National
Trump signs executive order on anti-Semitism
JNSDec 12, 2019
By Jackson Richman WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump was expected to sign an executive order on Dec. 11 addressing anti-Semitism amid the rise in hatred toward...
Four killed in shooting in New Jersey kosher shop
Josefin Dolsten, JTADec 12, 2019
NEW YORK — The gunmen who entered a Jersey City kosher supermarket and engaged in a deadly shootout with police deliberately chose the store, the city’s mayor said....
Nikki Haley unpacks at UN Watch
JNSDec 12, 2019
By Shiryn Ghermezian In a scathing speech last week about corruption in the UN, former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley accused Canada of making a “deal with the...
Trump lays it on at Israel-US confab
Josefin Dolsten, JTADec 12, 2019
HOLLYWOOD, Fla.— President Donald Trump slammed American Jews who he said did not sufficiently “love Israel.” “So many of you voted for the people in the last...
Stabbing of schoolteacher has changed life in Ramapo, NY
Ben Sales, JTANov 28, 2019
Life was good — Then a schoolteacher was stabbed, almost to death, and life in Ramapo changed RAMAPO, NY— On the street where a man was stabbed to within an inch of...
Vindman: ‘I am an American’
Ben Sales, JTANov 21, 2019
WASHINGTON — Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the Jewish National Security Council staffer whose firsthand account of the July phone call between President Donald Trump and...
Whither the Pittsburgh memorial objects?
Ben Sales, JTAOct 31, 2019
PITTSBURGH — Eric Lidji remembers people leaving objects in sets of 11. Eleven white feathers. Eleven Jewish stars. Eleven egg-shaped sculptures. But mostly, Lidji...
Lt. Col. Vindman came to the US as a Soviet refugee
Ron Kampeas, JTAOct 31, 2019
WASHINGTON — Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council staffer who testified that President Donald Trump sought dirt from Ukraine on a political...
How Pittsburgh changed shul security
Ron Kampeas, JTAOct 17, 2019
WASHINGTON — Here’s the sad paradox of the shooting nearly one year ago at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue: The killing of 11 worshippers, the worst attack on...
Whither Jewish day schools?
JNSOct 10, 2019
By Faygie Holt When students returned to the San Diego Jewish Academy just a few weeks ago, they were greeted not only by new teachers, but new classmates as well....
