2+ hour, 8+ min ago  (562+ words) Dozens of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish authors are criticizing the Jewish Book Council, a historic literary group, for what they said was a "bias toward centering Israeli and Zionist voices'and "narrowing its vision to a Zionist approach to Jewish culture....

3+ hour, 39+ min ago  (432+ words) Two years ago, Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, was rolling around, and members of the Men's Club and Ritual Committee at Congregation Tifereth Israel realized there wasn't a big celebration in the area. Tifereth Israel is in Bensalem, Lower Bucks…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1103+ words) By Rabbi Uri Pilichowski I was standing with a group of students outside the West Wing of the White House campus when a Chassidic man walked out of the White House's Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Seeing the teens wearing kippot,…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (498+ words) When it comes to education, many families want the same opportunities for their children: excellent academics, caring teachers and avenues for growth. For Jewish families, however, school can carry an added weight. As the Jewish community faces daily threats of…...

8+ mon, 4+ week ago  (47+ words) Reb Ezra Weinberg This week's Torah portion is Pinchas: Numbers 25: 10 - 30: 1 Every summer, the primary holiday segment of the Jewish calendar focuses on the. .. Rabbi Erica Steelman This week's Torah. .. Torah commentary provided weekly by the Board of Rabbis of Greater…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (180+ words) Jewish Family and Children's Services Hosted a Passover Seder for Holocaust Survivors and their families March 24. Courtesy of JFCS. The post Passover Seder for Holocaust Survivors At JFCS appeared first on Philadelphia Jewish Exponent. Passover Seder for Holocaust Survivors At…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (829+ words) As World War II raged in Europe, Friedrich Torberg, an Austrian Jew who fled for the United States in 1940, imagined what was befalling the Jews he left behind. Torberg recorded his image of a German concentration camp in "Mein ist…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (745+ words) There are three key numbers in the new American Jewish Committee and Cyber Well report, "The State of Antisemitism in America 2024-2025: Findings and Recommendations for Major Digital Platforms." The first number: 74% of the general U. S. adult population who "saw or heard…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (247+ words) Each year at Passover, Jews gather around the Seder table to tell an ancient story that refuses to stay in the past. The Haggadah does not present the Exodus as distant history, but as lived experience: "In every generation, each…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (805+ words) Rabbi George Stern The Torah reading for Shabbat Chol Ha Moed Pesach is Exodus 33: 12 " 34: 26 When we think of the Exodus story, most of us probably think immediately of Moses: the stories of his upbringing in Pharaoh's palace, his flight to…...