Mass. gubernatorial debate set for Rosh Hashana A Boston television station is holding the initial Massachusetts gubernatorial debate on the first night of Rosh Hashana. WBZ -TV chose the Sept. 8 date of the debate, the Boston Herald reported....
Jews still like Obama, but approval dips WASHINGTON — Nearly two-thirds of Jews still approve of President Obama’s performance, but his approval numbers have dipped. A Gallup Poll released last Friday of religious groups in...
Court rejects Jewish inmate’s claim on beard A prison can require an Orthodox Jewish prison inmate to keep his beard short, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Court Judge Steven McAuliffe in Concord, N.H., ruled Aug. 27 that prison inmates...
Campaign to buy Israeli goods is launched SAN FRANCISCO — A pro-Israel group has launched an online campaign to buy Israeli goods. StandWithUs announced the Buy Israeli Goods campaign to counter the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestme...
Benjamin Kaplan, Nurenberg attorney, dies Benjamin Kaplan, who helped draft the American portion of the indictment of Nazi war criminals tried at Nuremberg, has died. Kaplan, who was a law professor at Harvard and served on the Massachuse...
Suspect arrested in Jewish man's shooting A suspect was arrested in the shooting of a Jewish man in Brooklyn. Police on Friday arrested Jaquan Vaughn, an ex-convict, in the shooting on Aug. 10 of Baruch Halberstam, a Chasidic rabbinical s...
Hip-hop artist turned Orthodox Jew murdered in Brooklyn A former hip-hop record executive who became an Orthodox Jew was gunned down in Brooklyn on Thursday night. Yoseph Robinson, 34, was shot to death at MB Vineyards in Flatbush, a kosher liquor stor...