Author: Mark Hershlag

This article will be updated as more names are identified by authorities in Florida. (JTA) — The Champlain Towers South building collapse is a national tragedy, one that has claimed nearly 20 lives so far and left over 140 still missing in the rubble as of Thursday. Among other groups, it struck a unique nexus […]

Ilhan Omar says Jewish lawmakers who criticize her ‘haven’t been partners in justice’ – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

(JTA) — Among Rabbi Mayer Berger’s first thoughts on seeing the 12 stories of the Champlain Tower South pancaked upon themselves: This is like Sept. 11. Then as now, destruction of unimaginable proportions claimed many lives without warning, in a manner that rendered traditional practices for burying the Jewish dead impossible to perform. Those practices […]

Mass fatalities feared in building collapse in heavily Orthodox area near Miami – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

Over the last year, no fewer than five young people came out publicly as LGBTQ at the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, a pluralistic synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Even Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann, SAJ’s spiritual leader and an active champion of gay rights dating back to her days as a rabbinic intern […]

Donald Trump says American Jews ‘don’t love Israel enough’ and more should have voted for him – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

Jewish groups in the US and South Africa among recipients of MacKenzie Scott’s latest $2.74B in grants – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement