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Two worshippers in a synagogue on Passover saved a child from death in a burning car that exploded shortly after the rescue. The worshippers rushed to the burning vehicle after hearing the family’ scream for help, and they found the toddler strapped in a car seat. The worshippers, Moshe Kupperman and a second man, identified […]
A survivors’ daughter serving in the IDF brings pride and joy to a Holocaust survivor.
There is lobbying going on both for and against including J Street in the Conference of Presidents.
By JTA
William Rapfogel, the ousted leader of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty in New York, reportedly will plead guilty for his role in a scheme to steal more than $7 million from the social service agency. Rapfogel, who had served as CEO and president of the Met Council from 1992, was scheduled to enter a […]
By JTA
Closed-minded liberal sophomoics think that anyone against Ground One Mosque and for profiling possible terrorists is a racist.
By Roman Mokrinsky / Tazpit News Agency
Tensions continue to mount in eastern Ukraine, with reports of casualties continuing to stream out of the provinces in dispute,
By JTA
A Holocaust memorial and the grave of the brother of the late Lubavitcher rebbe were vandalized in Ukraine, amid a string of anti-Semitic attacks in the country.
It is no wonder that Marionville is ”the home of the white squirrels.” Black ones wouldn’t stand a chance, forget about Jewish ones.
By JTA
Jordan’s foreign minister summoned the Israeli ambassador to protest what it called Israel’s “violations” on the Temple Mount. The Jordanian government told Ambassador Daniel Nevo that recent clashes between Muslim worshippers and Israeli soldiers on the Temple Mount a violation of the peace treaty between Israel and Jordan. The Temple Mount was closed to visitors […]
The chisel was found along with a gold bell that may have been on the clothes of the High Priest.
Chabad.org interviews Nikolayev 's chief rabbi on the firebomb attack in the Ukraine. Here is an excerpt...
Anti-semitic attacks have escalated with the firebombing of a synagogue in the Ukraine. Watch the video of the attack...
By Shalom Bear
As Rabbi Stav said, "You’re free to think what you want. But do you want me to recognize Chelsea Clinton’s child as a Jew?"
In 1941, the Jews of Kiev received a similar leaflet. When they showed up the next day, more than 34,000 were murdered.
By Shalom Bear
No, it's not another Haredi protest against the draft, it's burning the Chametz.
Even the Egyptians didn't dare do this!
The attacker apparently targeted various Jewish centers.
By JTA
(JTA) — The parents of a Jewish student at an exclusive girls’ school in London called on the head of school to make a public statement about an incident in which a teacher told their daughter that she would be sent “to one of your gas chambers.” The incident at North London Collegiate School occurred […]
The prophecy in Joel, like most prophecies, is surreal, beautiful, and open to many interpretations.
90% of Israelis will participate in a Seder, and 80% of "secular" Jews believe in God. Not bad.
The IDF has stocked up for Passover, and hopes the citizens will enjoy touring the countryside (but don't hike in any minefields).
There is nothing like a good round of anti-Semitism to sober up Jews to move to Israel.
If you are looking for a hotel room for Passover in Mitzpeh Ramon in the Central Negev, start looking elsewhere. Roman Abramovich, owner of Britain’s Chelsea soccer club, has booked all 111 rooms in the Beresheet Hotel in the mountain desert resort city, the London Daily Mail reported. Abramovich reportedly will fly to Israel today […]
American Jews are increasingly buying more hand-made matzah as well as American-made manufactured matzah. All at the expense of Israeli exports, according to Kosher Today. Israeli exports used to hold approximately 40 percent of the American market but has declined by 11 percent. Sales of hand-made “shmurah matzah” have soared by nearly 15 percent. One […]
By JTA
Alan Gross suspended his hunger strike Friday after a week at the behest of his elderly mother. “Alan’s mother asked him to stop the fast,” Jill Zuckman, the spokeswoman of the family of the State Department subcontractor imprisoned in Cuba, told JTA. “He agreed to do that.” Gross, who launched his fast April 3, told […]
Streets were blocked, garbage burned, and some general mayhem ensued after a Haredi draft dodger was arrested.
By Shalom Bear
The state has demanded back NIS 84,000 for the time the man was not studying in Yeshiva, when he claimed he was.
