יום רביעי, ו׳ אלול תשפ״וWednesday, August 19, 2026
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By Atara Beck
“This is apparently a much bigger problem than what we’re aware of. One of the things we want to do is not only clarify this case, but also raise the consciousness of people in Israel.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A French court ruled the Muslim murderer could not be prosecuted because he had been high on marijuana.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Progressives don't like the IHRA definition because it correctly equates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.
By Chabad.org
Giving children time to stop and think about what’s important.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A simultaneous rally will be held in London near the French embassy.
The event also featured musical performances and a poetry recital, centered on the theme of interfaith relations.
The Unidas Podemos and Más Madrid parties, as well as presidential candidate Pablo Iglesias, have a history of anti-Jewish, anti-Israel action and rhetoric.
Jerusalem believes that Washington is dashing toward a deal with Tehran and that the most it can do is mitigate the circumstances.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
An organization calls on the general public to avoid the show, arguing that art is being used to normalize “colonialism and repression.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Edmund Di Liscia said that doing so would be “extremely humiliating and deeply jarring to my psyche and soul.”
Republican Jewish Coalition executive director Matt Brooks criticized Democrats for sharing the stage with Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas, calling him a Holocaust denier and longtime funder of terrorism.
This new violent anti-Semitic trend is developing in tandem with the Muslim month of Ramadan.
Yehuda was a survivor of Aushwitz. This is his story.
Avoiding this designation was Norway, which has a comprehensive national plan to combat the scourge, as well as sufficient funds for security measures to protect the Jewish community.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to AIPAC, the bill is both “unnecessary and redundant,” as conditions already exist on aid for Israel, which can only be used for legitimate self-defense and internal security.
How many questions can you answer?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The synagogue is the halachic and historic hub of Jewish life, and this program is designed to highlight that,” said OU executive vice president Rabbi Moshe Hauer.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Celebrations during the day include a reception at the President’s residence honoring 120 excelling IDF soldiers, the International Bible Contest and the Israel Prize ceremony in Jerusalem.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The ceremony, first held in 2019 with some 1,200 people, was attended by hundreds of religious soldiers and members of the bereaved families.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel has 9,327,000 citizens, more than 11 times its population of 806,000 at the time of the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948.
By Israel Hayom
“I feel a very personal connection to this place and to Joseph who is buried here, and everything he went through,” says Jonathan Pollard, while dedicating the scroll at the biblical burial site.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
During the ceremony, six torches were lit, and the stories of the six Holocaust survivors who lit them were presented during short videos. Shmuel Naar, Zehava Gealel, Yossi Chen, Halina Friedman, Sara Fishman, and Manya Bigunov lit the torches.
The Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum in stark contrast to what legislators intended when they approved the bill.
Decades-long study provides basis for close monitoring of people who have experienced trauma early in life and the impact it can have on long-term health.
The advent of the vaccines, coupled with Israel's vast vaccination campaign, assisted by Israelis and Jews who hold prominent positions in vaccine-making companies, reinforced the anti-Semitic responses.
By Edwin Black
Saeb Erekat, a top Palestinian negotiator, was rushed to a Jerusalem hospital when he faced a COVID-19 respiratory crisis.
By Israel Hayom
“It is understandable that the level of anxiety is rising and concerns about communal safety are on everyone's minds,” says Anti-Defamation League national director and CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jewish victims comprise some 50 percent of crimes in this category with Muslims at 10 percent, and Catholics and other religions at 3 percent each.
Even the animals in the zoo are celebrating Pesach, at the Ramat Gan Safari.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The special event, which is usually held only once on Passover and once on Sukkot, was held on both Monday and Tuesday this Passover.
By Israel Hayom
According to the Saudi press, the last Jewish refugees from Yemen are seeking a country that will take them in, as they don’t wish to move to Israel.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The UNHRC is infamously biased against Israel, with nearly half of its resolutions focused solely on Israel while it ignores war, strife and atrocities committed around the globe.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We are traumatized. This is our home, this is our grocery store,” said a social-media post signed by leaders of the Boulder JCC.
