Daily Archives: May 23, 2017

When the TV show Will & Grace first hit the air in 1998, it was radical in many ways. Now, when it returns in 2017, it will have a new set of expectations on...

Julian I. Edison, former chairman of Edison Brothers Stores Inc. and a generous supporter of nonprofit organizations in the Jewish and general communities, died Monday, May 8, of a stroke. He was 87. Mr. Edison...

Terror attackThe security level in the Jewish community has been heightened after a suicide bomber killed 22 people, including children, after a pop concert in Manchester. Some 59 people were injured as an explosion tore through...

After bearing immense grief, transformed into hope and exhilaration, a group of committed Guilford County Jews returned from the annual March of the Living spiritual-educational journey in Poland and Israel. Representing the Mid-Atlantic Region, Guilford’s...

Lupus. Hepatitis. Malaria. Childhood leukemia. These are just a few of the many diseases for which Gertrude Elion developed life-saving drugs. While her name is on 45 drug patents, there are many who are...

Observant followers of Judaism, listen up: Your time of reckoning is near — your time of reckoning with a plate full of bacon, that is. A new interpretation of Leviticus by a religious scholar...

Images of President Trump touching the ancient stones of the Western Wall in Jerusalem will send a strong signal to the Palestinians and their Muslim allies who have used U.N. forums to contest Jewish...

Republican gubernatorial candidate Corey Stewart told an audience at a northern Virginia synagogue Sunday night that he blames the political left for rising anti-Semitism, stunning many in the audience who felt Stewart excused bigotry...

Their deaths were at once famous and obscure. Their killers were known, well-liked and walked free. One slaying led to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. The next, the Anti-Defamation League. Leo Frank, a...

  Je suis un jeunot de 82 ans1. Je veux surtout insister, et je le fais depuis des années, sur le fait que le 27 janvier 1945, jour de la libération du camp d’Auschwitz, ce n’est...