Category: Local

(JTA) — Among Sandra Fox’s most memorable finds during her years mining American archives for materials about Jewish summer camps was a series of letters about the hours before lights-out. The letters were by counselors who were documenting an unusual window in the day when they stopped supervising campers, leaving the teens instead to their own […]

When Rabbi Adam Englander arrived at a recent national gathering in Denver of Jewish day school and yeshiva educators, he had a good sense of what conference sessions he wanted to attend and whom he wanted to meet. But it turns out that one of the most valuable benefits Englander experienced at the Prizmah educators […]

(JTA) – For days, students and police at Cleveland State University had been trying to figure out who stole a banner belonging to a campus Palestinian rights group. The banner, which belonged to the student group Palestinian Human Rights Organization, read “CSU Solidarity for Palestinian Rights” and was illustrated with an outline of Israel, the […]

(JTA) – A high school championship soccer game between a Miami Jewish day school and a local Catholic school ended with an ugly on-field brawl and at least one injury, along with reports of the Catholic students possibly having uttered antisemitic slurs. Videos from the incident circulated online, eliciting competing accounts about what happened and […]

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Ted Lerner, who died on Sunday at age 97, was as famously workaholic as he was shy. So it was a big deal when Washingtonian magazine scored an interview with him in 2007, the year after he assumed ownership of the Nationals, the first baseball team in Washington, D.C., since 1971. In […]

(JTA) — The Los Angeles Police Department has no evidence that two shootings of Jewish men this week were motivated by hate, though it is still investigating, a spokesperson told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.  A statement Thursday morning from Los Angeles’ Jewish federation echoed that assessment, saying that “at this time there is no indication […]

(JTA) — Mayyim Hayyim, a pluralistic community mikveh, or ritual bath, in Boston, is putting a pause on ritual immersions and classes after multiple pipes burst in the building’s laundry room, causing severe water damage. The damage occurred after temperatures in the area dipped to -11 degrees, with a wind chill between -30 and -40 […]

BOSTON (JTA) – Veiled brides holding white bouquets; a gold-colored chuppah; the signing of ketubahs, Jewish marriage contracts; lively Jewish music wafting through a social hall as guests danced the hora. It had all the telltale signs of a traditional Jewish wedding. But the three couples were already married — and had been for a collective […]

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Jewish Democrat from California who has been in office for more than three decades, will not run in 2024. “I am announcing today I will not run for reelection in 2024, but intend to accomplish as much for California as I can through the end of next year […]

(JTA) – The Reform movement’s rabbinical association has expelled Sheldon Zimmerman, a former leader of major Reform institutions, after an ethics committee reinvestigated allegations of sexual misconduct lodged more than 20 years ago, including that he abused a 17-year-old congregant.  The announcement of Zimmerman’s expulsion was made Tuesday when the Central Conference of American Rabbis […]