“I embrace who I am ethnically, biologically,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz old Priya Anand in a Nov. 24 episode of the We Are Spiraling podcast that was titled “The Politics of … more

The Trump administration will not allow Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to neglect Jews in New York City, according to Leo Terrell, chair of the US Department of Justice’s Task Force to Combat … more

How long have we been the “wandering Jews?” I imagine ever since Abraham, the first Jew. And the wandering Jew has also been the wondering Jew. We’ve been forever wondering about … more

On Wednesday night, Nov. 19, antisemitic protesters blocked worshippers from entering Park East Synagogue, a Modern Orthodox congregation on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, and called for violence … more

Every major diaspora community in America has lobbying arms, many of them far better funded than AIPAC. Yet only AIPAC is treated as a threat to the republic. … more

The Jewish Star Schools page features events in schools throughout the Five Towns and Nassau, Queens, Riverdale and Westchester. This week, the following schools are featured: more

Friday’s White House press conference was expected to be a wild, bruising affair. The script was simple: President Donald Trump (a 79-years-old ruffian, undisputed champion of take-no-prisoners … more

It is one of the great visions of the Torah. Jacob, alone at night, fleeing from the wrath of Esau, lies down to rest, and sees not a nightmare of fear but an epiphany: In time he (Yaakov) … more

Professor Velvel Greene of the University of Minnesota was a rising star in the world of science. NASA invited him to sit on an elite panel of astrophysicists analyzing the possible effects of space … more

The title of this week’s column are the opening words of Walt Whitman’s immortal poem from his “Leaves of Grass” collection published in 1855. It celebrates the human body as … more