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Congregation Dor Hadash sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General William Barr earlier this month imploring him to forgo seeking the death penalty in...

California Legislators Symbolically Affix Mezuzahs to Office Doors In support of recently passed legislation that prohibits landlords and homeowners associations from preventing tenants from hanging...

By Adam Reinherz PITTSBURGH — Nestled high in Shadyside is a reconstituted office filled with papers, plaques and presents. The memento-covered space in Rodef Shalom...

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Offers Online Jewish Studies Major The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee announced it has established an entirely online Jewish studies undergraduate degree program —...

Update: The original article was corrected on Aug. 14, 2019 to correct information regarding HIAS Pennsylvania signing the letter. On Aug. 7 — the same...

Manischewitz to Sell Kosher Food Business The Manischewitz Co. is getting out of the kosher food business. JTA reported that Newark, New Jersey-based Manischewitz will sell...

It was a devastating weekend. Two mass shootings left 31 dead and dozens wounded. On Aug. 3, a gunman killed 22 shoppers in an El Paso,...

By Adam Reinherz and Eric Schucht Rabbis across Pennsylvania are concerned at both spiritual and Talmudic levels about the ramifications entailed in the resumption of...

The Forward Hires New Editor The Forward announced that it named New York Times senior editor Jodi Rudoren, 48, as its editor-in-chief. Rudoren was the Times’...

Ted Deutch, the Democratic congressman from Florida, remembers quite a bit from his time at Camp Ramah in the Poconos. There’s the way he was...