United Jewish Communities

The organization's overseas partners, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency for Israel, have been assisting the local ...  

“The Jewish community is heavily vested in initiatives to ensure that older Americans have access to and receive quality healthcare during the latter years ...  

Israel's Rabbinical High Court suggested recently that it might annul the conversions of immigrants from the former Soviet Union performed by Rabbi Haim ...  

Editor's note: MetroWest CARES, the Committee Addressing Resources for Eldercare Services, is coordinated by United Jewish Communities of MetroWest.  

The president and CEO of the United Jewish Communities will step down when his contract expires next year. the president of the United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh.  

The United Jewish Communities praised the U.S. Congress' decision to override a veto on Medicare reform. The U.S. House and Senate overrode President Bush's veto of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act, making it law on Tuesday.  

NEW YORK (JTA) -- The man who can claim some credit for having Sammy Davis Jr. kiss Archie Bunker on television is going to leave most of his fortune to Jewish causes.  

Charles Konigsberg, the new top Washington lobbyist for the United Jewish Communities, in his office. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (JTA) — The federation system’s new lobbyist in Washington is setting his sights on modest goals.  

Many supporters are willing to accept that it's politically expedient for Barack Obama to align himself with Jewish causes and distance himself from Muslim and Arab concerns, writes Steve Kornacki, but few realize that he won't have any more latitude if he becomes president .