Most people are familiar with the common practice of preparing a legal will which plans for distribution of assets after ...

As Rabbi Sholem Ber Hecht, prominent shliach and CEO of NCFJE, continues to recover from a health incident, family, friends, ...

After three years at the helm of the Jewish Federations of North America, the writer reflects on serving Jewish communities ...

The Torah tells us ( Deuteronomy 15:8) to help the poor person with “whatever he is lacking.” The Sages go even further — if ...

To mark the shloshim of Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar, of blessed memory, a global mitzvah campaign is being launched in his honor, ...

Some schleps are just plain annoying. Like the 30-minute walk with a group to a friend’s house, only to find no one home. Or schlepping five bags of groceries in the rain because your driver bailed.

Thirty-six years after its opening, the Meyerson Symphony Center looks as fresh and elegant as ever, a true classic, and the ...

Sonia ​“Sunny” Jacobs, 78, was a for­mer death row pris­on­er whose sto­ry of wrong­ful con­vic­tion was fea­tured in the off ...

I believe that the books that are opened on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur contain the more permanent decrees and judgments of our fate for the rest of our lives or death, be that as it may.

Comments continue to come into the offices of San Diego Jewish World regarding Israel's preemptive attack June 12 on Iran's ...

The Trump administration has drawn the ire of Harvey Fierstein and others for trying to rename a ship dedicated to Harvey Milk.

Philanthropists Sandra and Malcolm Berman have used their family charitable foundation to support wide-ranging interests in Baltimore.