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Wanana Abrams, a 28-year-old Israeli of Ethiopian origin, calls herself “just one of countless examples—along with thousands of other religious and ethnic minorities—of why the term …
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By Adam Abrams, JNS.org
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4/20/17
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We interrupt this Passover to bring you two news bulletins:
Bashar Assad is worse than Hitler.
The Soup Nazi was almost a real Nazi.
Let’s start with the second revelation, since Sean …
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Analysis by Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
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4/20/17
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About 30 guests, including senior White House Officials and a member of the Cabinet, joined a glatt kosher Seder at the White House on the first night on Pesach. The group photo (a portion of which …
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4/20/17
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Jesse Lurie, the longtime executive editor of Hadassah Magazine and a peace activist, has died at 103.
Lurie, an Israeli American, was the magazine’s founding executive editor in 1947 and …
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By JTA
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4/20/17
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President Donald Trump is seeking “a conflict-ending settlement” for Israelis and Palestinians, his spokesman Sean Spicer said on Wednesday.
The statement Wednesday by Sean Spicer, who …
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By JTA
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4/20/17
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Until recently, the Ruderman Family Foundation helped pioneer assistance revolving around disbaility within the Jewish community. A key word here is “within.”
While donating …
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By JTA Staff
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4/20/17
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From Anne Frank’s diary to Elie Wiesel’s “Night,” books about the Holocaust remain some of the most powerful and well-known pieces of literature published in the past century. …
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By Josefin Dolsten, JTA
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4/20/17
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George Carlin was wrong, there aren’t seven words you can’t say on television — there should be nine. The last two words should be “Hitler” and “Nazi.” …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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4/20/17
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Seventy-two years ago to the date that Marion Blumenthal’s family — her father, Walter; her mother, Ruth; and Marion and her brother, Albert — were liberated from the Bergen-Belsen …
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By Jeffrey Bessen
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4/20/17
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A television program airing this week on PBS links an incredible Holocaust escape story — which climaxed on the last day of Pesach in 1944 — to advanced scientific …
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By Tom Tugend, JTA
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4/20/17
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