It’s the time of year that for one day, the ninth of Av, Jews think about being displaced and exiled. We think of what was lost with the destruction of two Temples, and our historical exile from Jerusalem. This year, I am in the unenviable position of feeling this uprooted aspect of Jewish history in…
For Jews, the saddest day of the year is almost here. It’s a holiday called Tisha B’Av; it happens this weekend, and it compresses every Jewish tragedy into one searing day of fasting and mourning. The First and Second Temples were both destroyed on “Tisha,” or the ninth, of the Hebrew month of Av, according…
Senator Bernie Sanders skirted around a question about whether he, as a Jewish presidential candidate, feels less safe in America today, saying it’s “not only Jews” who have been targeted. On CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, host Jake Tapper called on Sanders to comment on the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton…
Sen. Bernie Sanders forbade his campaign staff from publicizing a visit he paid to the site of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre in April because he didn’t want the visit to be seen as a “publicity grab,” The New York Times reported Saturday. Sanders, who is Jewish, met with the rabbi of the Tree of Life…
(JTA) — The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh will give more than $650,000 to victims of the Christchurch terror attacks on two mosques that left 51 worshippers dead. More than $60,000 of that total was raised by the Tree of Life congregation, which was targeted by an anti-Semitic gunman five months earlier on Oct. 27,…
Lawyers for the man who killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh last October are saying that FBI agents are meddling with witnesses as they prepare for the man’s trial, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. The defense team, led by Judy Clarke — who has represented the man who shot Arizona Congresswoman…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A survey of American Jews showed continued disapproval of President Donald Trump, with anti-Semitism high and Israel low on the priority list for Jewish voters. The survey, conducted for a liberal-leaning Jewish organization, the Jewish Electorate Institute, by Greenberg Research, which does polling for Democratic candidates, showed 71 percent of Jewish American…
POWAY, California (JTA) — Poway’s mayor said preparations made in the aftermath of the massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue “contributed to saving lives” in his hometown. On Saturday, a gunman entered Chabad of Poway, killing Lori Gilbert-Kaye, a 60-year-old congregant, and injuring three others, including Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, the congregation’s spiritual leader. Following the October…
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