National
Lipstadt: ‘Anti-Semitism not taken seriously’
Ron Kampeas, JTAMay 19, 2022
Anti-Semitism is often not taken seriously until it becomes deadly, said Deborah Lipstadt at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on May 12, her first talk since her Senate...
Jewish donors support Liz Cheney
Ron Kampeas, JTAApr 28, 2022
Liz Cheney, the Wyoming congresswoman who is perhaps the fiercest critic of Donald Trump, isn’t too popular in her party: The House Republican caucus demoted her from...
After 40 years, his wrongful conviction was overturned
Penny Schwartz, JTAApr 21, 2022
BOSTON — Barry Jacobson spent 40 days in prison in 1983 after being convicted of setting a fire at his Massachusetts vacation home. He spent the next 40 years pressing...
Local rabbis weigh in: HUC closure?
Chris LeppekApr 07, 2022
It’s more than a thousand miles from Denver to Cincinnati, but a decision that will be made there next week is sure to reverberate in the Mile High City and everywhere...
Chair that saved three Jews
Andrew Lapin, JTAApr 07, 2022
When the rabbi at the center of January’s synagogue hostage standoff first encountered the stranger who would soon hold him at gunpoint, he served him a cup of tea.