(JTA) — The installation stretches across the entire plaza outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art — a table for 200, pristinely set for Shabbat yet searingly empty.
The high chairs at a handful of seats, the children’s cups in other settings and the...
(JTA) — A group of 19 current and former Jewish MLB players and coaches urged fans to stand in support of Israel and combat antisemitism in a video released Thursday by Israel’s baseball team.
Almost all of the participants — including current...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden delivered a rare Oval Office address asking Americans to back assistance to Israel and Ukraine in the name of preserving democracy across the globe.
“We’re facing an inflection point in history,” Biden...
(JTA) – A Jewish man in metropolitan Detroit was arrested and charged with making a terroristic threat Saturday after allegedly asking on social media if anyone wanted to help him “go to Dearborn & hunt Palestinians.”
The reported remark...
(JTA) — Ian Kinsler, the Jewish former MLB All-Star and Team Israel manager, wore a Team Israel jersey while throwing out the first pitch of the playoff game between the Texas Rangers and the Houston Astros on Wednesday night.
As both a player...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — For more than a week, Herbert Block’s phone has been buzzing nonstop with messages from people he doesn’t know who want to give him money.
He doesn’t mind the unsolicited callers, all of whom are asking the same thing:...
(JTA) — President Joe Biden secured an agreement from Israel to allow the transfer of humanitarian assistance into the Gaza Strip during his visit to Israel on Wednesday and said the United States would provide $100 million in humanitarian to the Palestinians.
“Based...
(JTA) — Unknown perpetrators threw two Molotov cocktails at a Berlin synagogue early on Wednesday morning, leading German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to declare that “antisemitism has no place in Germany.”
“We will never accept when attacks are...
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA
• Published October 17, 2023
(JTA) — Before he paid his respects at the funeral of Wadea al-Fayoume, the 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy stabbed to death in what police are calling a hate crime, Rabbi Ari Hart called the officiants of the funeral to make sure his presence would...
(JTA) — Israel has concluded that an explosion at a Gaza City hospital that reportedly killed hundreds of people was the result of an errant rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terror group in Gaza.
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority both...
Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld
• Published October 17, 2023
This piece originally appeared as a letter to the Hebrew College community.
(JTA) — Like so many others, I spent much of last week searching for language to describe and respond to the new reality in which we find ourselves. As Israeli novelist...
Ron Kampeas and The Jewish Light Staff, JTA
• Published October 17, 2023
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Last year, American Jews again faced far more hate crimes than members of other religions, according to a report by the FBI.
There were 1,305 offenses committed against Jews in 2022, the FBI reported in its tally Monday of national...
