By Anthony Weiss, JTA World News Service LOS ANGELES (JTA) — A decade ago in Los Angeles, two organizations opened their doors with a call to praye
Read MoreBy Suzanne Feinspan, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) -- I sat down last week to write about what happened in Ferguson. As I began to write,
Read MoreBy Anthony Weiss, JTA World News Service (JTA) -- Last week's departure of most of the editorial team at The New Republic -- including Franklin Foe
Read MoreBy Steve Lipman, The Jewish Week NEW YORK (The Jewish Week via JTA) -- Just three weeks after terrorists killed four worshippers in a Jerusalem syn
Read MoreWASHINGTON (JTA) -- The stabbing of a rabbinical student at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in New York underscores three things that Jewish securit
Read More(JTA) — An Israeli man studying for the rabbinate in New York was stabbed while praying at Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn. Levi Ro
Read More(JTA) -- Jewish groups called for civil and serious discussion about race, democracy and justice in the wake of the grand jury's decision in fatal s
Read MoreNEW YORK (JTA) – A growing chorus of Orthodox leaders are speaking out against the anti-Arab rhetoric of a prominent New Jersey rabbi, Steven Pruzansk
Read MoreBy Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) – If Rabbi Steven Pruzansky of Teaneck, N.J., had his way, Arab rioters and stone throwers
Read MoreBy Sara K. Greenberg CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (JTA) -- I never imagined that a day would come when some of the world’s leading corporations would fund call
Read More(JNS.org) The undergraduate student government at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) voted to divest from American companies that do busines
Read MoreNEW YORK (JTA) — More than a dozen members of a prominent Satmar Hasidic family in New York were charged with lying to obtain $20 million in mortgages
Read More(JTA) — A murder-suicide in Portland, Ore., has left two Jewish day school students orphaned. Portland police said that Ian Elias, 47, killed his e
Read MoreVANCOUVER, Canada (JTA) -- A youth hockey coach in suburban Vancouver was fired for posting Nazi propaganda on social media. Christopher Maximilian
Read MoreBy Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) – The Anti-Defamation League’s new national director will be social entrepreneur Jonathan G
Read MoreBy Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is now epidemic, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev virologis
Read MoreBy Michael Adam Latz, JTA World News Service MINNEAPOLIS (JTA) -- Early last week, national faith leaders called rabbis, pastors, priests and imams
Read MoreBy Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service (This is part of a special report on conversion in America. Read our other pieces about who's converting t
Read MoreBy Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service I understand you’re considering converting to Judaism. Shalom aleichem! What sort of conversion would y
Read MoreWASHINGTON (JTA) -- The ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee asked the U.S. Department of Education to insure that college programs re
Read More