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• New film, ‘Rosenwald,’ tells story of Jewish philanthropist who transformed black lives

  July 17, 2015 4:29pm

  Much of the $62 million Julius Rosenwald gave away helped transform African-American culture and education in America.

• In Watertown, Mass., prepping for Sabbath during a lockdown

  April 19, 2013 7:58pm

  For one Jewish family in the Boston “war zone,” Shabbat preparations followed a night of gunfire and explosions.

• Philadelphia Exponent named best weekly paper in Pa.

  June 28, 2011 12:45pm

  Philadelphia’s Jewish Exponent has been named the best overall weekly newspaper in the state of Pennsylvania and in the Philadelphia region by professional organizations.

• Midler, Seinfeld, Biden headline Jewish museum opening

  November 15, 2010 8:40pm

  Vice President Joe Biden, Jerry Seinfeld and Bette Midler headlined a festive opening weekend for the new National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.

• Pa. university pressured to repudiate anti-Israel professor

  October 27, 2010 8:19pm

  Pressure is mounting on a state-funded university in Pennsylvania to repudiate the views of a professor who has called for the destruction of Israel and promoted denial of the Holocaust.

• Agreement reached to end faculty strike at day school

  November 23, 2009 9:12pm

  A faculty strike at a Jewish day school in suburban Philadelphia appears to be over.

• Faculty strikes at Philadelphia-area day school

  November 16, 2009 9:27pm

  Faculty at a Philadelphia-area Jewish day school took to the picket line, carrying out their threat to strike.

• Marking a rabbi’s death in Tunis

  December 17, 2008 9:17pm

  Jerry Sorkin, a Philadelphia-area businessman who promotes travel to Tunisia and has strong Jewish ties there, has filed a report of an unusual and colorful gathering of Tunisian Jews paying homage to a revered scholar who, according to legend, drank himself to death after his wife burned all of his collected works. Here’s the gist…

• Jews mark legendary Tunisian rabbi’s death

  December 17, 2008 8:34pm

  Hundreds gathered at the Jewish cemetery in Tunis to pay homage to a revered scholar who, according to legend, drank himself to death after his wife burned all of his collected work.

• Another Indian hero emerges from Mumbai

  December 15, 2008 9:01pm

  While the story of Sandra Samuels, the nanny who managed to escape with the 2-year-old son of the Chabad couple murdered in Mumbai, has made international headlines, the story of  Zakir Hussain, who shared her 13-hour ordeal standing between two refrigerators while intermittent firing continued, is little known, The Indian Express reports. Meanwhile, an American…