Ideas My Israel Scouts leader died defending our country. I won’t let him be a statistic. An Israeli-American high school student remembers a soldier who fell defending his comrades. By Benjamin Siegel October 23, 2023 4:41 pm
Israeli-American reservist killed by Hezbollah rocket just days after being called back to Israel Omer Balva, 22, graduated from Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Maryland, in 2019. October 23, 2023 8:35 am
Samantha Woll, Detroit synagogue president, found stabbed to death outside her home Woll was a Democratic activist and Jewish lay leader helping to spearhead the revival of the Jewish community in the city of Detroit. October 21, 2023 7:46 pm
Actress and teacher Joanna Merlin, original Tzeitel in Broadway’s ‘Fiddler,’ dies at 92 By Andrew Silow-Carroll October 16, 2023 4:24 pm
Jewish poet Louise Glück, who won Nobel literature prize, dies at 80 By Andrew Silow-Carroll October 16, 2023 10:05 am
Faces of Israel’s fallen: Soldiers, peace activists, families and too many more By Andrew Silow-Carroll October 11, 2023 12:52 pm
Remembrance Ideas Alice Shalvi pioneered religious feminism in Israel. Everyone else is still catching up. By Elana Sztokman October 2, 2023 1:40 pm
Dianne Feinstein, long-serving Jewish senator from California, dies at 90 By Ron Kampeas September 29, 2023 9:03 am
Juan Bradman, Cuban-Jewish exile whose life inspired a novel, dies at 90 By Andrew Silow-Carroll September 26, 2023 4:07 pm
Life Stories, in brief: Our readers remember the loved ones they lost in 5783 By JTA Staff September 19, 2023 3:02 pm