Sixty-seven years ago today, Bess Myerson was crowned Miss America, the only Jewish woman ever to be so honored.

There’s a spot in the morning Shacharis service that reminds us that honey can’t be added to any offering.

The summer’s whizzed by and so has JWA’s fiscal year (which ends September 30^th). As that date approaches, we’ve been taking a hard look at the numbers.

More than half a century after the August day in 1944 when Ruth Gruber coaxed reluctant refugees off the bus—told they would be taken to the showers, these concentration camp survivors refused to disembark—I stood on that very spot in upstate New York.

On August 22, 1893, a child was born who would make the world a decidedly wittier place.

What if you were promised you would never have another BHD (Bad Hair Day)? What’s more, what if you never again had to wonder if your roots are showing?

In 1878, Naphtali Herz Imber, an English poet originally from current-day Ukraine, paid tribute to the dream of a Jewish homeland.