Philissa Cramer

Philissa Cramer is the Jewish Telegraphic Agency's editor in chief. Prior to joining JTA in 2020, she was a founder and editor at Chalkbeat, the nonprofit news organization covering education. She is a graduate of Brown University.

From Philissa Cramer

At a time when many Jewish newspapers are struggling, Detroit’s to seek sustainability by going nonprofit

By Philissa Cramer September 18, 2020 1:41 pm

This Jewish comedian has been helping rabbis nail the delivery on their High Holidays services

By Philissa Cramer September 18, 2020 10:36 am

Seasons without song: How Jews are adapting to the sudden disappearance of communal singing

By Philissa Cramer September 16, 2020 8:00 am

The ‘Avinu Malkeinu’ kid isn’t Amar’e Stoudemire’s son. But he does have a message for the High Holidays. Take it from his mom.

By Philissa Cramer September 14, 2020 12:12 pm

Top Orthodox minister resigns as backlash against new COVID lockdown mounts in Israel

By Philissa Cramer September 13, 2020 12:10 pm

Amid increasing COVID alarm, packed services held at Chabad’s Brooklyn headquarters Saturday night

By Philissa Cramer September 13, 2020 9:43 am

Setting new one-day COVID records, Israel gears up for extended lockdown starting on Rosh Hashanah

By Philissa Cramer September 10, 2020 5:33 pm

Jessica Krug, the professor who faked an Afro-Latina identity, went to Jewish day school in Kansas City

By Philissa Cramer September 4, 2020 11:32 am

The Tell

This week in Jewish political news: Bay State update, Jews and the Black Lives Matter movement, and more

By Philissa Cramer September 3, 2020 4:20 pm

HBO’s ‘Lovecraft Country’ contains a plot point that resembles an age-old anti-Semitic lie. Why?

By Philissa Cramer September 1, 2020 6:49 pm

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