Dvora Hacohen, Joshua Cohen, Dara Horn win big at the 2021 National Jewish Book Awards
by Andrew Lapin (JTA) – Dvora Hacohen’s biography of Hadassah founder Henriette Szold won two honors, including Jewish Book of the Year, from the Jewish…
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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla awarded Genesis Prize for work developing coronavirus vaccine
by Shira Hanau (JTA) — Albert Bourla, the chief executive officer of Pfizer, was named the winner of the 2022 Genesis Prize, the award sometimes…
‘I am grateful to be alive’: Rabbi held hostage in synagogue attack speaks out in Facebook post
by Shira Hanau (JTA) — Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, the rabbi who was held hostage at his synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, on Saturday along with three…
All Texas synagogue hostages ‘out alive and safe’ after harrowing 12-hour standoff, suspect is dead
by Ron Kampeas, Andrew Lapin This article was updated on January 15, 2022 at 11:46 p.m. EST with the final police report from the incident…
Breaking: 1 hostage freed, others remain as Texas synagogue hostage crisis stretches into hour 7
by Ron Kampeas This is a developing story. (JTA) — A man is holding a rabbi and several congregants hostage at a synagogue in the…