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Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel speaking at a news conference near Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 15, 2018. Seventeen people were killed there a day earlier by a lone gunman. (Amy Beth Bennett/Sun Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images)
Scott Israel is the county’s first Jewish sheriff, and it’s an identity he has embraced. A 2016 campaign flier reported on that year by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel centers on the role that faith in general, and Judaism in particular, plays in his life.
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Andrew and Amy Kleinerman, pictured on a trip to Israel, are intermarried like two-thirds of Bay Area Jewish couples aged 18 to 34. (Courtesy of Amy Kleinerman)
The study, funded by the Bay Area’s Jewish federation and published Tuesday, shows a community that is diverse, transient, educated, relatively unengaged with traditional institutions and economically divided.
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Lester Wolff, a congressman for 16 years, speaking at a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., Dec. 10, 2014. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
More than three decades after he left the chamber, Lester Wolff is writing three books at once, runs a website and collects Asian art. And he tweets.
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Eva Lavi, who was 2 years old when the Nazis invaded Poland, addressing the United Nations last week. (Courtesy of the Israeli mission to the U.N.)
Eva Lavi is the youngest survivor to have been on Schindler’s list, the Jews saved by German industrialist Oskar Schindler and immortalized in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film.
Read MoreThe podcast is, basically, Micah Hart shooting the breeze with people who went to camp, most of them Jewish. The conversations cover anything from camp food to the lake to awkward sexual encounters.
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Mikhl Baran, who leads Jewish culture programming at Camp Kinder Ring, speaking at a Friday evening program. (Sharon Strongin/Camp Kinder Ring)
Kinder Ring was originally a Yiddish-language camp started in 1927 by the Workmen’s Circle — a society founded in 1900 as a socialist aid organization for European Jewish immigrants.
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The Orthodox Union is allowing Maharat Ruth Friedman, left, shown at her graduation from Yeshivat Maharat in 2013, and three other Orthodox women clergy to remain in their positions without their synagogues facing a penalty. (Joe Winkler)
A statement adopted at the umbrella Orthodox synagogue association’s board meeting last night and obtained by JTA states that while the O.U. prohibits synagogues from hiring women as clergy, the four synagogues that already employ women clergy will be allowed to remain members without making any changes.
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Phil Basser with his grandson Josh Potter at the Eagles’ NFC Championship game against the Minnesota Vikings in Philadelphia, Jan. 21, 2018. (Courtesy of Fox 29 News)
For the past few days, as Philly cheers the Eagles making it to the big game on Feb. 4, it’s also celebrating Phil Basser, a native son who is waiting for his beloved football team to win its first Super Bowl. He will turn 100 in March.
Read MoreIn addition to introducing Jersey City to the art world, Mana Contemporary hopes to introduce the art world to Jersey City.
Read MoreThe organization’s pluralist approach has drawn a tapestry of involved and unaffiliated Jews, mostly in their mid- to late 20s.
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Rabbi Adina Allen and her husband, Jeff Kasowitz, founded the Jewish Studio Project in 2015 as a way for Jews to access their religion through art. (Ben Sales)
Rabbi Adina Allen and Jeff Kasowitz founded the Jewish Studio Project in 2015 to merge their enthusiasm for traditional Jewish study and ritual with their love for art.
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