Category: Jewish

By any measure, the numbers are sobering. Earlier this fall, the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism (FCAS), the non-profit organization established by New England Patriots principal owner Robert Kraft dedicated to suppressing antisemitism… Continue Reading

Recently, philanthropic “wonder women” united at Congregation Or Hadash in Sandy Springs for Jewish National Fund-USA’s “Friends, Food, and Feeding the Heart & Soul of Israel,” where community members received an authentic Israeli… Continue Reading

Among the young World War II heroes of Steven Spielberg’s ambitious Apple TV series, “Masters of the Air,” is the legendary Robert “Rosie” Rosenthal. Although more than half a million Jews served in America’s armed forces, few… Continue Reading

It’s finally over! In perhaps the most consequential election for the world today, Donald Trump will return to office as the 47th President of the United States of America in January 2025. The traditional question: “Is it good for the… Continue Reading

Parshat Vayeira opens with a 99-year-old man recuperating from surgery rushing to host three visitors – who turned out to be Divine beings, bearing some good and some not-so-good tidings. The good news for Abraham was that he would again… Continue Reading

Nadav Sivan was born partially deaf but a successful operation when he was four restored his hearing. His parents bought him a piano and he became a top-tier classically trained pianist, performing and competing throughout his childhood and… Continue Reading

Light Up Dunwoody, the holiday event organized by the Dunwoody Homeowners Association, is raising money for a new menorah, which will be dedicated in memory of Rose Ida Lubin. “As we were in the process of working on it and looking at the… Continue Reading

A global initiative to collectively remember those murdered on 7th October and in the ensuing conflict has seen more than 500 synagogues around the world take ownership of a new cover for their Torah scroll which they danced with on Simchat… Continue Reading

My mother was a Holocaust survivor and my father left Germany in the mid-1930s, when Hitler was coming into power. I grew up in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan — a neighborhood that became known as “Frankfurt on… Continue Reading

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has praised the efforts of Jewish and Muslim women at the Nisa Nashim network for refusing to allow “the shocking rise of hatred and intolerance towards their communities to come between them and… Continue Reading