Marshall Meyer News Today

South America is getting its first Jewish university next year. The Latin American Rabbinical Seminary in Buenos Aires — which is affiliated with the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, the Conservative movement’s flagship — obtained legal approval last month to establish the Isaac Abarbanel Jewish University Institute. The school will confer diploma, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral

The seminary is named after American rabbi Marshall Meyer, a New York native who worked to revitalize the Conservative movement in Buenos Aires from 1958 to 1984.

Sunday, Nov. 26

Lakewood is one of many water systems going to extraordinary lengths to address a threat that health officials are still trying to understand.

Rabbi Nico Socolovsky has made five major moves in the past 20 years, from Argentina to Israel to New York to Singapore to Orange County and finally to the Bay Area.

Today, every gallon from two water district wells must first be flushed through six enormous tanks, each filled with 40,000 pounds of specially treated coal, to remove contaminants.

A massive legal battle is playing out across the country as more than 200 providers of public drinking water, including Lakewood, sue manufacturers, distributors and in some cases the Defense Department in federal court to determine who will pay the cleanup bills that will tally in the billions of dollars.

A cornerstone of the University of Denver campus, the Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts will celebrate 20 years this 2022-23 Newman Center Presents season. Defying gravity, the vertical dance company BANDALOOP will kick off the season by scaling DU's buildings Sept. 29. The free performance is part of a festival celebrating the Newman Center. “We’ll be showcasing local artists and students and connections to faculty and staff across the campus,” says Aisha Ahmad Po...

A Fort Worth Police Department officer has been fired for an incident while he was off duty in Arkansas last year.

As the fentanyl death toll ticks up, U.S. legislators slam Beijing’s regulatory loopholes and rue political tensions.