✡ We Stand With the People of Israel ✡
By Ron Kampeas (JTA) — Abraham Foxman, the longtime leader of the Anti-Defamation League who for decades was the last word in post-Holocaust Jewish fury and forgiveness, has died at 86. Foxman, a child survivor of the Holocaust, could be … Read More
By Ben Harris (JTA) — Rabbi Arthur Waskow, an activist and author of more than two dozen books that refracted progressive causes like civil rights, economic injustice and, most pressingly in his last decade, climate change through the lens of … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor Edwin L. Goldberg — “Eddie” to most everyone who knew him — passed away on April 7 at the age of 86. Once described as a “serial entrepreneur” whose business interests ranged from the family’s … Read More
Rabbi Emeritus Chester B. Diamond of The Temple, a giant of Reform Judaism, has passed away at 88 By Andrew Adler Community Editor Rabbi Chester B. Diamond, who spent his entire career – an astonishing 60 years – at The … Read More
By Ron Kampeas (JTA) — Dianne Feinstein, the long-serving Jewish senator from California who rose to national prominence when she appeared before cameras with her hands stained with the blood of a murdered colleague, has died. Feinstein, who had recently … Read More
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — Alan Arkin knew he was going to be an actor from the age of five. “Every film I saw, every play, every piece of music fed an unquenchable need to turn myself into something other … Read More