יום חמישי, ו׳ תשרי תשפ״זThursday, September 17, 2026
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Hundreds of pilgrims from Israel and other countries flock to the Egyptian Delta village of Demito every January.
Aharon and Tzvia Karov prove that faith and belief in a better future is what keeps Israel alive.
Free speech for haters but not for those who quote the haters, according to Brandeis students.
By Rachel Levy
Once again, Hamas has produced a bunch of dung about Israel's activities on -- and under -- the Temple Mount. Do Arabs really believe it?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Egypt gives the Jews a reminder not to go back there.
Bullet holes in an identifiably Jewish-owned building Friday morning makes this the third such attack on Jews in Paris this week.
By JTA
Argentina’s president Christina Fernandez has accepted an official Jewish godson for the first time in the country’s history to help counter legend of death to a seventh son. She described in seven tweets her meeting with her new godson, Yair Tawil, a member of a Chabad-Lubavitch family. He was adopted as a godson under a […]
Don’t mess with these Jews.
A kosher restaurant is the scene of the second shooting incident at a Jewish site in Paris this week.
Greek Jewish cemetery vandalized, graffiti called for "six million more."
United Synagogue Youth teen board members are told ban is lifted on dating non-Jews, but "important" to date within the faith.
Gross jailed for his work on USAid project.
The bullet just missed the Rabbi and his assistant.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
When Mark Halawa lights his family’s menorah during Chanukah, it is not without recalling his unique journey as a Kuwaiti Muslim to Orthodox Judaism.
Thousands of British Jews fought an anti-Israel boycott.
The question now is this definite proof that Jews lived in the ancient settlement near Carmel?
It’s cute, inventive and raises an interesting question n Jewish law on appointing a representative to perform a mitzvah.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The oldest continuously running social welfare organization in Israel, Colel Chabad, is hosting its annual retreat for 260 orphans and widows this Channukah.
The results of the poll may cause people to start changing their minds.
“Both sides shall respect and protect the listed below religious rights of Jews, Christians, Moslems and Samaritans.” – Oslo Accords.
By JTA
Oscar-winner “Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport” has been selected for permanent preservation in the Library of Congress by the National Film Registry. The film, released in 2000, documents the rescue of some 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi-dominated Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia in the months leading up to World War II. […]
Four arrested in crackdown on anti-assimilation group Lehava.
This is the first flask of ritually pure olive oil made in 2000 years.
Is Sydney also going to turn out the lights on Christmas trees?
By JTA
“It was crucial to my survival knowing that I was not forgotten.“
After 5 years in jail, Cuba has released Jewish-American Alan Gross.
By Sean Savage
The Cincinnati case helped clarify what cities can and cannot do concerning access to public places.
By JTA
Jeb Bush announced his intention to “actively” explore the presidency in a Christmas and Hanukkah greeting message. “Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!” the former Florida governor Bush said in a Facebook message posted Tuesday. He described conversations he had with his family over Thanksgiving. “As a result of these conversations and thoughtful consideration of the […]
High housing prices are blamed, but has anyone suggested that working for a living might help?
Report determines mosque fire blamed on "Jewish settlers" was actually an electrical fire.
By Rachel Levy
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lost no time this year in publicly offering warm Chanukah greetings to the nation's Jewish community, even ahead of US Pres. Obama.
More than 1,000 high school seniors from 25 Jewish schools across France will light the Hanukkah menorah together on Thursday in Jerusalem. Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky who said that the French Jewish students' arrival in Israel is "a massive expression of solidarity that reflects the warm and unique connection between the French Jewish community […]
By JTA
Swastikas were found spray-painted on a Tufts University building for the third time in nearly two years. The latest swastikas were found Saturday morning on the back wall of the Lewis Hall dormitory on the Somerville, Mass., campus, Boston.com reported. In June, swastikas were found on the university’s Granoff Family Hillel Center. In April 2013, […]
By JTA
The ‘homely’ ancient rock, discovered in 1993, adds evidence of King David’s existence.
