National
Does ‘domestic terrorism’ have teeth?
Ben Sales, JTAAug 08, 2019
EL PASO — Before he killed at least 22 people at a Walmart on the southern border, the gunman in El Paso posted a white supremacist manifesto on the fringe social...
The other Democrat from Michigan
Ron Kampeas, JTAAug 08, 2019
LANSING — Tom Dalton could be the poster boy for Elissa Slotkin’s path to a second term and, she would argue, to Democrats keeping the US House of Representatives....
Parents lobby Congress to stop suicide among military
Josefin Dolsten, JTAAug 01, 2019
PHOENIX — In 2007, Sgt. Daniel Somers returned home after two tours in Iraq, where he worked in intelligence and special operations. For years he struggled to get on...
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....
Suspect still at large in Miami shooting
Ben Sales, JTAAug 01, 2019
MIAMI — When Rabbi Mark Rosenberg’s family played back the footage on their home’s security cameras in North Miami Beach, they could hear the rat-tat-tat of...
Meet the budding journalist covering the debates
Ron Kampeas, JTAAug 01, 2019
DETROIT — For any reporter, careening in a year from reviewing restaurants to covering the presidential debates would be a pretty fast rise. But then again, Jefferson...
US House: No to BDS
Ron Kampeas, JTAJul 25, 2019
WASHINGTON — The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly condemned the movement to boycott, divest and sanction Israel. The House vote Tuesday, July 23, on the...
Voice over the moon
Josefin Dolsten, JTAJul 25, 2019
NEW YORK — In the 1960s, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and John Glenn were household names, idolized as G-d-like figures by a public enraptured by NASA’s...
When it comes to Trump’s tweets, Jews say ‘leave us out of it’
Ron Kampeas, JTAJul 25, 2019
WASHINGTON — Over and over since his July 15 tweet saying that that the Democratic congresswomen should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested...
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,...