“Each year we see that the number of emergency calls received by our organization rises dramatically over the holiday."
Just a few hundred individuals who migrated to Eastern Europe less than 1,000 years ago are the ancestors of nearly 10 million Ashkenazi Jews today.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Andrew Yang was asked to clarify his stance on the BDS movement following conflicting remarks he made at a forum on March 18 that was hosted by Emgage, a Muslim-American advocacy organization.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Why is this Passover different from all other Passovers?
Most profoundly concerning for the Jewish community is the portrayal of Jews, filtered through the lens of Critical Ethnic Studies, as ‘white’ and ‘privileged’.
Several members of the original ESMC advisory committee have been using false claims about the benefits of ethnic studies to ensure that Critical Ethnic Studies is taught in classrooms throughout the state.
“The ‘March of the Living’ connects between those who learned about the Holocaust firsthand and those who did not."
By Memri The Middle East Media Research Institute
Imam Mustapha Elturk: “Not all Jews are bad; some Jews and Christians are doing our work for us, as a matter of fact.”
A new policy paper by the Reut Institute, commissioned by the Julis Foundation for Multi-Disciplinary Thinking, suggests that a new strain of anti-Semitism is arising within the contemporary progressive discourse. A phenomenon Reut calls "erasive anti-Semitism," refers to the largely unintended consequence of contemporary progressive discourse, which de-facto negates the rights of Jews individually or […]
"Did you know that in 1915 the Armenian genocide was organized by Jews?”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Acts of hate like this are disgraceful and cowardly; that swastikas vandalized a home of Jewish students is especially reprehensible,” university leaders wrote in a joint statement.
It is possible today to study any topic that piques your interest, in a non-formal setting, including "Jewish telehealth."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Toms River, which was accused of placing unreasonable burdens on its growing Orthodox population, will modify its zoning code to reduce the “minimum acreage” for a house of worship from 10 acres to two.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Adam Elayan decided to make his story public so that someone “who may harbor the kind of prejudice I used to will see that hatred towards others is a choice we make, and like me, decide to make better choices.”
The huge selection of Tnuva’s delicious kosher l’Pesach dairy products is truly a feast for the eyes.
International Women’s Day in Azerbaijan is about revering mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters because they are holy, as he puts it.
The suspect attempted to enter a kosher supermarket.
“This entire process goes to the heart of what is wrong with Critical Ethnic Studies.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Uzra Zeya has been nominated as undersecretary for civilian security, democracy and human rights.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Palestinian Authority objects to making Cave of the Patriarchs accessible to people with disabilities.
MK Mai Golan wrote that the court ruling means that “an illegal infiltrator can undergo a reform conversion in 10 minutes and receive Israeli citizenship.”
"I feel so overjoyed at having saved this man’s life on Purim. It felt to me like I had won the lottery.”
So successful is this new language based on numbers, acronyms, and hidden images, that it has driven the formation of alternative social media sites.
"They tried to intimidate the Jewish community into silence, to force Jews to renounce their shared heritage, to exclude Jews from leadership."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
BDS Betty has accused Israel of “apartheid” and was one of the few members of Congress to vote against the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006, which aimed to curb and defund Hamas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang said he has an issue with organizations that don’t disavow “very, very violent tactics” towards Israel, though he doesn’t have an issue with individuals or activists “making a case for what they think is right.”
“The fact that this is happening around Purim is especially meaningful, as Purim tells the story of standing up to the genocide that Haman had planned for the Jews,” said Rabbi Shlomo Litvin.
By Ben Bresky
Purim has a unique status of celebrating two days of the Jewish holiday.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The chief rabbi of the United Kingdom gained international renown as a teacher of Jewish values and a proponent of inter-religious dialogue.
The Jewish student's legal advocates demand Tufts' president to intervene immediately, but were rejected.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
"2,500 years ago another Persian tyrant tried to destroy the Jewish people and just as he failed then – you will fail today.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Social media “influencer” Young Pharaoh has claimed Judaism was “made up for political gain” and promoted conspiracy theories.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We will continue to speak out on Israel, but [our] purpose is not to be an advocacy organization,” said new board president David Warshaw.
