PITTSBURGH (JTA) — On Friday afternoon, Squirrel Hill was suffused with spring breezes and pink dogwoods, and alive with the movement that typifies the coming of Shabbat.
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PITTSBURGH (JTA) — On Friday afternoon, Squirrel Hill was suffused with spring breezes and pink dogwoods, and alive with the movement that typifies the coming of Shabbat.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jack Teixeira, the National Guard airman arrested on charges of leaking a large trove of U.S. intelligence documents, reportedly recorded himself making antisemitic and racist slurs before opening fire on a target.
(JTA) — A Manhattan grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump in connection with his alleged role in a payoff to an adult film star about their sexual encounter, making history and prompting Trump to once again invoke the name of a Jewish billionaire who is at the center of antis…
Sunday evening, Feb. 26, after reading a disturbing email from his son’s seventh-grade history teacher concerning a vandalized Holocaust project, Aaron Shephard immediately felt he needed to act.
The NBA’s Phoenix Suns and WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury organization’s new majority owner Mat Ishbia’s press conference at the Footprint Center in downtown Phoenix was a family affair, featuring his three children, parents Jeff and Joanne Ishbia and his brother, Justin. His new basketball family w…
A few years ago, Adam Azari was frustrated over how little he could do to alleviate suffering in the world with his modest income as a writer and caretaker for people with disabilities.
(JTA) — Two bombs rocked bus stops at crowded entrances to Jerusalem early Wednesday morning, killing a teenager and sending about 20 people to the hospital, some in serious condition.
The Maricopa Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) stated in a release Wednesday that the recent antisemitic comments made by Kanye West “are unacceptable and will not be condoned by our organization.”
(JTA) — As rap star Kanye West continually refuses to back down from his antisemitic rants, some of the many institutions he has ties with have begun to jump ship. The fashion tastemakers Balenciaga and Vogue have announced they will no longer be working with him. Hollywood talent giant CAA …
Four Arizona public officials, including the Republican candidate for secretary of state, appeared on a membership list of the Oath Keepers, an extremist anti-government group whose founder and leader has been charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
(JTA) — The reign of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-serving monarch who died Thursday at 96, encompassed the grief and the redemption of 20th century British Jewry, as well as their evolution in British society from exoticized outsiders to inside players and leading figures.
The Citizens Clean Elections Commission (CCEC) announced Aug. 29 that, after receiving community feedback, they have changed the date of Arizona’s gubernatorial debate so that it will not coincide with Yom Kippur.
Scottsdale resident Gerda Weissmann Klein, author, humanitarian, inspirational speaker and Holocaust survivor, died April 3. She was 97.
Her ties to white nationalists and antisemitic statements were removed from the censure
The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Phoenix (JCRC) and two local Jewish community members are suing the state of Arizona in hopes of preventing capital punishment by hydrogen cyanide, the same lethal gas that was deployed at Auschwitz.
When Michael Beller set out three years ago to get a law passed in Arizona requiring Holocaust education in public schools, the response he got was clear.
Two key Jewish organizations in Greater Phoenix are set to join forces in order to increase their impact to the benefit of the community.
Eric Fingerhut, who led Hillel International for five years, has been hired in the same role at Jewish Federations of North America. And Mark Wilf, JFNA’s board chairman, hopes his new CEO will bring “energy and imagination” to the umbrella for local Jewish federations.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Herman Wouk died on May 17, just 10 days before his 104th birthday.
A lone gunman entered Chabad of Poway in Southern California during Saturday-morning services on the last day of Passover and sprayed bullets into the synagogue, killing one woman and injuring three others.
Dr. Steven Pitt, a national renowned psychiatrist and member of the Valley's Jewish community, was the first victim in a shooting spree that left six people dead in Phoenix, Scottsdale and Fountain Hills. The suspected killer died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound as police were closing in on him.
Nationally renowned forensic psychiatrist and member of the Valley’s Jewish community, Dr. Steven Pitt, was the first person killed in a one-man murder spree that spanned Phoenix, Scottsdale and Fountain Hills over several days, leaving six people dead. The suspected gunman, 56-year-old Dwig…
Two Israeli Druze police officers were killed by Arab terrorists in an attack early Friday morning near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.
Victims of crime in Arizona have a new advocate on their side.
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Anti-Israel campus groups in the United States are shifting their tactics, replacing BDS resolutions with “theatrics and disruptive tactics,” according to a report by a Jewish watchdog group.
