יום חמישי, ו׳ תשרי תשפ״זThursday, September 17, 2026
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The letter was written when Einstein was living in Princeton, New Jersey, several years after the Nazi rise to power and his decision never to return to Germany.
The role will not require Senate confirmation, allowing him to begin serving immediately as acting envoy until the Senate moves on the nomination of Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt.
Riots and looting broke out around the country in response to the not guilty verdict.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“As the last living Nuremberg prosecutor and a man who spent more than 50 years prosecuting the most horrific war crimes, [Ben] Ferencz embodies the idea that while the work is not ours to finish, neither is it ours to neglect,” said Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.).
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 2021 Federalist Society conference and included remarks by Richard Goldberg, who drafted one of the first anti-BDS laws in 2015.
By Israel Hayom
After an Israeli court halted the sale of the tattoo stamps following an outcry, the anonymous seller has decided to donate them to the Haifa Holocaust Museum.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Members of Hillel and other pro-Israel campus organizations set up a table with literature on the outskirts of the rally to challenge the one-sided anti-Semitic narrative of Students for Justice in Palestine.
This is a very significant historic discovery, as Scrolls of Esther inscribed during that time period by women are few, and it sheds light on the important position that religious women occupied in Italian Jewish community life.
By Baruch Lytle
One of the things I have unfortunately become very used to is the anti-Semitism on TikTok.
“Give me an example of one Muslim state with possibly the exception of Morocco, where Jews and other religions live and prosper as minorities."
The activities related to history, art, and culture are taking place from October 31 to November 28.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Frederick Barrett Sechreist of San Marcos, Texas, was seen on video carrying a gas canister outside of Congregation Beth Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The [Biden] administration abstained on an issue of hate and bigotry,” said Rabbi Yaakov Menken, managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values. “This is not moral leadership.”
The cynical use of human rights organizations as a cover fuels terror ism and hurts organizations that do real work for civil society.
Virginia Tech’s Graduate and Professional Student Senate members implement the academic boycott on campus and in their own classrooms.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price: “The delegation provided a verbal briefing on information that they had on certain groups. They provided written materials. We’ve provided those written materials to our counterparts in the administration.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said Ben & Jerry’s decision violated his office’s policy against the BDS movement against Israel.
"Those who float money to groups that are connected to terror must be held to account for the murder, misery, and suffering their funding has paid for."
Religious women sometimes felt uncomfortable approaching rabbis, opting to either ask the question through a male messenger or not ask the question at all.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israelis have been tweeting photos at weddings, restaurants, the beach, bars and concerts, dancing in bomb shelters, on hikes—with the satirical hashtag #SadSadIsrael.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Nonetheless, a convincing majority of Virginia's Jews voted Democratic.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Bidding had reached $3,400 when the auction was suspended pending a Nov. 16 hearing, following an outcry from Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors.
Fadah Jassem is being criticized for reposting anti-Israel tweets, as well as omitting Israel's flag in an introductory tweet about the countries in the Middle East.
By Israel Hayom
The “extremely rare” stamps are expected to sell for $30,000-$40,000, says Tzolman’s Auction • European Jewish Association chairman appeals to Israeli Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar to halt the “despicable sale.”
"The PFLP operates an organizational and military apparatus, including a network of purported civilian institutions."
Rabbi Yudi Steiner, director of the Rohr Chabad Center at GW, said “what I’m hoping to do today is lead by example and model how I think the Jewish response, from Jewish students especially, should be, and that is what we will talk about the rally.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
James Vincent, 44, was found guilty on Wednesday of randomly attacking Rabbi Menachem Moskowitz, 52, and shouting anti-Semitic slurs as he tried to strangle the victim.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“Since the establishment of the council 15 years ago, it has decided to blame and condemn Israel, not 10 times like Iran, or 35 times like Syria. No, the Human Rights Council has attacked Israel with 95 resolutions. Compared to 142 against all other countries combined.”
The increasing prevalence of lactose intolerance is one of the key factors driving the growth of the kosher food industry.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
“Instead of amplifying voices of coexistence trying to effect real change on the ground, those who support a boycott are only creating more division,” said Ari Ingel, director of Creative Community for Peace.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), who backs the BDS movement, has long accused Israel of mistreating "Palestinian" children.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It showcases a historical collection dedicated to the Dreyfus affair, including more than 500 documents, objects, photographs, songs, posters and other items.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The center will be dedicated to the dissemination of his leadership lessons and values in classrooms, communities and through public discussion.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel said its decision was due to NGO financing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terror group.
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.
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