Install
JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
- 1,935articles · 365d
- 2+ day agolatest article
- Sep 13, 2025earliest in window
- 95%with images
- 343avg words
- Politics 981
- Politics2 592
- Arts, Culture, Entertainment & Media 534
- People & Society 526
- News 484
- Sensitive Subjects 367
- Conflict, War & Peace 322
- Arts & Entertainment 262
Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
Orthodox Jews are scootering to synagogue. Will Shabbat ever be the same?
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (1593+ words) By Louis Keene August 6, 2026 LOS ANGELES – For thousands of years, the Jews have walked. Dispatched by God to the promised land of Canaan, Abraham walked. When the Israelites became a nation in the desert, they camped, kvetched, warred, and worshiped,…...
The most Jewish room in Fremont, Ohio, is in a county history museum
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1241+ words) Children put on a Purim show, circa 1953, at Temple Beth Israel in Fremont, Ohio. Courtesy of Temple Beth Israel By Austin Albanese July 29, 2026 Beneath a mahogany staircase inside the Sandusky County Historical Society hangs a memorial plaque in a place…...
Over 12 Torah scrolls stolen from Paris suburb synagogue
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (329+ words) By Shira Li Bartov (JTA) — Over a dozen Torah scrolls have been stolen from a French synagogue in an attack the local rabbi called “antisemitic.” The burglary hit the Grand Synagogue of Levallois-Perret, a wealthy suburb of Paris, between Sunday…...
The Army’s only airborne rabbi finds his congregation wherever he lands
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1805+ words) By Benyamin Cohen June 30, 2026 Benyamin Cohen reports on Jewish life in unexpected places for the Forward’s Holy Ground series. FORT BRAGG, N.C. — At dawn on Friday, two soldiers showed up for physical training. Their rabbi was already waiting. Black T-shirts....
New York Times hires Atlantic’s Yair Rosenberg to cover Jewish American life
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (804+ words) Yair Rosenberg, who writes The Atlantic’s “Deep Shtetl” newsletter, was named to a new religion beat at The New York Times focused on Jewish American life. (Yair Rosenberg; Adam Jones/Wikimedia Commons) By Andrew Silow-Carroll June 29, 2026 (JTA) — The New York…...
Civil war's nothing new for Jews. How do we survive this one?
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (633+ words) By PJ Grisar June 26, 2026 I’ve perhaps arrived early to an older man’s fixation: Civil War. Not the American one. (At least not the one that took place in the 19th Century.) Before I saw any of that, I was in the Berkshires…...
Milei praises ‘Judeo-Christian values’ at Chabad event as Argentina courts European Jews
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (911+ words) Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, greets attendees at a major Chabad event in Buenos Aires, June 8, 2026. (Nicolas Kremenchusky for Jabad Lubavitch Argentina) (JTA) — BUENOS AIRES — Argentine President Javier Milei exalted “Judeo-Christian values” on Monday as he spoke to a crowd of…...
The Yiddishist Yeshiva is open for registration
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (160+ words) Image by Alec Burko ס׳האָט זיך לעצטנס געשאַפֿן אַ נײַער סאָרט לייענקרײַז דורך זום, וווּ מע לערנט תּורה אויף ייִדיש צוזאַמען. די גרופּע טרעפֿט זיך יעדן דינסטיק איבער…...
My irrational, possibly problematic obsession with an $85 yarmulke – The Forward
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (831+ words) By Louis Keene June 5, 2026 Growing up, we had a rule of thumb about yarmulkes: the closer yours was to your forehead, the more strictly religious you were. The frum bochurim placed theirs practically on their noses; the boys from Conservative…...
An organ divided a synagogue. The fallout helped create Reform Judaism.
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1136+ words) The sanctuary inside Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim. Courtesy of Brandon Fish By Hannah Feuer June 4, 2026 A new musical traces the origins of Reform Judaism to a question that, on paper, seems more likely to produce a subcommittee than a schism:…...