✡ We Stand With the People of Israel ✡
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA) — For years, synagogue leaders have said they can’t find enough clergy to fill their pulpits, leading to warnings of a nationwide rabbinic shortage. At the same time, openings for campus rabbis at Hillel chapters draw … Read More
By Andrew Lapin (JTA) — A sudden change in leadership at Indiana University’s Jewish studies program has erupted into a bitter internal feud, pitting a new interim director against faculty and students who say he is undermining academic freedom and … Read More
By Ron Kampeas (JTA) — Walking and chewing gum. Nixon and China. Fighting against the British in Palestine while fighting with the British in Europe. All are cliches signifying two seemingly contradictory actions that are possible — and potentially preferable … Read More
By Sarah Bunin Benor (JTA) — On Sukkot, we strengthen our local communities, hosting elaborate meals with relatives and friends and leaving one wall of the sukkah open, symbolizing hospitality. Sukkot also invokes the Jewish community in time. We build … Read More
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA) — When the Conservative movement’s ethics committee opened an investigation into his participation in interfaith weddings, Rabbi Ari Yehuda Saks didn’t wait for the verdict. On Sunday, the third-generation Conservative rabbi resigned from the Rabbinical Assembly, … Read More
By David Zvi Kalman (JTA) — Earlier this week, Grok — the AI chatbot owned by Elon Musk’s xAI — decided to go full Nazi. Posting on X, it used antisemitic tropes and advocated for a new Holocaust, all the … Read More
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By Ami Eden (JTA) — It’s a good thing Chuck Schumer loves pickles — because he’s in a real big one following Zohran Mamdani’s apparent victory in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary last week. The House Minority Leader’s Biden-y vibes … Read More
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA) — More than 230,000 American Jews voted in the 2025 election for the World Zionist Congress, setting a new turnout record and nearly doubling participation compared to the last election five years ago, according to preliminary … Read More
By Iola Kostrzewski (JTA) — I am Black. I am Jewish. I work in the field of hate crimes not only as a professional who responds to incidents, builds coalitions and educates others but as someone who has lived their … Read More