Just 66 Jewish families are left in Flint, Michigan. Yardain Amron tells the story of how they are coping with its poisoned water crisis — and life in a city that’s a poster child for urban decline.
David Gordon, a young American abuse survivor turned Israeli soldier, was found dead just as his life was turning around. His family and friends continue to wonder: Was his death a suicide?
Integrating hearing and deaf children where everyone shares showers and three meals daily, isn’t easy. But Gan Israel in the Poconos isn’t your average summer camp.
It’s another win for the Jews in the Hampton eruv wars. A federal judge has ruled that religious boundary markers called ‘lechis’ may be attached to telephone poles in the Southampton municipality.
Come Yom Kippur, the chickens of Crown Heights and Boro Park may still have their heads — if an activist group gets its way.
American churches and mosques are struggling to balance welcome and wariness following the Charleston shooting. Jews, it turns out, are different.
As Jewish summer camp season begins, the ubiquitous maps of Israel are coming under unusual scrutiny. Some campers and leaders are questioning why the Green Line is erased — and what effect that has on children.
Dustin Fleischer is one of the nation’s top young boxers. He’s also the grandson of a Holocaust survivor who credits his family’s spirit of resistance with giving him ‘so much strength in the ring.’
The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College has released what may be the quirkiest annual report in the mundane history of annual reports.
When the Gaza war broke out, Michigan State students worried their summer trip to Israel would be cut short. They were right — nervous administrators pulled the plug on the program.