‘Boy Meets World’ star aiming for Los Angeles area district with campaign focusing on good governance, says he wants to restore faith in government JTA — Ben Savage, the Jewish actor best known for the 1990s coming of age series “Boy Meets World,” is running to replace Adam Schiff, the …
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Some actual facts for college and university students whose teachers are under attack for teaching actual facts. The Knesset Education Committee recently scheduled a session on “The Stifling of Free Expression in Academia,” in the wake of charges that a lecturer at Ben-Gurion University – and, we may assume (and …
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The popular apparel brand’s CEO Jay L. Schottenstein is well-known for his charitable Jewish contributions, including to Chabad, whose teen program engineered the affixing event JTA) New York Jewish Week — American Eagle Outfitters now has a mezuzah on the front door of its flagship Times Square location, courtesy of …
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New versions of Ian Fleming’s novels are to feature a disclaimer warning of controversial phrases, while explicitly racist terms will be scrapped Racist language is to be removed and warnings are reportedly to be added to Ian Fleming’s classic James Bond novels ahead of the reissue of the series in …
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Sixties sensation Helen Shapiro shares her journey from Jewish youth skeptical of Christians to follower of Yeshua (Jesus). Just as the ‘swinging sixties’ started to gain momentum, a Jewish teenager from the East End of London took the pop world by storm with a string of hits. Her first – …
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Trove of silver coins — two months’ average salary — documents bloody persecution preceding the famous Hanukkah revolt when Jews fled to the desert, as written in I Maccabees 2:29 Archaeologists recently uncovered a cache of 2,200-year-old silver coins near the Dead Sea, which they say is the first physical …
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Didn’t the Bible say something about the Dead Sea coming to life around the time we should expect Messiah? A remarkable thing happened to me as I was studying the Book of Ezekiel in preparation for a weekend retreat when a friend forwarded a YouTube clip announcing the most incredible …
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Innovative art exhibit will be on display in 6 different countries simultaneously thanks to AR technology The largest exhibition of contemporary works of art created in augmented reality (AR) technology will open in Jerusalem during this year’s Feast of Tabernacles. This is the first international exhibition of its kind in …
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Tour guide for eighth-grade pupils in Azor comes up with find, which likely depicts an ancient Egyptian pharaoh bestowing authority on a local Canaanite ruler A 3,000-year-old Egyptian scarab seal was found last week during a middle school field trip in Azor, just outside Tel Aviv, with the tour guide …
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Contrary to the libels, Jews are usually the first to suffer, the first to be exiled, and the first to be killed. What began on Twitter as an attempt by antisemites to expose alleged Jewish privilege in America quickly became a platform where Jews could share their own stories of …
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