A call for O-TYPE blood donors was answered by dozens of Pittsburgh area residents on Saturday afternoon to help to save the critically injured Jewish worshippers and police officers after the attack...
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Will Zucktown Need a Rabbi and Shul? B’nai Ner Arava?
MENLO PARK, CA — Facebook, Inc. announced plans to build Willow Village, a 59-acre urban district located at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area of California...
Turning Roy Moore into a Jewish Story and Other Alabama Tidbits
An Alabama television (WKRG) station reported that a robocall is making its way around Alabama that says “Bernie Bernstein” from The Washington Post is looking to dig up dirt on GOP...
Rabbi, Is There A Prayer for the Eclipse?
More importantly, is there a prayer for the Port a Potty in the field of the Zone of Totality…? Yes. Thank you Lord, our G!d, for providing this Port a Poddy for our needs and bless the people...
Conan to Tel Aviv, Jewish Women at SlutWalk, Rabbis Fight Charlottesville Nazis, Army Chaplains Share, and More Newsbits
Conan O’Brien, American talk show host, Harvard grad, and height-advantaged superstar celebrity tweeted that he will help fellow Harvard alumnus, Jared Kushner, broker peace in the Middle East...
Was Rabbi Lerner an Embarrassment at the Muhammad Ali Funeral?
Two rabbis (not including comedian Billy Crystal**) spoke at the Muhammad Ali funeral in Louisville, Kentucky on Friday afternoon. One, to me, was an embarrassment. One, to me, was an inspiration...
Obama Brunches and Speaks on ‘We Are All Jews’
The opening of this year’s 2016 National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton sounded weird to my ears. In New York City you don’t normally hear people saying that they will “pray on that,” or...
Rebbe Hillary Clinton at CNN Town Hall
Dateline Manchester, New Hampshire, a week before the presidential primary. The setting was a CNN Town Hall meeting. The query came from Rabbi Jonathan Spira-Savett of Temple Beth Abraham in Nashua...