WASHINGTON—For the Jews of Cuba, it was the ultimate Internet connection. The high-tech equipment that U.S. contractor Alan Gross brought with him to Cuba in 2009 to help connect local Jews to the Internet reportedly included a SIM card that makes it...
WASHINGTON -- Jewish groups praised the Obama administration and Congress for $10 million in new homeland security grants, while noting that it was almost half of last year's allocation. "While tough decisions were made by Congress and the Administration,...
WASHINGTON -- Jewish organizations are expressing concerns at cost-cutting proposals in President Obama's $3.8 trillion budget for 2013. The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and The Jewish Federations of North America released statements...
WASHINGTON -- Two national Jewish organizations criticized a provision in the Obama administration's federal budget proposal that would reduce the tax deductibility rate of charitable donations. The president's proposal would force taxpayers earning more...
WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and top U.S. security officials told Jewish community leaders there is no imminent threat of an attack on Jewish targets in the United States. "Officials on the call said government and security...
WASHINGTON -- The Jewish Federations of North America commended the Obama administration for maintaining the deductibility rate of charitable donations. In a Feb. 6 news release, the JFNA said that it wrote a Jan. 30 letter to White House Chief of...
JERUSALEM -- Seventy-one Ethiopians arrived in Israel accompanied by lay leaders from the Jewish Federations of North America. After landing Thursday at Ben Gurion Airport, the new immigrants and the delegation of leaders were taken to an absorption center...
WASHINGTON -- Jewish federation officials excoriated a top Israeli official for reports of official discrimination against women and for a law targeting NGOs. The official spoke in a conference call with constituents of the Jewish Federations of North...
More than 6 million Jews are living in the United States, according to two independent studies. The two studies, using completely different methodology, discovered between 6.4 million and 6.6 million U.S. Jews, or about 1.8 percent of the population,...
By Rabbi Sid Schwarz, JTA
• Published January 13, 2012
WASHINGTON -- About a year and half ago, I participated in a fact-finding mission to Israel sponsored by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arabs (IATF). Established in 2006 as a consortium of some of the major organizations in American Jewish life...
By Jacob Kamaras, JointMedia News Service
• Published December 28, 2011
Before getting married, Randy and Caroline Gold did "everything right," Randy recalls. They proactively asked both of their doctors to test them for Jewish genetic diseases. The problem was, Randy was tested for just two diseases, and Caroline for those...
By Uriel Heilman, JTA, NEW YORK
• Published December 7, 2011
A few different sparks led to last week's flare-up over a two-month-old Israeli ad campaign to lure home expatriates in the United States. An ad suggesting that a child of Israelis living in America would mistake Chanukah for Christmas. The claim by an...
