Debra Nussbaum Cohen writes from New York for Haaretz and is a contributing editor at The Forward. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and New York magazine. She also authored "Celebrating Your New Jewish Daughter: Creating Jewish Ways to Welcome Baby Girls into the Covenant" (Jewish Lights).
Jewish activists were protesting anniversary of group that organizes 10-day trips to Israel for Diaspora Jews and trying to hand out symbolic 'return the birthright' tickets
Move follows scandal involving leading member of movement and renowned anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan: ‘It made it difficult for us to identify with that enterprise,’ admits one school principal
Rabbi Everett Gendler has protested alongside Martin Luther King and the Dalai Lama, and calls MLK a very savvy field general who was great on strategy. The rabbi himself says he learned about protest from the American Friends Service Committee
One observer says the blacklist is colossally stupid and counterproductive political theater
Thousands celebrate after kosher meatpacker's 27-year sentence for financial fraud is commuted, with many Haredim labeling it a Hanukkah miracle
The celebratory event will host Trump supporters from the Jewish community, who feel the President has fulfilled a major promise by calling Jerusalem Israel's capital and promising once again to move the U.S. Embassy to the city
Pope Francis expresses 'deep concern' while evangelical Liberty Council congratulates Trump on keeping his promise
Clinton: ‘Empathy should not only be at the center of our individual lives and our spiritual lives, but it should be at the center of our public life’
Back in 1992 the congregation was so small that Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum was its first paid staffer. Now it's so popular it has to hold High Holiday services at the Javits Center
In the fallout of Tzipi Hotovely's remarks on U.S. Jews, American college students say they wished 'she spent more time talking to us instead of lecturing'
The village of Kiryas Joel, 50 miles from New York City, is seceding from the town of Monroe, unless champions of the separation of church and state put a stop to it
IfNotNow launches 'You Never Told Me' campaign, calling on Jewish educational groups to inform students about Israel's policies and to include the Palestinian narrative
There have been spikes in the first quarter and after August’s white nationalist rally in Charlottesville
Some say Marcus is 'a champion' for the civil rights of Jewish students on campus. But critics allege that by conflating criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism, Marcus stifles free speech
The new Netflix documentary 'One of Us' follows three Americans who leave their ultra-Orthodox past behind. Haaretz meets two of them to discover the challenges they faced in their efforts to forge new lives
The scribe work by Julie Seltzer was also crowdfunded and now rests in a chapel with links to George Washington and the first responders after 9/11
Jews in Texas and around the world are stepping forward offering money, supplies and time for those most impacted by Harvey
With most of the city's 63,000 Jews residing in areas hardest hit, 'community is key,' one rabbi tells Haaretz
Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist movements say they will not arrange the annual conference call ahead of Jewish High Holidays
Beyond Apple and Schwarzenegger: Rights groups say they’re seeing a surge of generosity from grassroots donors shocked by the far-right violence in Charlottesville