In a briefing at the East Room of the White House, President Trump unveiled a new peace plan that would preserve Israeli control of Jerusalem and settlements in the West Bank, while endorsing a Palestinian state and promising billions in dollars to help develop it. Even before the speech had ended, journalists, commentators, and thinkers…
For a Boston boy who spent most of his life in New York, where he made a vast fortune and was thrice elected the city’s mayor, Mike Bloomberg’s pitch for the American Jewish community’s support in South Florida felt like he was playing for the home team — the ethnically diverse, politically moderate Jews of…
John Bolton is perhaps the most in-demand person in Washington, D.C. If he testifies in the impeachment hearing, he could change the course of history. But Bolton may sooner show up in the suburban town of Jackson, N.J., than on the floor of the Senate. That’s because Dr. Richard Roberts — an Orthodox Jewish philanthropist…
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The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is the world’s preeminent center for the study of Yiddish language and culture. Founded in Vilna in 1925, YIVO is now based in New York and includes an academic center, an archive with 23 million item, and a library with 400,000 books. On Monday, that YIVO’s board, facing a…
I was blessed to spend the bulk of my rabbinic service in a place I didn’t belong. I am a Yankee, born in New York, who served a synagogue in the Deep South. When I first arrived decades ago, I found myself anxiously striving to keep Judaism — and Jews — from being submerged in…
Angela Orosz Richt is nervous about her upcoming trip to Auschwitz to commemorate the 75th anniversary of its liberation. She was there on that day, although she doesn’t remember it, because she was only about a month old. Richt is one of the very small number of people who were born in a death camp…
Voting in the World Zionist Congress elections surged on the first day ballots were open, according to the leader of the organization that runs the election process. “More than double the number of people have voted in half a day than voted in the whole first day in 2015,” American Zionist Movement executive director Herbert…
Jay Sekulow, the Bar Mitzvah boy who converted to Christianity, became one of the nation’s leading evangelical legal advocates and is now co-leading President Trump’s impeachment-defense team, said in an exclusive interview that he has no idea how he was selected for the role other than by “God’s hand.” Sekulow, who along with the White…
This story was originally published on January 17, 2020 by THE CITY When sweeping bail reform was passed last April, state lawmakers allowed for the use of some kind of electronic monitoring for defendants charged with certain felonies. The reforms went into effect at the beginning of the year — and now city criminal justice…
A Jewish college in Michigan enrolled thousands of fictitious and actual Israeli students in a fake study abroad program as part of a scheme to pocket federal financial aid money, court documents unsealed Tuesday claim. The documents, which include a complaint filed by a former employee and whistleblower, describe in detail how the Michigan Jewish…
דער שוועדישער פֿאַרלעגער ניקאָלײַ אָלניאַנסקי האָט דערציילט ווי ער האָט אָנגעהויבן אַרויסגעבן קינדערביכלעך אויף ייִדיש.
