A screenshot from Central Reform Congregation’s High Holidays services shows (clockwise from top left) Rabbi James Stone Goodman, Rabbi Susan Talve, Rabbi Randy Fleisher, Rabbi Daniel Bogard, Rabbi Karen Bogard and Leslie Caplan.
Thousands of New Yorkers convene at the “No Hate. No Fear” solidarity march against anti-Semitism in January 2020. The march followed a year in which attacks against Jews spiked. Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images
Aleeza Granote (at left) and a participant at a card-making event for Card Care Connection at Family Partners Adult Day Services.Granote, a pediatric oncology social worker at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center, founded Card Care Connection,...
NCJW-STL Volunteers Jen Multari (left) and co-chair Stacy Abeles and St. Louis Public Schools Superintendent Kelvin Adams help two boys pick out school supplies during the 10th Annual Back to School Store in 2010 at Central Reform Congregation. Photo:...
Cutting the ribbon at the 2006 Back to School! Store at Central Reform Congregation are (from left) Anna Poger, committee co-chair, Spring Glover (wife of then-St. Louis Rams player La'Roi Glover), Paul Harris of KMOX, and Dana Gaby and Melissa Baris,...
(JTA) — The number of anti-Semitic hate crimes increased significantly in 2019, according to the FBI, in a year that saw three lethal attacks against Jews.Anti-Semitic incidents once again comprised the majority of hate crimes based on religion. In...
(JTA) — Mike Pompeo became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit an Israeli settlement in the West Bank on Thursday.At a news conference in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Pompeo also said that the Trump administration...
Deni Avdija, shown as a member of the Maccabi Tel Aviv team in 2019, on being such a high NBA choice: "I'm still thinking it's a dream." (Seffi Magriso/Euroleague Basketball via Getty Images)
(JTA) — Deni Avdija, the 19-year-old Israeli basketball phenom, was taken by the Washington Wizards with the ninth overall pick of the NBA Draft on Wednesday night – the earliest an Israeli has been picked in league history.Avdija, a lanky 6-9 forward...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Trump White House is throwing an in-person Hanukkah party, one of a series of recent events the administration has held despite coronavirus concerns.The reception will be held Dec. 9 in the afternoon, a day before the holiday’s...
(JTA) — The Palestinian Authority has resumed security and financial ties with Israel, in part because its leaders believe a Biden presidency will bring Palestinians back into the peacemaking fold.Israel will now resume funneling taxes to the Palestinian...
(JTA) — The statement by the University of Illinois pledging to fight anti-Semitism and co-signed by several Jewish organizations left out one crucial piece of information: The federal government had just opened an investigation of the school for anti-Semitic...
