The bill for securing Jewish communal life in the United States has crossed $1.015 billion a year just as Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown on September 11, tying the High Holidays to the 25th annive...
Security spending for US Jewish communities has surpassed an estimated $1.05 billion per year, a new record, the Jewish Federations of North America said on Thursday.
As synagogues prepare for fall holidays that bring their biggest crowds of the year, a new analysis found that Jewish institutions spent more than $1 billion on security last year in the United Sta...
This past year, we have endured increasing attacks and threats against Jewish individuals and institutions here in the United States, Canada, and abroad, with the North American Jewish community sp...
Following almost three years of growing antisemitism in K-12 schools, which have included bullying and, in many cases, ostracization, Jewish students across North America are returning to potential...
Two weeks ago, former October 7th hostage Elkana Bohbot and his wife, Rivka, welcomed a baby girl. Bohbot who spent more than two years in Hamas captivity before returning home in October 2025, sha...
On a single day this month, 10 volunteers walked into the Maryland State House carrying thank-you petitions signed by 2,789 people for every elected official in the state — and 200 jars of kosher, ...
On June 24, 2026, twin earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 struck northern Venezuela. More than 1,330 aftershocks have been recorded since the disaster, and independent satellite analyses indicate th...
This year’s General Assembly marked 30 years since the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister and peacemaker Yitzhak Rabin. With so much that has happened in these decades, and the past two years ...
Over the course of three years, a period that saw the war in Ukraine, the October 7th attacks, and a sharp spike in antisemitism, Julie Platt helmed Jewish Federations of North America's board, lea...