Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA

The Orthodox Union has granted kosher certification to a type of lab-grown meat, a decision that could signal an expansion of the options available under Judaism’s dietary laws.

Last month, the small Jewish community in the British city of York celebrated the arrival of a new rabbi, its first since the city’s Jewish community was nearly wiped out in a massacre in 1190.

Emily Talento grew up with Jewish friends and relatives on Long Island, attending Passover seders, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs and Shabbat dinners. When she arrived at Cedarville University, a private Baptist university in Ohio, she found herself explaining Jewish traditions to her many classmates who had never met a Jew before.

German museum curator Matthias Weniger is devoting his energy to restituting stolen art at his institution. Along the way, he has provided genealogical research that, in some cases, made families aware of as many as 30 relatives they never knew they had.

A massive mural of a Jewish mother lighting Shabbat candles has just gone up in a Jewish neighborhood of Los Angeles, the first in a series of anti-hate murals planned across the city.