Flags of member nations flying in front of United Nations headquarters n New York, Sept. 25, 2015. (Michael Gottschalk/Photothek via Getty Images)NEW YORK (JTA) — The United Nations will for the first time recognize Yom Kippur as an official holiday.Starting...
Michael Wyschogrod. (Screenshot from YouTube)(JTA) — Michael Wyschogrod, an influential German-born Jewish philosophy professor and theologian has died at 87.Wyschogrod died on Thursday in Boston, H-Judaic, an email group for Jewish studies professors,...
(JTA) – Brandeis University announced Thursday that its next president will be Ronald Liebowitz, the former president of Middlebury College.Though he won’t start until next July, Liebowitz shared some of his ideas about the challenges he faces in...
(JTA) – A Florida university is moving to fire a professor after the parents of the Jewish boy killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting accused him of harassment.Florida Atlantic University told James Tracy on Wednesday that he is being recommended...
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah speaking at a rally in Beirut, Lebanon, Sept. 22, 2006. (Salah Malkawi/Getty Images)WASHINGTON (JTA) — Legislation targeting the financing of Hezbollah passed both houses of Congress.The House of Representatives...
(JTA) — Bernie Sanders referenced the Holocaust and condemned Republican candidate Donald Trump’s “anti-Muslim rhetoric and hatred” in a visit to a Washington mosque.Sanders, the Democratic presidential hopeful and Vermont senator, participated...
When I was a new dad, I would sing my favorite Frank Sinatra melodies to get my boys to sleep — “Fly Me to the Moon” for the older one, “Time After Time” for the younger guy.Occasionally, in the midst of those lovely fatherly moments, I couldn’t...
(JTA) — Adam Sandler criticized Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters and movement to boycott Israel in an appearance on the Howard Stern Show.“I’m disgusted they single out Israel,” Sandler said Tuesday on Stern’s Sirius satellite radio show....
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Newly issued guidelines call for paramedics at the scene of a terrorist attack to triage the wounded according to the severity of the injury, even if that means treating a terrorist first.The guidelines, which were drafted by the Israel...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Congress is set to consider an omnibus spending bill that includes $20 million of security funding for non-profit institutions, the largest amount since 2007.Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives,...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Three Israeli soldiers who interrupted a Palestinian news reporter during a broadcast from the West Bank were punished by the military.The soldiers were ordered confined to their military base for 14 days after a video of their antics...
(JTA) — Iran violated a U.N. Security Council resolution with its October test of a ballistic missile that had a nuclear capability, sanctions monitors said.The launch of a medium-range rocket called Emad was analyzed by the council’s panel of experts,...