“Leftists don’t care about Arabs, settlers are the true Jews. Leftists warned me I will be the first in the gas chambers."
By JTA
Sotloff, a grandson of Holocaust survivors, made aliyah in 2005.
By Shalom Bear
The gas deal would supply Jordan for 15 years, at a cost of 15 billion dollars.
By JTA
Anti-Semites always are around to remind Jews to be scared.
By JTA
A Golden Globes award will help women still chained by obstinate husbands.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The French police made five new arrests related to the shooting at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels this past May in which four people, including an Israeli couple, were killed in the attack. A spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor’s office, Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre, said that three men and two women were arrested Tuesday in […]
By JTA
The ban was ruled unconstitutional by the narrowest of margins in a 5-4 vote.
By JTA
Vice President Joe Biden will assist in the lighting this year of the Hanukkah menorah on the ellipse in front of the White House. Biden’s participation on Dec. 16, the first night of the holiday, marks the 35th anniversary of the first lighting of the “National Menorah,” an event sponsored by American Friends of Lubavitch, […]
Footage clearly shows that police did not use excessive violence.
By JTA
At least a dozen headstones were desecrated and upended at a Jewish cemetery in Santiago del Estero, an Argentine city of nearly 250,000 and located about 620 miles northeast of Buenos Aires. The attack, which is believed to have occurred over the weekend, was discovered on Monday by a cemetery worker. “Photos were scattered and […]
Police shot the attacker.
By JTA
Prof. Jan Grabowski of the University of Ottawa in Canada was awarded the 2014 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research for his book memory of Holocaust survivor Abraham Meir Schwarzbaum and his family members who were murdered in the Holocaust. His book “Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland” […]
By JTA
Gal Mekel, the second Israeli to play in the NBA, has signed with the New Orleans Pelicans. Mekel played for the Pelicans on Saturday in a 120-100 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, a day after his signing was announced. He missed his four shots and went scoreless, but the 6-3 point guard handed out […]
By JTA
A 10-year-old Brooklyn Haredi girl was killed and her mother, nine months pregnant, was injured when they were hit by a minivan while crossing the street in the Borough Park neighborhood. The mother, Sarah Friedman, was taken to the hospital, where she delivered a healthy baby girl — her fifth child — on Tuesday night. […]
The American liberal Jewish guilty conscience always plays itself out to identify with those who are not Jewish.
Document proves she not only slept with senior Nazis but also spied for them.
By JTA
A student at the Torat Haim yeshiva near Moscow was badly beaten outside the yeshiva.
But Mendelevitch had another objective in returning to a place he says “brings back no good memories.”
By JTA
It's not even safe to be thought you are Jewish these days.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Nearly 83 percent of Jewish Israeli teenagers encounter online anti-Semitism, and more than 51 percent are targeted due to their nationality, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) In the same poll last year, 69 percent of Israeli teens reported being exposed to Web anti-Semitism, including 36 percent due to nationalistic […]
By JTA
American-Jewish contractor Alan Gross completed his fifth year in prison in Cuba on Tuesday, one-third of a 15-year prison term for “crimes against the state, and his wife fears he will not survive much longer. Gross, 65, of Potomac, Md., was leaving Cuba when he was arrested in December 2009 for setting up Internet access […]
By Kosher Today
Coffee for five shekels a cup not available.
By JTA
It will be harder to “never forget” when the survivors and the butchers no longer are alive.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
As part of a joint Yad Vashem project, Israeli border police stationed in Jerusalem ‘adopt’ Holocaust survivors living in neighborhoods across the capital.
By Sandy Eller
Demetrious’ insistence on handmaking his chocolaty treasures with only the highest quality ingredients paid off in customer loyalty...
By NGO Monitor
“Matti Friedman’s revelations regarding the efforts to censor NGO Monitor and me as its president are not entirely surprising,” said Professor Gerald Steinberg.
Former Prisoner of Zion Yosef Mendelevitch made an emotional return to the city where he was imprisoned in the 1970s to join hundreds of Jews from across Russia for the 4th Annual Limmud FSU (former Soviet Union) in St. Petersburg this weekend. St. Petersburg claims the second largest Jewish community in Russia today with about […]
By JTA
The time has come for the Tigers to start looking for a rabbi and chazan.
