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Photo of Barbara Streisand from a 1975 television special Funny Girl to funny Lady. The special was to promote the film Funny Lady. (Public Domain)

Largest known Streisand collection heads to auction

By Benjamin Ivry, The ForwardPublished August 21, 2025

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. For Barbra Streisand fans in search of a metsiya, opportunity has arrived in the form of an auction of what’s being...

A student's illustration of the concept of God's "beyondness," indicated by the Hebrew word l'eilah, from a class in North Carolina about the names of God. (Courtesy of Rebecca Ben-Gideon)

Putting God on the class list: How Jewish educators are getting their students to think about God

By Debra Rubin, JTAPublished August 21, 2025

It’s not easy getting teens to think about God. Even if they go to Jewish day school. When one Jewish educational organization asked day school students in middle school and high school several years ago to respond to the question, “What percentage...

Community leaders from Israel's Gaza envelope area meet with the the CEO of UJA-Federation of New York, Eric Goldstein, third from left, and Itzik Shmuli, the director general of UJA’s Israel office, second from left. (Yarden Cohen)

How American Jews are helping Israel’s communities near Gaza rebuild and return to life

By Larry LuxnerPublished August 21, 2025

KIBBUTZ EREZ, Israel — Under the shade of a large tree on Kibbutz Erez less than a mile from the Gaza Strip, half a dozen Israeli children play history trivia games with a counselor. When loud booms from Gaza echo across the sky, some of the kids...

A view of Yankee Stadium on Sept. 11, 2016. (Christopher Pasatieri/Getty Images)

Yankees take chance on humbled player with antisemitic past

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished August 20, 2025

(JTA) — The New York Yankees drafted a player last month who admitted to having drawn a swastika on a Jewish student’s door as a freshman in college, according to The Athletic. Core Jackson, 21, was drafted by the Yankees following approval from...

Jerusalem dig strikes gold with 2,200-year-old coin

Jerusalem dig strikes gold with 2,200-year-old coin

JNS StaffPublished August 20, 2025

A gold coin dating back about 2,200 years has been uncovered just outside the walled Old City of Jerusalem, shedding new light on the development of the city after the destruction of the first ancient Jewish Temple, the Israel Antiquities Authority...

Crown Heights Bites Back members shoved a Jewish man that attempted to approach their vigil for Gavin Cato on August 19, 2025. (Grace Gilson)

Masked activists spark confrontation at vigil in Crown Heights

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished August 20, 2025

(JTA) — Around 20 masked activists stood on a street corner Tuesday night in Crown Heights, distributing fliers accusing “zionist white supremacists” of murdering a child whose accidental death sparked antisemitic violence in the neighborhood...

The United States Postal Service released a new series of stamps in honor of Elie Wiesel. (USPS)

Finally, a lasting stamp on memory

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished August 19, 2025

(JTA) — The United States Postal Service announced a new series of stamps honoring Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. Wiesel, who died in 2016 at the age of 87, is the 18th person to be honored in the USPS’ Distinguished...

The grave of slain Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg Polin at Har HaMenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem, July 28, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

On yahrzeit of 6 slain hostages, Hamas said to accept ceasefire deal

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished August 19, 2025

(JTA) — Jews around the world are marking a grim date on Tuesday: the first anniversary on the Jewish calendar of when six hostages were murdered by Hamas in captivity, shortly after the collapse of negotiations that would have freed at least some...

A Nazi Germany flag from the collection of the Missouri Historical Society. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Nazi flags found hanging outside Texas high school

JNS STAFFPublished August 18, 2025

(JNS) -- After two Nazi flags were found hanging outside Rockwall-Heath High School in Heath, Texas, early Saturday morning, the local Chabad rabbi called on the community to “continue to display Jewish pride,” according to the Rockwall County Herald-Banner. Rabbi...

The Imperial War Museum in the UK

Museum doubles down on disputed claim Nazis targeted observant Jews

JNS StaffPublished August 18, 2025

(JNS) -- The Imperial War Museum, a British national institution tasked with recording all the United Kingdom’s military conflicts since 1914, has doubled down on an information board that according to critics falsely suggested that the Nazis targeted...

Political activist Laura Loomer stands across from the Women's March 2019 in New York City on January 19, 2019. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)

Trump ally Laura Loomer pressures State Department to suspend Gaza medical visas

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished August 18, 2025

(JTA) — The Department of State has halted a program meant to allow Gazan children who require medical care to receive it in the United States. Laura Loomer, a Jewish provocateur who holds considerable sway in the Trump administration despite...

Demonstrators block Israel's main highway connecting Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, after families of hostages have called for a nationwide strike to demand the return of all hostages and an end to the war in Gaza, in Latrun Israel August 17,2025 REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

Netanyahu says protests harden Hamas, distance hostage release

JNS StaffPublished August 18, 2025

(JNS) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized nationwide anti-government demonstrations on Sunday, saying at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting that the results are the opposite of what they claim to want. “Those who today...

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