The Kohelet Yeshiva High School in Merion Station, Pennsylvania, has received an $8.6 million gift. The gift announced last week from the Kohelet Foundation includes $7.5 million in unrestricted funds to be used for operational expenses at the school over the next five years, as well as $1.1 million to fund the high school’s new…
The body of Jacob Marberger, a Jewish student at Washington College in Maryland whose disappearance sparked a manhunt and virtual shutdown of the school, has been found in a Pennsylvania nature sanctuary, authorities said. Police say Marberger died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The teen, who grew up in suburban Philadelphia, forced…
Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has officially named its medical school after the late Jewish-American businessman and philanthropist Lewis Katz. The Lewis Katz School of Medicine debuted Tuesday in a naming ceremony held at Temple University, the university said in a statement. Friends of the university, as well as friends and relatives of the Katz…
Sitting in synagogue on Yom Kippur, three days before Pope Francis’s arrival in Philadelphia, I couldn’t help but think about the scene unfolding outside my house. Already, metal crowd-control fences were lining my property right across the street from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, where the pope would be sleeping. My little suburban block was in…
Nearly 50 years after the Vatican officially proclaimed Jews free of guilt in the killing of Jesus, Pope Francis made a surprise change to his schedule on the final day of his U.S. tour to convey his own message of respect for the Jewish people. In an unannounced event, the pontiff stopped Sunday to bless…
Israel will ask the United States government to encourage American Airlines to keep its Philadelphia-Tel Aviv flight route. American announced last week that it would discontinue the route beginning next year, solely for financial reasons. The route began flying in 2009, and has so far carried 95,000 passengers in 2015, according to Haaretz. But airline…
American Airlines is canceling its lone route to Israel solely because it was losing money on it, the airline told JTA. “Over the last year, the route lost more than $20 million,” Casey Norton, the airline’s director of corporate communications, told JTA in an email of the Philadelphia-Tel Aviv flight. “In fact, the route has…
The abrupt layoff of all editorial staffers at Philadelphia’s Jewish Exponent, the second-oldest Jewish newspaper in America, has highlighted the dire situation of local Jewish publications struggling to stay afloat. Fifteen journalists and production staffers were laid off on June 3 as part of a new experiment in the world of Jewish media: outsourcing editorial…
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