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The increase is across denominational lines. This is also the first time since 2008 that there a “net enrollment increase” in non-Orthodox schools.
Civil rights group demands an investigation.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It's funny how the Europeans think they have any moral authority.
Wynton Marsalis said: “We are many, let us also be one, unified in our embrace of humanism, cultural excellence and democracy. Let us not be tribal.”
22 percent said they had changed their habits when it comes to going out.
A member of the anti-Semitic "Goyim Defense League" stood atop a highway overpass not too far from the Dell JCC, gave the Nazi salute and unfurled a banner that read “Vax the Jews.”
By Israel Hayom
The Im Tirtzu findings contradict NIF claims to donors that “it will not support organizations that call for and support a comprehensive boycott of the State of Israel.”
“The New Jew” helps Israeli viewers explore the fundamental differences between Judaism in Israel versus Jewishness in the US.
In its ninth year, The Shabbat Project surpassed all pre-COVID levels of involvement, with 1,166 citywide “unity events” and thousands of home-based events in more than 1,500 cities.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Sunrise GW said that it does not support a “litmus test on Jewish students” to be part of its movement and is instead focused on “ending the era of fossil fuels, winning a Green New Deal and creating millions of good jobs in the process.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Museum space is at capacity, particularly during school hours, and requests for student tours and public workshops continue to increase,” said Holocaust Museum LA CEO Beth Kean.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
While it remains unclear how it came about, the company called it “inappropriate” and removed the words after being alerted by JNS.
Sunrise DC also urged Declaration for American Democracy to remove three Jewish organizations from its member list, believing “Zionism is incompatible with statehood and political sovereignty.”
The Jewish cultural organization that let go of this treasure said they were forced into it because of their steep debts.
“In a world of unrelenting distraction and pressure, Shabbat is a unique opportunity for families to truly connect in a magical way."
“It is unfortunate that Netflix is giving a platform to directors who advocate division and bigotry in the arts of all places."
NYPD’s Crime Stoppers is offering a $3,500 reward for information leading to the woman’s arrest.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Anti-Semitism has no place in Australia. It has no place anywhere in the world,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The website also has a section where the company describes the eight-day Jewish holiday.
“This coordinated attack on Billie Eilish is another example of how social media is used nefariously to manipulate public opinion and to attack and harass any artist, entertainer, or influencer that says anything positive about Israel.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The translation rights to my new novel are still available; if I can find a way to sell these rights that is compliant with the BDS movement’s institutional boycott guidelines, I will be proud to do so,” she said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Spokesman Ned Price said there were no updates, but that it remained a priority.
Mayor of Jerusalem Moshe Leon said, “The Righteous Among the Nations Chiyona Sugihara did everything in his power and worked tirelessly to save Jews from the clutches of the Nazis, at no small a personal price.”
By Nathan Lewin
Israeli bureaucrats have denied visas for the son of a righteous gentile to attend a Jerusalem ceremony in his father’s honor.
“This bill could and should have been stopped at the legislative level and must not be forced on the Jewish community to fight in each of California’s 1,300 school districts.
By Sean Savage
Charles Jacobs, president of Americans for Peace and Tolerance, told JNS that ethnic studies and racial-justice curricula as now constructed are "poisonous to American society, as they promote tribalism and racism."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Yad Vashem recognized Angel Sanz-Briz as a Righteous Among the Nations in 1966 for saving approximately 5,200 Jews from the Nazis.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Senate Bill 693 was favorably received in the state legislature and is supported by the Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Every year these negotiations become more and more critical; as this last generation of survivors age, their needs increase,” said Gideon Taylor, president of the Claims Conference.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The 100-year-old man was allegedly complicit in executions done by firing squads and poisonous gas.
A lawsuit claimed that political sociology professor David Miller violated the country’s equity laws and that his comments in a February Zoom session amounted to the harassment of Jewish students.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Some 42,000 Jews live in Belgium, about 0.4% of the total population.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Col. Thomas Joseph Kendrick worked 15-hour days to process up to 175 applications daily to help Jews escape Austria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The California legislature recently voted to advance the controversial AB 101; the governor has until Oct. 10 to take action regarding it.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In the plea deal, 22-year-old John Earnest admitted to hate-crime allegations.
