JTA– Andrew Parver’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing since Sunday. That’s when Parver, the director of operations at the Hebrew Free Burial Association in New York City, put out a call for donations of ...

(JTA) – Andrew Parver’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing since Sunday. That’s when Parver, the director of operations at the Hebrew Free Burial Association in New York City, put out a call for donations ...

Christian missionaries have found a new, wily way to spread their beliefs to innocent Jews who have no interest in Christianity – co-opting yet another Jewish symbol and forcibly “converting” it, for ...

It's a small and seemingly insignificant item when compared with all that's occurring in embattled Iraq. But in its own way, it's a symbol of hope, of peace. It's a knitted prayer shawl. It's in the ...

Hundred of prayer shawls arrive after Hebrew Free Burial puts out call Less than 48 hours later, he had collected 150 himself and pledges of hundreds more to come from as far away as South Florida and ...

On a blustery, frigid night in January, a group of women gathered around the warm inviting fireplace in the lobby of Valley View Hospital with their knitting. Spilling over their laps from their ...