United States

California governor vetoes bill making ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement, says it needs more revising

The new draft clearly identifies anti-Semitism as a form of bigotry and removes mention of the boycott movement against Israel.

Heather Segal, a Canadian immigration lawyer, says she has gotten far more inquiries from U.S. citizens this year than ever before, and most of them have come from Jews. (Courtesy of Segal)

‘I’m not going to get stuck’: Ahead of the election, growing numbers of US Jews consider leaving

Canadian lawyers and others who work in immigration say the number of Jews seeking to leave the United States has soared this year.

Seagram heiress Clare Bronfman sentenced to more than 6 years in prison for involvement in sex cult

The 41-year-old daughter of the Jewish philanthropist Edgar Bronfman Sr. is estimated to have spent at least $116 million to help a scandalous self-help group.

‘It was terribly disheartening’: Tech firm’s outage on Yom Kippur eve leaves synagogues scrambling to stream services

Sukkot, the pandemic and a lynching come together in a multiracial Jewish dancer’s new art installation

Nazi comparisons have long been off-limits for American Jews. A new political ad suggests that’s changing in the Trump era.

‘Ash keeps raining and the smoke is still thick’: How the Northern California fires affected an already disrupted Yom Kippur

Detroit JCC closes a major facility, citing membership decline and COVID hardship

Marilee Shapiro Asher, artist who survived global pandemics a century apart, dies at 107

Jewish high school students in Northern California ask district to take action against anti-Semitism

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