By JTA
He explains he was just following that other people were doing. Sound familiar?
Israel gets a mensch for Chief of Staff along with a Yiddishe Mama.
Sing HaTikvah, eat kosher food, watch the basketball game and feel like a real Jew.
The crimes from the Nazi regime still are being discovered.
“Ninety percent of them [Arabs] don’t know what is written in the Kuran.”
By JTA
The Gurlitt Museum promises all looted art will be returned to the rightful owners.
Liberal Jews are for tolerance until they also have to be tolerant.
Maybe he thought those white hoods are prayer shawls although they are closer to being burkas.
U.S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg had heart surgery on Wednesday, Nov. 26.
Pollard hit American where it hurts the most.
By JTA
Only 49 US States have a Chabad House. Is this holding back the Moshiach?
According to his definition, anyone who wants to pray on the Temple Mount is a "right-wing extremist.”
Jordan has headed down the dark road of open antisemitism.
By Tzvi Zucker / Tazpit News Agency
Fierce debate, both inside Israel and abroad, has been raging over a piece of legislation that would become a Basic Law. This legislation, dubbed "the Nationality Bill", would enshrine in law the definition of Israel as a state of the Jewish people.
By JTA
The task force will aim at keeping Americans from joining ISIS and other radical Muslim murder gangs.
And we can already hear Obama and Kerry telling him not to upset Allah and thank God on the Temple Mount.
Why not? Obama already lives like he is on his own island.
Har Nof Rabbi: We Have Much to Learn From the Druze Community
Israelis must not fall into the trap of fear that would mean victory for the enemy.
By JTA
New York police have arrested a 23-year-old Brooklyn man was arrested for assaulting an Orthodox Jewish couple in Manhattan this summer. A police department spokesman confirmed to JTA that Mustafa Mashni was charged with assault, as first reported on the Jpupdates website. The victims, in their 20s, were walking on the Upper East Side at […]
The two Jerusalem Arabs who slaughtered Jews Tuesday morning attacked in the middle of the “Amidah” silent prayer, according to one of the worshippers. “Yosef” told Israel Radio that he heard shot during the prayer, turned around and saw one Arab shooting in all directions. Seconds afterwards, the second murderer emerged with a butcher knife […]
By JTA
A Canadian university professor was charged in Paris on Saturday in the deadly 1980 synagogue bombing in Paris that killed four and injured more than 40. The arraignment of Hassan Diab came hours after he arrived in Paris after being extradited from Canada following a six-year fight to prevent it. Canada’s Supreme Court last week […]
However, he murderer is happy that he thinks he made Jews feel less secure.
The UK Board of Deputies of Jewish Organizations voted to admit the British version of J Street.
By JTA
The summer war between Israel and Hamas released an explosion of online anti-Semitic hate speech in several European countries, an international watchdog reported.
Welcome to Post-Nazi Europe.
Now will there be advice that Jews should not anger anti-Semites and not walk to synagogue?
Netanyahu’s spokesman affirms the “status quo” gives Jews the right to visit the Temple Mount.
By JTA
The German envoy has a perverse version of “never forget.”
“The Mohammed who stole Christmas – and Yom Kippur.”
The slashing of government child subsidies is one of the primary reasons for the dramatic rise of working Hareidi women.
A video speech to the Federations GA focuses on Iran and Palestinian Authority incitement.
By Tibbi Singer
Published at Jewish Business News. Forget the old, scary Ku Klux Klan, welcome to the newly branded Klan, the Rocky Mountain Knights, which offers membership to Jews, Blacks, Gays and Latinos. This could all be a conspiracy thought up by Bed, Bath and Beyond, to sell more white sheets. Because no matter who you are, […]
By JTA
Illinois police found thousands of rounds of ammunition in the house of the suspect.
Neturei Karta forgets Amalek and remembers Amalek.
September 18, 2026 
