NEW YORK — When tragedy struck last week in Aurora, Colo., Jewish celebrities were among those who took to Twitter to express their shock, outrage and sadness at news that a gunman had opened fire in a crowded theater showing “The Dark Knight Rises,"...
By Jennifer Rubin, Parkway Central High School
• Published March 19, 2012
Avi Kaplan, 22, moved to Southern California only four years ago to pursue his musical dream. He never imagined that he would be on the stage of NBC’s a cappella reality show, “The Sing-Off” and win. Kaplan and his group, Pentatonix, showed the...
WASHINGTON -- President Obama said Israel and the United States will work in "lockstep" to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. In a pre-Super Bowl interview on NBC on Sunday, Obama discounted reports that Israel was getting ready to strike Iran....
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published August 10, 2011
I don't know about you, but I'm still trying to get my arms around the notion that school starts on Monday. In the East where I grew up, school always began after Labor Day and ended in late June. My Midwest friends tell me that used to be the case here,...
