By MARCY OSTER NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – Hurricane Dorian, which remained stalled over the Bahamas from Sunday Sept. 1 and over most of Monday, was making its way toward the Florida coast, although slowly at 1 mph. It is not known exactly where and when the hurricane will make landfall. The Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County announced on […]

PITTSBURGH (JTA) — Thousands of protesters turned their backs on Donald Trump on Tuesday, Oct. 27, as his motorcade approached the synagogue where a gunman killed 11 worshippers. At the Tree of Life Congregation, Trump and his entourage met with its rabbi, Jeffrey Myers, and placed stones on an outdoor memorial for the 11 victims. Inside, they lit candles for the […]

(JTA) — Volunteers associated with the Jewish burial organization known for its work at the scene of terrorist attacks in Israel waited all night at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh to prepare the bodies of Saturday’s shooting victims. The volunteers waited at the scene for permission to enter the synagogue as the bodies remained on the floor, ZAKA […]

BY RON KAMPEAS PITTSBURGH (JTA) – It is after all, as any local will tell you, Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood. People here look out for one another. So when a group of students from Alderdice, a high school in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, emerged from their synagogues, their homes, their cafes after three and a half hours of sheltering in place, […]

NEW YORK CITY (JTA) — One of the five victims killed in a shooting at a newspaper in Annapolis, Md., was Jewish. Gerald Fischman, 61, the editorial page editor at the Capital Gazette, was killed Thursday, June 28, along with four others — sales assistant Rebecca Smith, 34; editor Rob Hiassen, 59; reporter and editor John McNamara, 56; and reporter […]

AMSTERDAM (JTA) – Nearly a quarter of British respondents to a poll on attitudes to minorities in Western Europe said they would be unwilling to accept Jews as family members. The recently published Pew Research Center’s report titled “Being Christian in Western Europe” contains results from interviews with more than 24,000 randomly selected adults in 15 countries. In the United […]

BY BEHNAM BEN TALEBLU WASHINGTON (JTA) – An inflection point in American policy towards Iran came this afternoon, when President Trump announced he will re-impose nuclear sanctions on Iran and effectively withdraw the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal. Having done so, the administration should anticipate the range of responses available to Iran and plan for how to […]

By JACOB KAMARAS/JNS.ORG As a member of Houston’s Jewish community writing about a devastating flood for the third time since May 2015, I’m at a loss for words. Sitting in the comforts of my third-floor apartment, where I’m fortunate enough to view the unprecedented waters of Hurricane Harvey as a spectator, it feels trite to be putting on my “journalist’s […]