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A view of Congregation Kolot Chayeinu in Brooklyn, New York. (Courtesy of Congregation Kolot Chayeinu/via JTA)
The almighty dollar
Brooklyn synagogue pulls its money out of Chase bank to promote climate change
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Jewish community leaders hope whole denominations will eventually follow Congregation Kolot Chayeinu's lead and engage in impact investing
Jewish man attacked in Crown Heights while walking home from Shabbat services
By JTA
Corbyn round table discussion with UK Jewish leaders cancelled
Israeli minister vows to help Ethiopian Jews move to Israel
By MICHAEL ATSBEHA
The October 13, 2015 launch of the Knesset Caucus for the Reconnection with the Descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jewish communities. (Jeffrey P Worthington)
August 1, 2017, 1:17 pm
Spain announces bid to preserve the Judeo-Spanish language — in Israel
Spanish Royal Academy to found a special Israeli center for Ladino, still spoken by some 525 years after the expulsion of the country's Jews
By Sue Surkes
The 'girl in red' scene from the Academy Award-winning film Schindler's List. (YouTube screenshot)
August 1, 2017, 12:08 pm
7 somber films to stave off hunger on Tisha B’Av
The practice of watching Holocaust movies helps those who fast while away the hours -- without sacrificing the meaning of the day
By Yaakov Schwartz
Israeli writer A.B. Yehoshua at a writers conference in Jerusalem, February 7, 2013. (Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
August 1, 2017, 10:18 am
A.B. Yehoshua: ‘Leave the Temple Mount to the Muslims’
Tisha B'Av not about mourning destruction of buildings but about failure of Jewish Diaspora to return to Israel, says famed author
By Sue Surkes
Ruins of a gas chamber-crematorium facility at Auschwitz-Birkenau, known as Krematorium II, photographed in November 2015. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
August 1, 2017, 6:27 am
Austrian court convicts man who questioned gassing of Jews in WWII
Suspect also charged with incitement for calling Muslims vermin on Facebook, fined $1,690
By AP
NY Attorney-General Eric T. Schneiderman. (Facebook)
August 1, 2017, 4:35 am
JNF chief executive to repay $525,000 loan from charity
NY state A-G calls on organization to recover funds; New York state law bars charities from lending money to their officers
By JTA
The Aaron Family Jewish Community Center in Dallas. (YouTube screenshot)
August 1, 2017, 3:59 am
Mother sues Dallas JCC alleging employee raped 14-year-old daughter
Lawsuit says two other girls told JCC staff members that fitness worker had sexually harassed them
By JTA
Children waving Israeli and American flags at the Celebrate Israel parade in New York City, June 4, 2017. (Perry Bindelglass)
August 1, 2017, 3:21 am
Why more Israelis are moving to the US
The Israeli-American diaspora is real, growing and leaving its mark with nearly 150 Israeli startups in Silicon Valley
By Ben Sales
President Ronald Reagan at Ellis Island in May 1987. (Harry Hamburg/NY Daily News via Getty Images)
August 1, 2017, 2:38 am
Reagan once fired his communications director after 5 days – and not because he was a former Hitler youth
Unlike the hapless Anthony Scaramucci, John Koehler lost his job in a White House reorganization effort
By Ron Kampeas
Irish journalist Kevin Myers appears in an interview on Ireland's RTE One on September 14, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube)
July 31, 2017, 11:51 pm
Irish Jewish group defends columnist canned for ‘anti-Semitism’
Chairman says media misinterpreted 'curmudgeonly, cranky style' of Kevin Myers, who 'inadvertently stumbled into an anti-Semitic trope'
By TOI staff
Illustrative photo of a protester holding up a Palestinian flag (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)
July 31, 2017, 10:46 pm
Curious case of Jewish camp’s disappearing apology about flying Palestinian flag
Camp Solomon Schechter posted a letter containing apologetic language to its Facebook page, but that page is no longer available, and text of the letter elsewhere does not include words of apology
By JTA and TOI staff
Visitors wait at the entrance of the Flagellation Monastery, off the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem's Old City, for the Archaeology and Multimedia exhibition. (Courtesy of Tamschick Media)
July 31, 2017, 9:37 pm
Travel back in time at this secret cool oasis in Jerusalem’s Old City
The first stage of the 100-year-old Terra Sancta Museum's reboot offers a multi-media tour of the holy city from a Christian perspective
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate against the visit to Australia by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Sydney on February 23, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / WILLIAM WEST)
July 31, 2017, 5:05 pm
Australian Labor Party votes to recognize a Palestinian state
Jewish leaders praise party members for watering down original motion calling for unilateral recognition
By JTA
White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci talks with the media outside the White House in Washington, DC on July 25, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / TASOS KATOPODIS)
July 31, 2017, 2:40 pm
Trump fires comms director Scaramucci after 10 days
Army source says Elor Azaria must express 'real' remorse for chance at pardon; Jerusalem police brace for Pride Parade, possible violence
By TOI staff
Rabbi David Seidenberg (Courtesy of Seidenberg/via JTA)
July 31, 2017, 1:46 pm
How Tisha b’Av can help us understand the refugee experience
Rabbi David Seidenberg argues that focusing exclusively on the historical tragedy misses out on an important lesson
By Josefin Dolsten
Repair the World volunteers assisting with food preparation at Masbia Soup Kitchen in Brooklyn. (Alli Lesovoy/via JTA)
July 31, 2017, 3:45 am
How volunteering became outreach for millennials distanced from the Jewish community
Turned off by prayer and ritual, some young Jews find an unexpected connection to tradition in social justice
By Josefin Dolsten
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