September 20th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By Lawrence Grossman (JTA) – The 2013 Pew survey “A Portrait of Jewish Americans” shows that Orthodox Judaism, while currently attracting the allegiance of only about 10 percent of all American Jews, is the fastest growing ... Read More →
September 13th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By Ben Cohen/JNS.org It has been 23 years since the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires was devastated by a Hezbollah truck bomb, claiming the lives of 85 people and wounding hundreds more. It is a ... Read More →
September 6th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By Andrew Silow-Carroll NEW YORK (JTA) – Few artifacts of the Holocaust move me like the yellow star. Homely and seemingly innocuous, they sit in museum cases either by themselves or still attached to a jacket ... Read More →
August 30th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org As a member of Houston’s Jewish community writing about a devastating flood for the third time since May 2015, I’m at a loss for words. Sitting in the comforts of my third-floor apartment, ... Read More →
August 23rd, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
(JTA) – As Jewish liaisons to four different presidents, we had the responsibility inside the White House to give voice to the perspectives and priorities of the American Jewish community. While our community may not be ... Read More →
August 16th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By the Ledger Editorial Advisory Board If there’s any such thing as an American Jewish no-brainer, it’s that when a crowd of white supremacists march through the streets of a town waving swastikas and shouting “The ... Read More →
August 9th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By Ron Kampeas (JTA) – Bernie Sanders may hope to be seen as the true face of the Democratic Party, but he doesn’t have to get there by playing fast and loose with the truth. With ... Read More →
August 2nd, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
(JTA) — Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner are about the closest American Jews have to secular saints. The two Jewish civil rights workers traveled south for the Freedom Summer campaign of 1964, joining the African-American activist James Chaney in ... Read More →
July 18th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By the Ledger Editorial Advisory Board Politically-minded American Jews pay attention to two democracies, in keeping with their hyphenated identity. With a keen sense of participation, American Jews are transfixed by the drama playing out between ... Read More →
July 12th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org Non-Orthodox Jews are angry about the Israeli government’s decision to go back on its word about a new egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet ... Read More →
By Charles Dunst NEW YORK (JTA) – Former presidents recently Read more →
By Rafael Medoff In an era that has seen more Read more →
By Avi Weiss (JTA) – The High Holidays are upon Read more →
By Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS) – In March 1920, Arab Read more →
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