Two Years Later, Parkland Jews Feel Unsafe
By Josefin Dolsten / JTA
It was during Zoey Fox-Snider’s sophomore year that a gunman entered her campus at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School here.
The...
Survey Finds Political Split Between Haredi and Modern Orthodox
By Laura E. Adkins and Ben Sales / JTA
Last year, one of the largest Orthodox synagogue associations in the United States held a gala...
‘Massive Education’ Sought After Troubling Pew Study
About a week ahead of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Pew Research Center released findings from a new study, “What...
Jewish Community Debates Beyond Sausage
By Jesse Bernstein and David Rullo
When it was first introduced in 2016, the Impossible Burger was embraced by vegetarians and the Jewish community alike.
Suddenly...
Jewish Mission Visits Civil Rights Sites
A week before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, an activist-minded group from Philadelphia’s Jewish community headed to the American South to visit several...
Survey Finds Most Adults in U.S. Don’t Know Holocaust Specifics
By Ben Sales
Half of American adults are unaware of basic facts regarding Nazism and the Holocaust, including the number of Jews who were killed...
Greater Philadelphia to Commemorate 75th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation
It was 75 years ago that the Red Army arrived at the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau. Among those liberated...
Diaspora Jews Have Their Say: World Zionist Congress 2020
The World Zionist Congress, in a sentence: “Nobody knows what it is,” laughed Mort Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America and...
‘We’re Not Standing Silent’: Philadelphians Join March Against Anti-Semitism
The spirit of tikkun olam was awake early Jan. 5, even if those carrying it were still half-asleep.
Three buses left the Philadelphia area around...
After Stabbing, Monsey’s Orthodox Jews Are Defiant
By Ben Sales / JTA
MONSEY, N.Y. — When a man wielding a machete burst into a Chanukkah party at a rabbi’s house in this...