United States

Jeb Bush tours Auschwitz

The ex-Florida governor made an unannounced visit during a European tour ahead of his expected formal announcement of his run for the Republican presidential nomination,

NYC to reconsider regulations on circumcision rite

The New York City Board of Health voted to consider a plan to waive a consent form for metzitzah b’peh and instead require hospitals to distribute a brochure on its dangers.

A Jewish Ghetto Brother from the South Bronx

It wasn’t easy growing up in the gang-riddled Bronx of the 60s and 70s, especially for the son of Puerto Rican immigrants—and doubly especially when your family were descendants of Marranos: Jews forced to practice Judaism in secret to avoid persecution. But from that turmoil emerged Benjy Melendez, a legend in the Bronx gang community, […]