The Assembly also demands that the national parliament adopt legislation to exclude any possible grant and public aid to entities that promote Antisemitism according to the IHRA Definition.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Under Chapter 808, state law prohibits companies from refusing, terminating business or taking “any action that is intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on or limit commercial relations” with Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Many forget that the holiday, which begins a few days after Yom Kippur, also fell during the height of the fighting.
By Sean Savage
“Despite its seemingly innocuous name, this legislation is just another assault on Israel from the fringe left. The American people are pro-Israel, and as a result, this legislation is destined to fail,” chairwoman of the CUFI Action Fund Sandra Parker told JNS.
By Israel Hayom
The new law defines anti-Semitism as hatred of Jews, including attacks, false or hateful statements and denying the mass extermination of Ukrainian Jewry during the Holocaust.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Canadian government had been attempting to expel Helmut Oberlander for more than two decades, claiming he had hidden his role as a Nazi death squad interpreter during his immigration to Canada in 1954.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
No head of state spoke at the event, except the South African president who sponsored the rally.
Man plans, God laughs.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jim Fleischer, CEO of AEPi, called the results “staggering and alarming,” saying that more needs to be done to “not only push back against the rise of anti-Semitism on campuses.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The human bones were found in a basement, thought to have resulted from a Jew hiding from German forces that destroyed the area during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.
“The BDS movement goes beyond protection for Palestinians; it calls for death to Israel. I don’t know if you can have a conversation with someone when the opening salvo is you need to die,” said one of the Jewish speakers.
By 2007, KKl-JNF owned 13% of the total land in Israel.
The killer was wearing a long coat, a hat, and payos.
“Just because it’s 20 years later, it doesn’t become relegated to the dustbin of history.”
On the day after Rosh Hashana, Jews will be refraining from food and drink from dawn until sunset to commemorate the Fast of Gedaliah.
Arizona's state Treasurer Kimberly Yee announced on Tuesday that the state of Arizona is completely divesting from Ben & Jerry's.
"On Rosh Hashanah, Jewish communities around the world celebrate the world’s birth and commemorate the creation of humankind."
“Passersby, regardless of their religious affiliation, always congratulate us on Rosh Hashanah.”
Some loved the dish, while others politely declared it to be “an acquired taste.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to the release, the organization was investigated by the Israel-based Alma Research and Education Center, which indicated that some of the money donated to Baitulmaal goes to the Gaza-based charity organizations United Friends Association for Social Development (UFA).
"We believe it is impossible to contain the anti-Semitism emerging from CSJ without rejecting the imposition of CSJ."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
As part of Unilever's acquisition of Strauss Ice Cream, Unilever is allowed no say in the marketing of Ben & Jerry's in Israel, to avoid reducing competition.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Politico was the first to report in February that Fritz Berggren, a U.S. foreign service officer, has been publishing on his website Bloodandfaith.com material that attacks Jews and the LGBTQ community, and calls for the creation of Christian nation-states.
“Despite our relatively small population, these attacks show no signs of slowing down as our community was targeted the most among religiously motivated crimes,” said Michael Master, national director and CEO of the Secure Community Network.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The decision was mentioned in a court filing in federal court and comes soon after U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland stopped federal executions while the Justice Department conducts a review.
The blowing of the Yemenite shofar in Kfar HaShiloach was depicted in the book 'The Novel of Kfar Hashiloach' published in 1948.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
One of the alleged terrorists was named Iran’s new interior minister.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Samuel Fussell, 19, was arrested in Greeley, Colo., about 60 miles northeast of Denver, for the murder of 18-year-old Shmuel Silverberg.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Long Island community joined area municipalities that have also decided to actively confront the issue.
A few years ago, Dr. Jon Seligman's visit to Vilna as part of a roots trip sparked the idea of digging up what was left of the compound and the synagogue.
Decades after the capture and trial of Nazi arch-murderer Adolf Eichmann, the name of the man believed to have given the Mossad the evidence they needed to find him has been revealed.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Hunter McElrath, 23, has a criminal record across the United States; authorities said the burglary did not appear to be a hate crime or an anti-Semitic attack.
Incredible: Mass prayers held around the country by citizens and soldiers for Bar-el Shmueli.
