JERUSALEM — Protests by the Ethiopian-Israeli community and their supporters continued in Israel last week in the wake of the killing of an Ethiopian-Israeli teen by an off-duty police … more

The White House on Wednesday withdrew an invitation to political cartoonist Ben Garrison, who has been accused by the … more

Rabbi Shmuel Klammer, a resident of Woodmere, was appointed academic dean of Touro College Israel (TCI). He will be making aliyah this summer. In his new role, Rabbi Klammer plans to develop new … more

Greek Jews are no strangers to moussaka, the rich casserole traditionally made from eggplant and lamb and thickly layered with bechamel. But because kosher laws prohibit the consumption of milk and … more

A Passover-themed work of public art produced by a Jewish arts and cultural organization here was named one of the country’s top 50 public arts installations by a leading arts and education … more

    The mourning for Miriam is wholly inadequate, and it opened the door for the unfortunate events of Mei Merivah, which concluded with a need for different leadership to bring the … more

Not long ago, I heard a powerful vignette from Rabbi Marvin Hier, the former director of the Simon Wiesenthal center. When Simon Wiesenthal, the famous Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter, celebrated … more

American Jews have a long and understandable tradition of advocacy for immigrants. That’s due in part to the fact that most Jews were the children and grandchildren of immigrants as the … more

We take it for granted that the way to address the evil of anti-Semitism is to fight it. It’s a natural part of our vocabulary. We fight, we confront, we condemn, we call out. We refuse to … more

Israeli society has been gripped over the past week by the killing of Solomon Tekah, an unarmed 19-year-old Ethiopian Israeli. On June 30, an off-duty Israeli police officer shot and killed Tekah … more