Facebook Twitter LinkedIn By Shira Li Bartov (JTA) July 9, 2023  Long before the craze over the upcoming “Barbie” movie, most people could conjure an image of the doll: She was the beauty standard and the popular…

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — Harvard’s 20th-century antisemitic Jewish quotas were a key part of the Supreme Court’s decision to gut affirmative action on Thursday, as the winning litigant and two conservative justices…

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn By Charlotte Rouchouze Michael Twitty’s second book, entitled “Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an American Jew,” recent recipient of the National Jewish Book Award’s 2022 Jewish Book of the Year, immerses us…

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA) – Conditions didn’t seem favorable in early May as Stuart Eizenstat entered annual negotiations with the German government over reparations for the estimated 240,000 remaining Holocaust survivors around the world. Eizenstat…

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Press Release First prize of NIS 100,000 awarded to Avertto for developing a system to prevent and heal strokes  Avertto, a startup in the health field, emerged victorious in this year’s highly competitive Asper…

By Brian Yesowitch, Hebrew Cemetery Association Historical Chair Most of us have experienced excitement and admiration when we hear about someone in sports, entertainment, or another field who has done something noteworthy and newsworthy. For many of…

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn The Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community (FCJC) sponsored five Jewish community professionals to attend the Harold Grinspoon Foundation’s 2023 Life & Legacy Leadership Conference in Springfield, Massachusetts in early May. Joining FCJC’s Phil…