News & Politics

BY RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump’s pick to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court is Amy Coney Barrett, a devout Catholic and conservative midwestern judge who...

BY CNAAN LIPHSHIZ (JTA) — Construction workers at the site of a former Spanish and Portuguese synagogue in Manchester, England, found a time capsule from the 1870s. The glass jar was extracted...

As we get into the fall, COVID-19 seems to be doing what other coronaviruses do. Most past coronaviruses tended to decrease in mid-spring, in May, and return in the...

(JTA) — George Soros may draw some of the most vociferous criticism, but he’s hardly the biggest political donor in this cash-heavy election cycle — Democrat or Republican. In fact,...

BY RON KAMPEAS (JTA) — Fifteen of the top 25 biggest political donors this cycle are Jewish or of Jewish origin. I picked through the top 100 on the Open Secrets website for a...

BY CNAAN LIPHSHIZ (JTA) — Prosecutors in Florida said they are dropping the charges against the New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, whom they had accused last year of solicitation of...

(JTA) – Parents of students attending Jewish schools in New York City are being encouraged not to have their children tested for COVID-19 to prevent the schools from being...

(JTA) – After days of warnings about increasing COVID cases in New York City’s Orthodox neighborhoods, the health department threatened drastic enforcement measures in the neighborhoods starting as early...

(JTA) – The sign outside a shoe store said customers would be required to wear masks. Inside, however, two women shopped with their faces uncovered. At an electronics store nearby,...

BY SHIRA HANAU (JTA) – Cases of COVID-19 are on the rise in a number of Orthodox communities in New York City and surrounding areas. Now a federal government agency is hoping a popular...