More than 100 Israeli children living near the Gaza Strip attend camp run by The Jewish Agency’s Fund for Victims of Terror, which is supported by donations from world Jewry.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rabbi Marcus Solomon, an experienced commercial litigator and arbitrator, on Wednesday was sworn in to the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He chose to conclude the ceremony “with an old Jewish custom” — saying the Shehechyanu Jewish prayer, which is typically recited to celebrate new experiences.
If the person requesting help is female, it would be more halachically correct that she be treated by another female than by a male.
It was reportedly a drive-by shooting.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Professor Andrew Porwancher said he believes Hamilton’s mother, Rachel Faucette, who was born a Christian in the British Caribbean, converted to Judaism to marry a Jewish merchant named Johan Levine.
Mazal Tov and, well, Refuah Shleima.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It comes days after Poland passed a new law that sets a 30-year limit on restitution claims for property stolen by the Nazis during World War II, which has led to a row between Israel and Poland.
Rabbi Rimon, 53, from Alon Shvut, who is one of the Yeshivat Har Etzion rabbis, was appointed as Gush Etzion’s chief rabbi. Gush Etzion Regional Council Head Shlomo Ne’eman said: “We congratulate Rabbi Rimon - his successes will be the successes of the council and all of our residents.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated the US is “deeply concerned” by the law and urged Duda not sign the bill into law or refer the bill to Poland’s constitutional tribunal.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The passage of time is no barrier to justice when it comes to the heinous crimes of the Holocaust,” said Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Education Trust.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Data gathered by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry showed that the number of anti-Semitic abuses reported this year has already matched the total number of incidents from 2020.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
New York City Educators for Palestine wrote “it is vital that we continue to show our support for a free Palestine—and the more of us who can actively show our solidarity, the better protected we will all be from attacks by employers and union bosses.”
By David Isaac
What is raising suspicions for some is the identity of one of the key players in the accusations against NSO.
By Adam Kredo
Ben & Jerry’s brought in anti-Israel and anti-Zionist author Peter Beinart, who infamously called for the 'elimination' of Israel, to present the company's perspective to its store owners and franchisees.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Communal leaders Avi and Becky Katz have established a multi-year, multi-million national initiative with NCSY, the flagship youth movement of the Orthodox Union.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Activists and community leaders will hand out educational materials about the BDS movement against Israel, in addition to free ice-cream.
The average Israeli is spending thousands of shekels trying to figure out how to keep their kids busy in August.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Chanan Weissman, 37, currently director of technology and democracy at the National Security Council, has held the job before.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
South Korea is the first country in Asia to endorse the official definition, reported Akiva Tor, Israel’s Ambassador to the Republic of Korea.
By Aaron Bandler / Jewish Journal
Franchisees operating 30 stores across the country, generating $23.3 million in combined annual revenue, say the company’s stance on Israel has damaged their bottom line.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The five major social-media companies failed to act upon 84 percent of anti-Semitic posts on their platforms.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Protesters waved PLO flags while chanting “There is only one solution: Intifada revolution” and “We don’t want no two states, we want all of it.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
George Washington University has more than 4,500 undergraduate and graduate students who identify as Jewish.
“The second Ben & Jerry’s decided to discriminate against Israel, it affected Florida’s ability to make investments with its parent company,” said Jimmy Patronis, CFO of the State Board of Administration.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Please continue to be assured that Maryland is committed to diversity and inclusion, and ardently opposes any form of discrimination based on religion, national origin, place of residence or ethnicity,” stated a letter by Maryland Secretary of State John C. Wobensmith.
The Genius Star is a logic game with a difference.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“UNRWA once again proves that it is not a humanitarian organization but an organization that encourages terrorism under the auspices of UN hypocrisy,” Ambassador Erdan stated.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
If Unilever is found non-compliant, the state would have to divest from it and any of its subsidiaries.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The report examined the online statements of UNRWA employees and teachers.
By contrast, roughly half or more of agnostics (49%) say that UFOs reported by people in the military are definitely or probably evidence that intelligent life exists beyond Earth.
By Ariel Kahana
“Discrimination against some Jews harms all Jews worldwide,” says El Rosado Group CEO Johnny Czarninski.
Lipstadt’s nomination was hailed by numerous Jewish organizations, which over the past months had been lobbying the White House to appoint a candidate as violent acts of anti-Semitism have surged.
August 14, 2026 
