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Author Gabrielle Zevin speaks about her bestseller "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" during the 28th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California on Saturday, April 22, 2023 in Los Angeles.

Chicago bookstore sparks outrage by banning bestselling author’s novel

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished July 23, 2024

“Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” Gabrielle Zevin’s novel about video game designers, has dominated the bestseller list for two years and was recently chosen as one of the New York Times’ best 100 books of the 21st century. But for months...

Can good thoughts heal the heart? This research says yes

Can good thoughts heal the heart? This research says yes

The American Technion Society (ATS), Special To The Jewish LightPublished July 23, 2024

“Stay positive,” we’re told when suffering from an illness. It’s easy to dismiss such comments as platitudes from well-meaning friends. But Technion scientists have demonstrated that activation of the brain’s reward system can boost...

Ariel Yaron (left), Moshe Grimaldi (second from left), Evan Gilder (center) were among five members of a Jewish contingent of Boy Scouts who participated in a CPR rescue aboard a flight to New York on July 11, 2024. (Courtesy Evan Gilder)

These Jewish Boy Scouts saved a man’s life on the flight home from a 100-mile desert trek

Jackie HajdenbergPublished July 23, 2024

(JTA) — Earlier this month, a group of 10 Jewish Boy Scouts hiked more than 100 miles in New Mexico, but the trek wasn’t the most intense part of their trip. That came on the plane ride home, when two of the scouts and their adult staff members saved...

Netanyahu meets with hostage families in DC as pressure mounts for a deal

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished July 23, 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Washington, D.C. with families of Israeli hostages, one of his first stops on a highly anticipated trip to the United States and a sign of how much focus is being placed on talks over a hostage release...

Kamala Harris affixes a kippah to the head of her husband, Douglas Emhoff, as they visit the Western Wall, Jerusalem, November 2017. (Halie Soifer)

Kamala Harris’ backers say she understands Jews and Israel. Her critics fear her stance on Gaza.

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished July 22, 2024

WASHINGTON — Coming down the stairs in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City in 2017, Kamala Harris saw the Western Wall and knew what she had to do. Harris, then a California senator, reached into her pocket and pulled out a blue kippah and...

A campaign for Adidas features supermodel Bella Hadid wearing a reissue of sneakers from the 1972 Munich Olympics. (Photos courtesy of Adidas. Design by Jackie Hajdenberg)

Adidas removes 1972 Olympic sneaker ads, apologizes to Bella Hadid

Jackie HajdenbergPublished July 22, 2024

Amid backlash, Adidas has removed social media ads featuring Palestinian-American model and activist Bella Hadid from its new campaign for a reissue of a sneaker originally designed for the 1972 Munich Olympics, where 11 members of the Israeli team were...

Josh Shapiro

What would a Josh Shapiro vice presidency mean for American Jews and Israel?

By Jacob Kornbluh, The ForwardPublished July 22, 2024

With President Joe Biden’s announcement that he is withdrawing from the presidential race and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, eyes have turned toward Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s Jewish governor, as a possible vice presidential running mate.  Shapiro,...

Teacher allegedly retaliated against Jewish student after Title VI probe

Teacher allegedly retaliated against Jewish student after Title VI probe

JNS STAFFPublished July 22, 2024

A Jewish student in Dallas was subjected to retaliation by a teacher over a U.S. Department of Education probe of the Dallas Independent School District for alleged Title VI violations, according to the nonprofit StandWithUS. When the student, one of...

The crowd erupts in laughter as Bob Newhart begins his show during the 47th Annual Benefit Dinner at Freed-Hardeman University on Dec. 2, 2011

When Bob Newhart was my rabbi — and I was his

By Rabbi Bob AlperPublished July 21, 2024

I’m six months shy of 80 and in two weeks I’ll head from Vermont to Chattanooga, Tennessee, to do 75 minutes of stand-up comedy. Why am I still out there? As Bob Newhart, who died this week at 94, explained, it was worth it to him to take his...

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the San Joaquin Valley Leadership Conference.

What would a Kamala Harris presidency mean for American Jews and Israel

By Jacob Kornbluh, The ForwardPublished July 21, 2024

President Joe Biden announced he is withdrawing from the presidential race after weeks of political jockeying in the wake of a disastrous debate performance and diminishing polling numbers. He has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. Moments later,...

Jewish leaders react to Biden’s decision to quit the race. Two Jewish governors on many VP shortlists

Lauren Markoe, The ForwardPublished July 21, 2024

President Joe Biden said he was quitting the race for president in a letter posted to social media on Sunday, and then tweeted a hearty endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president. The announcement followed a chorus of  calls for Biden...

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at the White House on July 14, 2024 in Washington, DC. Biden was joined by Vice President Kamala Harris. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Joe Biden ends campaign, endorses Kamala Harris, as talks to end Israel-Hamas war enter critical phase

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished July 21, 2024

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, taking off the Democratic presidential ballot one of the country’s longest-serving and staunchest supporters of Israel. If Harris...

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