Rabbi Zevulun Charlop, dean who led Yeshiva U seminary through period of growth, dies at 94
(JTA) — Rabbi Zevulun Charlop, who as dean of the rabbinical seminary at Yeshiva College for 37 years oversaw a...
Many Jews criticized Harvard’s Oct. 7 response. Fewer are applauding President Claudine Gay’s resignation.
(JTA) — The stress that constructed on Harvard’s president, Claudine Homosexual, to resign started after what many thought was a...
Israeli soldier Amichai Oster, son of former JTA writer and editor, is killed in Gaza
(JTA) — Amichai Oster, 24, an Israeli-American touring america after his service in an Israeli fight unit, was observing Shabbat and...
The best Jewish books I read in 2023
(JTA) — After I spoke with novelist Elizabeth Graver in August about her novel “Kantika” — impressed by her personal...
Among Jewish Americans, a ‘quiet middle’ has growing qualms over the war in Gaza
(JTA) — Rabbi Yael Ridberg not too long ago returned from a four-day mission to Israel with the Jewish Federation...
Here’s how Jewish life changed (for now) after Oct. 7
(JTA) — “The whole lot modified after Oct. 7.” It’s an axiom being heard round Shabbat tables, in rabbis’ sermons...
How ‘decolonization’ became the latest flashpoint in the discourse over Israel
(JTA) — Attend or watch footage of a campus pro-Palestinian demonstration today and you're more likely to see somebody carrying...
25 years after opening, Yiddish Book Center overhauls its core exhibit for a wider audience
AMHERST, Massachusetts (JTA) — Since its opening in 1997, the Yiddish Ebook Heart has wowed guests with its structure. A Jewish...
A rabbi answers her congregants’ question: Why do they hate us?
(JTA) — Once I requested Rabbi Diana Fersko why she determined so as to add to the rising record of...
How the Bible anticipated Israel’s fight over the judiciary
(JTA) — For these following the judicial reform disaster in Israel, this week’s Torah portion is nearly too on the...