“Don’t eat ‘neveilah’ (meat from the carcass of an animal that dies a natural death) – give it to the ‘ger’ who lives in your gates, and he shall eat it. Or … more

Every several years or so a legislator is called upon to cast a momentous vote in which the stakes are high and both sides of the issue are vociferous in their views. Over the years, I have … more

Rep. Eliot L. Engel, who represents Riverdale, is the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs: Over the last two years, I’ve supported our negotiating team in the P5+1, … more

President Obama’s July 31 phone call organized by the anti-Israel group J Street and other progressive Jewish groups could be summed up in one sentence: Please help because, those rich people … more

As President Obama attempts to convince a skeptical American public and Congress on the Iran nuclear deal, he has presented the agreement as limited to reducing Iran’s capacity to produce a … more

The Jewish Center of Atlantic Beach welcomes distinguished author, editor, professor and mediator Yossi Klein Halevi this Sunday, Aug. 16, at 7:45 pm. Halevi will address the topic “Beyond … more

A reception in the Lawrence home of Michelle and Eli Salig was held in memory of Sharsheret’s founder and executive director, Rochelle Shoretz, who succumbed to complicaitons of breast cancer … more

Following St. John’s Episcopal Hospital’s laboratory accreditation by the Joint Commission’s Laboratory Accreditation Unit, the lab and affiliated departments were scrutinized in … more

A yearlong restoration of a Torah scroll dating to 1880 is being undertaken by Calvary Hospital. The scroll — No. 515, from the town of Taus-Domazlice in the former Czechoslovakia … more

In the sweltering heat of a Chicago summer, my friend marched outside the South African consulate, protesting apartheid. Years earlier, she had protested Jim Crow in front of a Woolworths store in … more