Whitwell, Tenn. The Jewish population of Whitwell, Tenn., increased by 5,300 percent on Sunday as a busload of 53 teens and adults from Har Zion Temple pulled into the tiny, rural town. The mostly white, Protestant population here has grown accustomed to welcoming tourists since middle schoolers collecting paper clips to represent the Holocaust death toll picked up media attention...

Just a few weeks after announcing plans to add a food truck to the city's burgeoning kosher scene, the owner of Max & David's said financial woes drove him to close his flagship Elkins Park restaurant and catering business. Since opening up five years ago, Steve Katz said, he often struggled to break even because of the higher costs of...