US & Canada
Jewish activists are helping families separated at the border
By BEN SALES (JTA) — When Mary McCabe explains America’s immigration courts to children who have been separated from their...
Why the Orthodox Union likes the cake shop ruling
By BEN SALES (JTA) — Seven Supreme Court justices sided with a Colorado baker in his legal fight with a...
Head of Reform seminary dies in plane crash
By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN NEW YORK (JTA) — Rabbi Andrea Weiss, an associate professor of Bible at the New York campus...
Trump withdraws U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal
President Donald Trump announces his decision to leave the Iran nuclear deal, on Tuesday in the Diplomatic Reception Room at...
Jewish students on the March for Our Lives
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The organizers of the March for Our Lives, almost all of them under 20, had a gun...
Alex Bregman is baseball’s next Jewish star
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (JTA) — Sitting on a couch near his locker at the Houston Astros’ spring training facility...
Jews are in a frenzy over John Bolton appointment
By RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — You may have heard: President Donald Trump replaced his national security adviser, H.R. McMaster,...
Mike Pompeo’s in, Tillerson’s out at State
By RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Like the rest of the world, Rex Tillerson got the news of his firing...
What is AIPAC’s role in the age of Trump?
18,000 activists attend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference here next week By RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) —...
For women in Jewish fundraising, harassment is an occupational hazard
Female fundraisers working in the Jewish world are sharing stories of harassment By DEBRA NUSSBAUM COHEN NEW YORK (JTA) —...
