Southern New England Jewish Ledger
Fashion podcaster accused of antisemitism apologizes
By Ben Sales (JTA) — Recho Omondi, a fashion podcaster who was accused of antisemitism for comments in a recent…
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For these US Jews of color, encountering Israel’s diversity was an affirming ex-perience
By Michele Chabin JERUSALEM – Arel Moodie, the son of a white Jewish mother and a Black father, experienced a…
A New Haven synagogue. A Nigerian Jewish community. A long distance love story.
By Stacey Dresner NEW HAVEN – Earlier this month Rachel Bashevkin and Eric Dunsker packed up four boxes filled with…
The Boston stabbing of a rabbi was inevitable
By Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser (JNS) The July 1 stabbing attack on Rabbi Shlomo Noginski in front of a…
Jewish National Fund-USA launches ‘This Is What Zionism Looks Like’ campaign
By Ryan Torok Decades after the U.N. General Assembly passed Resolution 3379, which declared Zionism was a form of racism,…
After Boston Chabad rabbi stabbed, Jewish community ‘angry’ and ‘united’
(July 2, 2021 / JNS) Hundreds of people attended a unity rally in Boston on Friday morning to show their solidarity with the…
An inside look at the Israeli rescue effort in Surfside
(JNS) A rescue delegation from the Israel Defense Forces Home Front Command is using visual intelligence techniques and information received…
The deadly building collapse in Surfside struck a growing, diverse Jewish community
(JTA) — When a portion of Champlain Towers crumbled early Thursday morning, thrusting the beach town of Surfside, Florida, into…
For Jewish burial societies, Surfside building collapse presents a grim and complex task
(JTA) — Among Rabbi Mayer Berger’s first thoughts on seeing the 12 stories of the Champlain Tower South pancaked upon…
‘It’s going to be a rough road’: In Surfside, the Jewish community braces for bad news on a somber Shabbat
SURFSIDE, Fla. (JTA) — One kind of disaster, volunteer medic Baruch Sandhaus said, has a “lot of patients” — a…
