate over Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip. Media reports say that American Jews are experiencing “the great rupture,” widening “rifts,” and stand at a “moral,...

On June 30, Brian Herstig will no longer be Jewish Federation of St. Louis president and CEO. In March, he announced that he was resigning his position so that he and his wife, Barb, and their two young children, could move closer to family in Minnesota.  Herstig,...

A New Jersey high school yearbook’s misprint of a photo of Muslim students in place of its Jewish Student Union “was not purposeful, but rather was a highly unfortunate error,” an independent investigator has concluded.. The controversy at...

(New York Jewish Week) — When anti-Israel activists protested outside a Lower Manhattan exhibition commemorating the victims of the Nova music festival massacre on Oct. 7, they were condemned as antisemitic by some of Israel’s critics as well as its...

Israel will likely get significant airtime next week during the first presidential debate of the 2024 presidential election between President Joe Biden and Donalt Trump. Two Jewish journalists, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, will moderate the matchup,...

Hebrew Union College, the Reform movement’s rabbinical seminary, will begin admitting and ordaining students who are in relationships with non-Jews, following a decision by its board to drop a longstanding ban on interfaith relationships for rabbinical...

A shocking incident in which two teenage boys have been charged with the rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl in a suburb of Paris has sparked a reckoning across France, with Jewish groups taking to the streets to protest rising antisemitism and President...

Workers at Jewish Family Services are trying to form a union, citing a need for improved work conditions and stronger employee protections at the nonprofit social services agency. They are organizing with the Communications Workers of America Local 6400...

As a teen growing up in St. Louis, Laurie Cohen remembers how excited she was when she got to visit family in New York and her uncle would take her to apparel houses in Manhattan’s garment center. There, she would scan the racks of sample dresses, skirts...

Willie Mays was in the prime of his career in 1963, but his finances were a mess. The Giants’ star outfielder had plunged into debt amid divorce proceedings, and even with more than half of his career home runs under his belt, was staring down bankruptcy. Then...