How a rabbi saved 4 Torah scrolls from being destroyed in the California wildfires
By Josefin Dolsten (JTA) — The death toll and damage continue to rise in California in the wildfires ravaging the state. More than 6,400 homes…
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Deborah Lipstadt wrote a book on anti-Semitism. Then Pittsburgh happened.
By Ben Sales NEW YORK (JTA) — The advance copies of Deborah Lipstadt’s new book, “Antisemitism Here and Now,” display a cover photo of white…
Anxious? Angry? Here’s Why We Have to Keep Going.
By Melissa Cohen (Kveller via JTA) – “I’m so scared for your synagogue,” my (non-Jewish) mother said to me as we were driving the other…
Yes, anti-Semitism is a problem again. No, it is not 1939.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — My father, whose own father changed his unpronounceable last name to Carroll when he came to America, would often tell…
2 Jewish fathers lost their daughters in the Parkland shooting. Now they’re fighting on different sides of the gun debate.
By Josefin Dolsten (JTA) — Jaime Guttenberg and Meadow Pollack shared many similarities. Both were brown-haired and bright-eyed girls, beloved by friends and family. Both…