Matt Berger, the executive director of the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, is taking a step back from the organization and will now serve as a senior adviser and consultant as he moves back to the Washington, D.C., area full time…
Police in Memphis, Tenn., shot and critically wounded a man armed with a gun who had attempted to enter and fired shots at the Margolin Hebrew Academy in the city. The man was identified as Joel Bowman, a member of the Jewish community with a history of mental health issues…
The presidential campaign of Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) is holding a fundraiser in the Hamptons next week, which is being co-hosted by UJA-Federation of New York board chair Marc Rowan, along with a number of GOP donors and activists…
Repair the World added four new members to its board of directors: Keith Forman, Connie Meltzer, Riki Robinson and Amy Taxman…
The $32 million estate of Dr. Frederick M. Weissman, a Jewish neurologist from New York who died in 2005, was just awarded to the Texas Heart Institute in Houston. The sum represents the largest donation ever to the institute…
Americans for Ben-Gurion University is expanding its operations, hiring three new development professionals who will work in New York, Florida and the Midwest…
Jewish billionaire investor Leon Cooperman and his wife, Toby, made a $13.25 million matching gift to JESPY House, a New Jersey-based nonprofit that works with adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities…
Jewish philanthropist Seema Boesky donated $20 million to Wayne State University’s Ben L. Silberstein Institute for Brain Health…
Twitter is suing the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit that researches hate speech on social media, accusing the group of making “baseless claims” against the company in order to hurt its bottom line…
Alan Sherman, the co-founder of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and a longtime leader of the Maccabi movement, died this weekend at 87…
Dorothy Tapper Goldman, a trustee of the Jewish Theological Seminary who in 2021 sold her original printed copy of the U.S. Constitution for $43.2 million, died last week at 78. David Kraemer, a JTS librarian and professor, delivered a eulogy at her funeral…
Actor and comedian Paul Reubens, best known for his character Pee-wee Herman, who was also the son of one of the Israeli Air Force’s first fighter pilots, died this weekend at 70…
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