Jews are hungry for somewhere to gather—a place that lacks the baggage and barriers to entry of synagogues or JCCs, a place that feels comfortable and cool and open to everyone
Taipei’s first Jewish Community Center, with a new synagogue, opens this month. Its generous benefactor hopes to unite the tiny community there, but Jews in Taiwan are like Jews everywhere. They have issues.
With emptying coffers and no end in sight, many Jewish institutions no longer see COVID-19 as a crisis to weather, but rather as a new reality
How YMHAs, followed by synagogue-centers, and finally JCCs have tried—in different ways—to balance Judaism and Jewishness, by bringing Jews together in intellectual, spiritual, and physical pursuits
Judaism, jam bands, and trendy fitness all come together for one sweaty, transcendent hour
Juan Thompson will appear in a Manhattan courtroom next Monday
Thompson is alleged to have made at least eight bomb threats nationwide as part of a ‘campaign of harassment’ against his former girlfriend
Bombs threats have targeted over 100 JCCs; a bullet pierces a synagogue window in Indiana; two cemeteries are desecrated
The Dallas Cowboys Quarterback has been hooping in a JCC league all summer—and he isn’t holding back.
No, really
Israeli film school screens films in NYC
Israeli- and Russian-born immigrants are changing the face of American Jewry
Cordoba House is like a JCC for Muslims
Run out of D.C., it heads upstate
With millions visiting D.C., a few had to crash on the JCC’s floor
Getting under the cheerful surface of historical signage
