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WhatsApp’s reclusive founder has quietly become a megadonor to Jewish causes

Published June 15, 2022
A Rothschild who debunks conspiracy theories for a living is writing the book about Jewish space lasers

A Rothschild who debunks conspiracy theories for a living is writing the book about Jewish space lasers

Published May 23, 2022
Clockwise from the top: Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images), Rabbi Jill Jacobs (Courtesy Jill Jacobs), Rabbi Angela Buchdahl (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images). Background: Demonstrators gather at the Damascus Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem with flags of Israel during the controversial Flag March, organized by Israeli right-wing nationalists on June 15, 2021. (Ilia Yefimovich/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Rebuffed privately, influential rabbis go public with plea to cut off American Jewish funding of Israeli extremists

Published April 7, 2022
Downtown Chicago, where Morningstar’s headquarters is located, became the site of pro-Palestinian protests, featuring calls to boycott Israel, during last May’s fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas in Gaza. (Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Is finance giant Morningstar boycotting Israel? New BDS battlefront emerges in investing world

Published February 8, 2022
The Luzzatto High Holiday Mahzor (Sothebys)

Medieval Jewish prayerbook sold for $8.3 million, a near-record for Judaica

Published October 20, 2021
British Virgin Islands. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How offshore accounts turned the British Virgin Islands into an east Jerusalem landlord

Published October 19, 2021
A Chabad menorah, distinguished by the diagonal—rather than curved—arms. (Mindy Schauer/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Creator of Chabad’s famous menorah sexually abused girl, lawsuit claims

Published October 12, 2021
Mark and Erica Gerson (Michael Gerson)

Meet the Jewish couple funding Christian missionary hospitals in Africa

Published October 6, 2021
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg attend the 2020 Breakthrough Prize Red Carpet at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California on Nov. 3, 2019. (Ian Tuttle/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize )

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan give $1.3 million to Jewish causes

Published September 20, 2021
A view of the destroyed Karnofsky family building where Louis Armstrong was a regular guest in New Orleans, Louisiana on Aug. 31, 2021. (Alan Smason/Crescent City Jewish News)

Scattered by Hurricane Ida, the Jews of New Orleans prepare for High Holidays

Published September 1, 2021
A view outside Yeshiva University in New York City, March 4th, 2020. (Sharon Pulwer for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

At least 150 sex abuse lawsuits filed against NY Jewish institutions under Child Victims Act

Published August 30, 2021
Israeli Supreme Court rules that Jews of Morocco are ineligible for Holocaust compensation

Israeli Supreme Court rules that Jews of Morocco are ineligible for Holocaust compensation

Published August 27, 2021
Rabbi Mary Zamore, the executive director of the Womens Rabbinic Network (Steve Shawl)

The Reform movement is investigating itself over history of rabbinic sexual misconduct

Published August 11, 2021
Firefighters respond at the scene of a plane crash at a house in Sheparivtsi, Ukraine on July 28, 2021. (Screenshot/YouTube)

4 dead, including 3 Jerusalem yeshiva students, in Ukraine plane crash

Published July 28, 2021
(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Boycott Israel? No, Ben & Jerry’s is boycotting social media.

Published June 16, 2021
The first page of a newly discovered letter written by a passenger of the USS Delaware in 1834, following one of the first American voyages to Palestine. (Courtesy of Kedem Auction House, Jerusalem)

186-year-old letter detailing U.S. diplomatic visit to Holy Land surfaces in auction

Published May 7, 2021
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media in Jerusalem, Aug. 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu backs down on Cabinet appointment of loyalist, averting a constitutional crisis in Israel

Published April 28, 2021
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, shown in December 2019, said we will not allow some vocal residents’ intolerance to drive local government decisions.” (Laura E. Adkins / JTA)

New Jersey town being sued again for discrimination against Orthodox Jews

Published April 28, 2021
A visual representation of the digital cryptocurrency bitcoin. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

The Jewish National Fund’s iconic blue charity box is now accepting bitcoin

Published April 23, 2021
A scanned page of the list of Baghdadi Jewish men exempt from Ottoman military service published by Rabbi Shlomo Bekhor Husin in 1892 and archived at the National Libary of Israel in Jerusalem. (Courtesy of Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch)

Is your name on this list? Your Jewish roots might be in Cairo, Baghdad or nearby.

Published April 19, 2021

Group that ‘elevated white supremacist voices’ should remain on Boston Jewish council for now, internal report says

Published April 14, 2021
An aerial view of American Jewish Universitys Sunny & Isadore Familian Campus in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Communications Department, AJU).

American Jewish University seeks a partner to share its Los Angeles campus

Published April 6, 2021

Students in Arizona, teachers in LA: A Jewish high school plans a post-COVID hybrid future

Published April 2, 2021

NY Times’ Bret Stephens is editing a new Jewish journal, starting with an issue on ‘Jews and social justice’

Published March 24, 2021

Jewlia Eisenberg, musical intellectual and Jewish radical, dies at 50

Published March 15, 2021

This historian is preserving North African Jewish music from a bygone era

Published March 12, 2021

Jews in mourning are finding unexpected comfort in virtual minyans

Published March 3, 2021
Fritz Berggren appears in a holiday video shared by the U.S. Department of Defense in 2018. (Department of Defense)

‘Jewish ideas poison people,’ State Department official writes on Christian nationalist blog

Published February 26, 2021

Israel to spend $50M compensating families of children who disappeared in state’s early years

Published February 24, 2021
Rep. Jim Langevin, left, of Rhode Island greets former Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin at a Ruderman Foundation Inclusion Summit in Boston. (Noam Galai)

Ruderman foundation, main donor to Jewish inclusion efforts, ends its disability giving

Published February 23, 2021
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