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The Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, set for sale and likely demolition, houses murals by multiple Jewish artists.(Heather Diehl/Getty Images via JTA)
An appeal to New York’s Jewish Museum for help cites President Trump’s record of demolition as a real estate developer and history of preservation failures.
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Stuart E. Eizenstat speaks during the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Annual Days of Remembrance ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/Provided by JTA)
As the Holocaust survivor population ages, the German government recently pledged $1 billion in funding for survivor home health care.
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Otto Busse came to Bialystok in 1943 and set up a painting business where he employed Jews, who were spared the deportation to the camps. Background, the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto, Aug. 15–20, 1943. (Public Domain; ZIH archives, Poland via JTA)
Otto Busse secretly supported the Jewish resistance in the Bialystok ghetto, defying Nazi rule and saving Jews like the late Baltimore resident Bluma Shapiro.
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Flowers are left at a makeshift memorial in the area where Alex Pretti was shot dead a day earlier by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. (Octavio JONES / AFP via JTA)
The voices have included both progressive Jewish groups and mainstream groups that say they represent American Jewry from across the political spectrum.
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Graduates celebrate at a commencement ceremony at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, which is fielding a growing number of inquiries from Americans interested in enrolling at the university in Beersheva. (Courtesy of BGU via JTA)
A growing number of Jewish high school students are considering options in Israel for college.
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When Irving Met Ellin: Irving Berlin and his wife Ellin Mackay appear in a photograph in the late 1920s. (Bain News Service via Library of Congress/Wikipedia/Via JTA)
A century ago this month, the celebrated Jewish-American songwriter stunned the world by marrying out of faith.
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A promotional image for “House of David” shows David wielding his slingshot against Goliath. (Photo by Jonathan Prime for Amazon Content Services LLC via JTA)
King David is having a moment in Christian pop culture, and Jews would do well to join in this embrace of the ancient Israelite king, writes Rabbi David Wolpe.
Read MoreThough ancient, Jewish liturgy still speaks to our most contemporary struggles, writes Rabbi Jessica Fisher.
Read MoreHelen Nash, a New York-based kosher cookbook author who pioneered modern kosher cooking starting in the 1980s, died recently at the age of 89.
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While attending Beth Israel in Jackson, Mississippi, Rabbi Lex Rofeberg noticed that Psalm 150 in the congregation's prayer book appeared in the shape of the Magnolia State. (Courtesy of Rabbi Lex Rofeberg via JTA)
A former fellow at the Institute for Southern Jewish Life recalls the dynamic community at the Jackson, Mississippi, synagogue recently damaged by arson.
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At the archives of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum, the front page of the original issue of the Nazi family magazine Sonnie ins Hous (Sunshine in the House) shows baby Hessy Taft as the ideal German Aryan baby. (GALI TIBBON/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)
Hessy Levinsons Taft recently passed away at age 91.
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