JTA – Howard Schultz, the Jewish billionaire CEO of Starbucks, said his company plans to hire 10,000 refugees over five years in a letter to employees addressing President Donald …
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2/2/17
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NEW YORK (JTA) – If you scroll down the Twitter feed of Jacob Wohl, former teenage hedge fund manager and current pro-Donald Trump provocateur, you’ll see a stream of insults directed …
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BEN SALES
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8/9/18
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NEW YORK (JTA) – Last month, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research made an astonishing announcement: the discovery of 170,000 Jewish documents thought to have been destroyed during the …
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JOSEFIN DOLSTEN
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11/24/17
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JTA – Bipartisan legislation was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives July 30 that will prioritize health care and nutrition services for Holocaust survivors.
The bill, the …
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8/1/19
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JTA – Much of a Reform Jewish summer camp has been wiped out by forest fires sweeping across Northern California.
The Union for Reform Judaism’s Camp Newman, an hour north of the San …
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10/16/17
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Security officials are reporting a spate of bomb threats targeting Jewish institutions in a number of states.
The threats came into Jewish community centers around the …
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4/1/22
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NEW YORK (JTA) – Do you experience feelings of peace and well-being at least once a week? Did God write the Torah? Do you eat bacon?
If these questions seem a little personal, don’t fret. They’re all part of a new Pew Research Center …
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URIEL HEILMAN
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11/13/15
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In the latest action in the long-running dispute over control of the historic Touro Synagogue, both sides were in District Court in Newport on March 28.
Jeshuat Israel, the congregation that …
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Jewish Rhode Island Staff
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4/1/22
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JTA – Loyola University Chicago has determined that the campus chapters of both Hillel and Students for Justice in Palestine violated university rules.
A board of Loyola administrators ruled Friday that both organizations had broken the rules …
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11/7/14
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JTA – Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg announced the creation of a scholarship program named after her late husband for low-income college students.
Sandberg announced the Dave Goldberg …
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10/16/17
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