National
Eric Cantor rose high, fell hard
Ron Kampeas, JTAJun 12, 2014
WASHINGTON Eric Cantors defeat in one constituency, Virginias 7th Congressional District, triggered mourning among another: Republican Jews. Since 2009, Rep....
Liberal Carolina Jews speak up
Anthony Weiss, JTAJun 12, 2014
RALEIGH It was a hot Monday afternoon, but Judy Katzin was standing on the grassy mall outside the North Carolina State Capitol beside the Carolina Jews for Justice...
Does Hillary differ from Obama on foreign policy?
Ron Kampeas, JTAMay 22, 2014
WASHINGTON A month before her foreign policy autobiography, Hard Choices, hits the bookstores, Hillary Rodham Clinton made an easy choice: She pitched her diplomatic...
Holocaust Torah given to VCU
JTAMay 15, 2014
PHOENIX A non-Jewish couple from Arizona donated a 250-year-old Torah scroll recovered from the Nazis to Virginia Commonwealth University. The couple, Martin L....
ADL report: 1.1 billion hate Jews
Uriel Heilman, JTAMay 15, 2014
NEW YORK A lot of people around the world hate the Jews. Thats the main finding of the Anti-Defamation Leagues largest-ever worldwide survey of anti-Semitic...
J Street not admitted to Conference
Ron Kampeas, JTAMay 08, 2014
WASHINGTON J Streets failed effort to join the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations last week showed that many in the Jewish community...
Interfaith memorial at KC JCC
JTAApr 24, 2014
NEW YORK Hundreds gathered at a suburban Kansas City JCC for an interfaith memorial service for the victims of shootings there and at a nearby Jewish retirement home....
Kansas City shooting happens amid its centennial year celebrations
Victor Wishna, JTAApr 18, 2014
EVERY Friday at noon, my two-year-old daughter and I rush through the doors of the JCC of Greater Kansas City here to meet my father for lunch. We are usually […]
Medical research backs circumcision
Anthony Weiss, JTAApr 18, 2014
LOS ANGELES In the circumcision wars, circumcision has been winning some big battles. A new survey of medical data going back more than two decades has found that the...
Pollard for peace?
Ron Kampeas, JTAApr 03, 2014
WASHINGTON Possibilities raised during efforts to resolve the current crisis over Israeli-Palestinian peace talks include freeing Jonathan Pollard, a partial...
