The Chicago Cubs will be permitted to hold back-to-back rock concerts at Wrigley Field on Yom Kippur as long as they minimize conflict with three nearby synagogues.
Hundreds of demonstrators converged on the administration building at the University of California, Irvine in support of 11 students who were arrested for disrupting a speech by Israel's U.S. ambassador.
Dnepropetrovsk mayor awarded Chief Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki with the highest city award “For Service to the City” for big personal contribution into peace among nations and confessions in the city.
An influential Jewish political action committee switched its endorsement in a Chicago-area congressional race to a Democrat for the first time in years.
The Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee said a news release suggesting that they had approved of this year's Oberammergau Passion Play was misleading.