According to experts, there are very few extant Esther scrolls from the medieval period in general, and from the fifteenth century in particular.
Amid an arctic freeze, members of the Lone Star State opened doors to friends without power, cooked meals, arranged for medication pickups for the homebound, and, in one extreme case, mobilized to ensure that hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccines would not go to waste.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Surveillance footage shows a suspect drawing a swastika on a “private property” sign at the Rego Park Jewish Center in Queens, N.Y.
Organizations call on state officials to Investigate.
By Ariel Kahana
The campaign, spearheaded by UNICEF's Gaza and West Bank branch, is aimed at putting the IDF on the list of child rights abusers published annually by the U.N. Secretary General, says the watchdog group.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The court’s ability to “investigate, probe and render justice” is being undermined in the United States, says Omar.
The Palestinian Authority warned Arabs to not be tricked by intermediaries trying to buy land on behalf of the Jews.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Israel regional vice president of the Coalition for Jewish Values, called her new appointment “dangerous.”
Incidents of Israeli anarchists harassing residents of the Jordan Valley have become commonplace.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We are not the type of people to be scared. We’re not the type of people that would be silenced. We’re not the type of people to back down from what we believe in,” says student Jeremy Zelner.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Germany’s Ministry of Culture spokesman said the tombstones “are centuries-old evidence of Jewish roots and tradition in Mainz.”
By Eliana Rudee
“The purpose is to fill that gap by providing the first-ever examination of claims made under Item 7, and to provide a detailed analysis, citing to sources of fact and international law,” said researcher and writer Dina Rovner.elianneliana
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The use of the pig theme is intended to humiliate,” said CICAD.
In the letter, the pre-Communist era leader calls Zionism "one of the greatest movements of the present time."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel’s position is that the ICC lacks any jurisdiction on this matter because that no sovereign Palestinian state exists nor does any territory belonging to such an entity. Israel has not joined the Roman Statute.
By Israel Hayom
Maj. Gen. Itai Veruv, who heads the Israel Defense Forces Military Colleges, is overseeing a team that includes an expert in international law.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
MK Ariel Kallner is the head of the Knesset’s Lobby for the Fight Against Delegitimization and Anti-Semitism.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
He allegedly was part of an incident in 2012 where several staffers at the center’s ThinkProgress website were condemned for using anti-Semitic tropes of Jews dominating politics and money.
“In truth, I didn’t think that this story was going to end well."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
They were joined by Ahmed Bin Sulayem, executive chairman of the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The controversial story was moved to the archives on NBC (but not deleted), as per an editor’s note.
Unawareness about Holocaust history poses a challenge for TikTok, as 41 percent of the video-sharing network’s users are between ages 16 and 24.
The program sends Modern Orthodox, Religious Zionist rabbis, and educators to serve in communal and educational leadership positions in Jewish communities around the world.
Chiune Sugihara defied his own government’s orders by issuing handwritten transit visas in 1940 to more than 6,000 Lithuanian Jews, enabling them to escape Nazi-occupied Europe.
Free expression of their Jewish identity, a fair education, a safe learning environment, a comprehensive definition of antisemitism, and a fair protections.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A total of 5,300 survivors contracted the virus in the past year, and 17% died.
Yoram Haimi, Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist: “I have been excavating this site for ten years, but today I broke down.”
On Tuesday of the week of Parshat Beshalach some people read the section on the Manna as a Segula...
The Tzohar hotline will be staffed by trained rabbis and social workers 24 hours a day, six days a week.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Under the terms of the 1995 Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authority is responsible for the healthcare of Arabs under its control.
By Israel Hayom
The Tefillin were discovered as Polish authorities began to demolish buildings inside the Warsaw Ghetto.
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been used by anti-Semites to spread conspiracy theories against Jews around the world and against the State of Israel.
99% of the people reading this article may not realize the incredible importance of this year’s Tu B’Shvat.
The third draft curriculum is now being reviewed by the State Board of Education and is likely to be approved in March with few changes.
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