Pennsylvania

With AOC backing and anti-Israel message, Chris Rabb vies for open House seat in Philadelphia

Rabb's opponents include Ala Stanford, a pediatric surgeon who has faced scrutiny for being boosted by a group that’s alleged to be a shell organization for AIPAC.

State Rep. Chris Rabb, left, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, right, share the stage during a Rabb for Congress rally on May 15, 2026, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
David Wecht campaigning for Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 2015.

Jewish Pennsylvania judge leaves Democratic Party citing ‘disturbingly common’ antisemitism

(L-r) Andrea Lucas, chair of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, speaks with Brandeis Center founder Kenneth Marcus at an antisemitism conference held at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 16, 2026.

Trump official defends ‘list of Jews’ strategy in Penn case at Harvard antisemitism conference

A view of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, which served as the headquarters building for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) since 1975, in Washington, DC, on February 6, 2026.

Maryland man who sent threatening letters to Jewish institutions sentenced to three years in prison


Josh Shapiro launches ads in Pennsylvania gov. race with nod to Shabbat

“Whether my day starts here in Bloomsburg, Uniontown, or anywhere in Pennsylvania, I make it home Friday night for Sabbath dinner because family and faith ground me.”

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro appears on CNN on Nov. 4 to discuss vote counting in Pennsylvania

Chair that Colleyville rabbi threw at captor going to US Jewish museum

Congregation Beth Israel has donated the items to the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.

 Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, the man at the center of the Colleyville, Texas, synagogue hostage crisis that occurred January 15, 2022

Groundhog Day: Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, 6 more weeks of winter

The tradition of Groundhog Day dates back to 1886, when the now legendary groundhog supposedly first began predicting the weather.

 Punxsutawney Phil's handler A.J. Dereume holds the famous groundhog during the 136th Groundhog Day, at Gobblers Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, US, February 2, 2022.

GOP's Doug Mastriano enters Pennsylvania governor with shofar blast

Doug Mastriano isn't Jewish but wore a tallit and blew a shofar as he announced his candidacy. Using shofars is becoming increasingly common by Christians at right-wing political events.

HEARING THE shofar is one of the core aspects of the Rosh Hashanah prayers

Pennsylvania allocates $6.6m for Tree of Life synagogue repairs

The US state of Pennsylvania issued $6.6 million USD in grants to repair the Tree of Life synagogue, the site of the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history.

Police officers guard the Tree of Life synagogue following shooting at the synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, October 27, 2018.

Pennsylvania’s Jewish A-G Josh Shapiro declares candidacy for governor

Josh Shapiro, a Democrat who has deep roots in the Jewish community, is running for governor of Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro appears on CNN on Nov. 4 to discuss vote counting in Pennsylvania

Jewish adult summer camp includes color war, fire breathing and shabbat

Held on Labor Day weekend just before Rosh Hashanah, Camp Nai Nai Nai drew some 100 adults in their 20s and 30s from throughout North America to have fun, make new friends and do Jewish stuff.

Summer camp [Illustrative]

This Jewish American couple collected 13,000 Jewish artifacts

Deanne and Arnold Kaplan have been collecting Jewish artifacts in their Pennsylvania home for years, a unique and exquisite documentary of Jewish life.

A round oil portrait of Miriam Marks Nones holding her child, circa 1791. (Arnold & Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica)

OU rebukes GOP-led PA legislature for cutting nonprofit security funding

Less than 3 years after the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania legislature plans to cut security funding for nonprofits to zero.

A crowd attends a vigil outside the Tree of Life synagogue Tree of Life synagogue, marking one week since a deadly shooting there, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., November 3, 2018

White supremacists march through Philadelphia

The group known as "Patriot Front" marched in front of City Hall Saturday night.

General overall view of the downtown Philadelphia skyline