Category: Local

(New York Jewish Week) — At the first-ever “Kosherpalooza” — a kosher food festival geared toward consumers  — savvy attendees knew best to strategize: First, sample everything on the “dairy” side of the convention center (lattes, ice cream, cheeses, pasta, fresh goat and sheep’s milk), and then cross over to the “meat” side, where steak tartare, […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Daniel Shapiro, formerly the U.S. ambassador to Israel, will be the Biden administration’s point man in expanding and managing the Abraham Accords, the normalization agreements between Israel and four Arab countries. Shapiro, the ambassador to Israel under the Obama administration, has been heading an Abraham Accords advancement effort at the Atlantic […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Republican and Democratic leaders invited Israeli President Isaac Herzog to address Congress to mark 75 years of the U.S.-Israel relationship. The invitation, which will almost certainly include a White House visit with President Biden, is unusual in that it comes before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been asked to meet with the […]

When the first pandemic-era Rosh Hashanah arrived three years ago, many synagogues found themselves struggling to adjust to a radically different High Holiday experience in which much of Jewish communal life had moved online.  Fast forward three years, and American Jewish communal life has returned in full force — yet online programming and outreach is […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Almost a year and a half into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, 13-year-old Artur Dotsenko has become accustomed to sleepless nights. With all the bombings and shellings in his hometown of Kyiv, Dotsenko said he gets about 2-3 hours of sleep each night. For a few weeks this summer, Dotsenko will leave war-torn […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Nineteen progressive Democrats in Congress urged the departments of State and Homeland Security to keep Israel from joining a coveted program that would enable its citizens to travel to the United States without a visa, saying Israel profiles Muslim, Arab and particularly Palestinian Americans. The letter sent Tuesday to Secretary of […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – In early June, the town of Highland Park, New Jersey, had one of its central thoroughfares decked out in rainbow Pride flags to celebrate an upcoming LGBTQ-themed music festival.  But four days after the display went up, Highland Park’s mayor took four of the flags down. According to communications from city officials, […]

PITTSBURGH ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Defense lawyers for the man convicted of murdering 11 Jewish worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue began detailing their argument that he should not be sentenced to death, calling witnesses to identify abnormalities in his brain. That point is a key part of the defense’s strategy to keep their client, Robert Bowers, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Orthodox students at Brandeis University are decrying an ad for their school that said the university is “anything but Orthodox.” The ad, which was published on Sunday in The New York Times Magazine, was headlined, “Brandeis was founded by Jews. But, it’s anything but Orthodox.” The two-page spread was part of a […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Before sundown Friday night, as American Jews prepared to light their Shabbat candles, some also lit yahrzeit candles. The additional flames, which signify mourning, burned in commemoration of the first anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court ruling removing a federal guarantee of abortion rights. That is far […]