A $1.87 million endowment established by an anonymous family foundation will provide permanent funding for a Hillel staff presence at West Chester University, ensuring continued support for Jewish ...

What could one purchase with boxes of Crisco, bags of coffee and cartons of cigarettes in chaotic postwar Germany? For Moishe Saksenhaus, a young Holocaust survivor from Belarus, the answer was: two ...

Long before sunrise, the lights would be on as Estelle Jasnoff-Chunn studied and wrote papers. When she went to classes and labs at Temple University, her sons often went along. Those efforts led to a ...

Joseph Abruzzo can’t seem to get enough Israel bonds. The government official representing Palm Beach County, Florida, has invested $700 million of local taxpayer money in bonds that are helping the ...

Melissa Greenberg lives in Wynnewood. She also has deep ties to the Philadelphia Jewish community and the city in general through her past work at the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, Temple ...

Like many New Yorkers, Rabbi Yehoshua Rubanowitz felt surrounded by strangers. He felt like his community was scattered. And he felt like he could never own anything, just rent. Except Rubanowitz was ...

Philadelphia real estate icon Ronald Rubin, a major player in the local Jewish community, died April 12 at his Penn Valley home. He was 89. “Ronnie was the best of the great men I’ve known, not ...

Whether to extend military conscription to haredi men, a longstanding question fueling political tensions in Israel, has boiled over since Hamas launched the current war with Israel with its deadly ...

At first, “Yale,” a new movie showing twice next week at the 35th Philadelphia Film Festival, doesn’t seem like a Jewish story. Set in Philadelphia, it’s the story of a divorced, alcoholic novelist ...

For more than a century, Oscar Levis was hiding in plain sight. He pitched a no-hitter and dominated the Cuban Winter League. He tallied five straight seasons without losing a game against one of the ...

For nearly two decades, Marcie Leshner has led the Valarie Hurwitz Early Childhood Center at Beth Tikvah B’nai Jeshurun in Erdenheim, helping generations of children and families find a place where ...