A steep rise in Jewish homeschooling — why?
JTAAug 08, 2019
By Sara Ivry NEW YORK — Joey Weisberg and Molly Weingrod have four children, live in a city with a vibrant Jewish community and believe strongly in the importance of a...
The righteous, wicked anti-Semitic convert
JTAAug 08, 2019
By Henry Abramson “Eisenmenger belonged to the class of insects which sucks poison even out of flowers,” the 19th-century Jewish historian Heinrich Graetz wrote....
In one week: $2.2 million raised
JTAAug 01, 2019
MIAMI — A campaign on a Jewish crowdfunding website raised more than $2 million in five days to provide a “miracle drug” to help a two-year-old Florida girl....
Rescued twice — heroic effort to save documents after AMIA bombing
JTAJul 18, 2019
By Alan Grabinsky BUENOS AIRES — Abraham Lichtenbaum was getting ready to leave his house on July 18, 1994 when, at 9:53 a.m., he heard an explosion: The headquarters...
Body of drowned rabbi recovered, buried
JTAJul 18, 2019
NORFOLK — The body of a rabbi who jumped into the ocean in Virginia to save a student was found off the coast of North Carolina. Volunteers looking for Reuven Bauman,...
Mother of murdered teen finds comfort in learning
JTAJul 03, 2019
By Beth Kissileff JERUSALEM — When her 16-year-old son Naftali went missing five years ago this month, along with two other Jewish teens who had last been seen near...
The end of a Swedish Jewish community?
JTAJun 27, 2019
STOCKHOLM — The Jewish Community of Malmo, Sweden, may need to dissolve itself by 2029 unless its circumstances change. Community spokesman Fredrik Sieradski...
Teen is first Jewish No. 1 overall pick in NHL draft
JTAJun 27, 2019
NEW YORK — Jack Hughes, even at 18, is no stranger to making history. And now he’s done it again, becoming the first Jewish player to be drafted No. 1 overall by the...
The ‘Shtisel’ mania
JTAJun 20, 2019
NEW YORK — Would the builders of New York’s Temple Emanu-El ever have imagined that their congregation’s sanctuary would one day be packed to the balconies with...
‘Concentration camps’ on US southern border — says Ocasio-Cortez
JTAJun 20, 2019
NEW YORK — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said this week that detention centers holding undocumented immigrants on the southern border are “concentration camps.”...
