As senior chief of external affairs at the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, Jeffrey Lasday works extensively with ...

Israel cut off aid and electricity to Gaza as negotiations sputtered, and President Donald Trump threatened Hamas, posting, “Shalom Hamas” and adding, “Release all of the Hostages now, not later, and ...

Last April, the Israeli Film Festival of Philadelphia made international headlines, although not for reasons the organizers likely wanted.

Rabbi Steven Gotlib of Mekor Habracha in Center City grew up in what he called an “old school, traditional Conservative” family, and he knew from a young age that becoming a rabbi was something he ...

A safe haven. That’s what Or Hadash, the oldest Reconstructionist synagogue in the area dating back to 1983, offers its ...

Holocaust survivors are dwindling in number, leaving younger Jews without the firsthand perspective of the most gruesome ...

Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist arrested at Columbia University, will remain in ICE custody following a court ...

Oct. 7 was a painful reminder of a truism of life — the existence of absolute, undiscerning evil. Hamas lulled us to sleep ...

The ADL released its 2025 report card on college campus antisemitism this month, with many local schools scoring bad grades ...

Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Center City is in the process of launching a new after-school program rooted in Jewish values.

Immigration officers arrested a recent Columbia University graduate over his role in pro-Palestinian activism.

At Adath Jeshurun, a tradition that’s more than a century and a half in the making is in balance with a community that ...