By JTA
The Council of Europe has climbed down from along and weak limb by issuing a letter that in effect neutralizes a resolution by its parliament that equated mutilation of female genitals and non-medical circumcision of boys for religious purposes. The Council called them “by no means comparable.” The Council of Europe’s leadership sent a letter […]
By JTA
A sapling taken from the tree that grew outside the attic where teen Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was hidden will be planted at the U.S. Capitol. The tree will be planted on the west front lawn on April 30. Saplings taken from the tree have been planted around the world. The tree, at more than […]
It might be best to say the Traveler’s Prayer on the airplane before putting on tefillin.
Hirsi Ali's critics wanted her silenced; Brandeis granted their wish.
Oh, man, it’s the end of an era.
By JTA
Maryland lawmakers failed to vote on a bill that would have required the French rail firm SNCF to pay compensation to Holocaust survivors in order to work on a new line. The bill did not progress past committee hearings in the state legislature, where the 2014 legislative session ended Monday night. State Sen. Joan Carter […]
By JTA
Members of the Jewish community were among the demonstrators protesting the construction of a controversial monument to the Hungarian victims of the German occupation, implying that the Hungarian government bore no responsibility for the death of Jews. Work on the statue began Tuesday in downtown Budapest, according to Klubradio, a news station known to be […]
Brandeis buckled to those who embrace diversity and tolerance only of their own views.
By JTA
A French mayor from the far-right National Front party evicted from city-owned offices an anti-racism group inspired by the Dreyfus trial. Steeve Briois, who was elected last month to run the town of Henin-Beaumont, ordered the Human Rights League, or LDH, to clear out of its workspace last week, LDH President Pierre Tartakowsky told JTA. […]
By JTA
American-Jewish contractor Alan Gross has gone on a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment in a Cuban jail and the lack of American assistance. “I began a fast on April 3rd in protest of the treatment to which I am subjected by the governments of Cuba and the United States,” Gross said in a statement […]
Celebrate Israel Parade should be successful, without anti-Israel BDSers parading down 5th Avenue!
The holder of a vast trove of potentially Nazi-looted artwork has agreed to cooperate with officials
Jews of Kaifeng, China will have their first traditional seder this year!
These students are happy, proud Zionists celebrating the civil rights movement of the Jewish people.
‘Yesterday I was a Muslim. Today I am a Jewish man.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
There is nothing like a war of anti-Semites against anti-Semites to encourage Aliyah. Ukrainian Jewish immigration to Israel has risen 70 percent in 2014 amid the recent political upheaval in that country. According to the Jewish Agency for Israel, 375 new immigrants from Ukraine arrived in the first three months of 2014, compared with 221 […]
Israeli ex-Pres. Moshe Katsav has requested a Passover prison leave though he isn't eligible.
By JTA
The Jewish community in Milan is confronting an apparent case of embezzlement in which millions of dollars were removed from the community bank accounts.
By JTA
A Dutch Jewish organization rediscovered two ancient ritual baths that had been forgotten after the Holocaust.
By Shalom Bear
30,000 Haredim recently received their permanent IDF exemptions, but now the Haredi community isn't meeting their minimal draft quotas.
Masbia Soup Kitchen Network to provide 18,000 meals this Passover season. Volunteer!
By JTA
Rivka Haut, a foremost advocate for agunot, Orthodox women who have been refused a religious divorce and also a founder of the Women of the Wall founder was buried this week after she succumbed to pancreatic cancer at the age of 71. At the Women of the Wall prayer service on Tuesday, the worshipers recited […]
By JTA
A dozen Canadian border security officials raided the compound of the fringe Haredi Orthodox sect Lev Tahor Wednesday and arrested seven members believed to be in violation of immigration laws. Two families in the Lev Tahor community are at the center of an ongoing child custody case, including one family who fled to Guatemala, the […]
One or more anti-Semites sent a package of suspicious white powder and a photograph of Nazis to the home of Ireland’s Justice Minister Alan Shatter on Wednesday. Security officials raised an emergency alert, and a bomb squad arrived to investigate. Officials concluded the powder was harmless baking powder. The photograph showed Nazi soldiers at a […]
By JTA
Workers began demolishing a wall in Warsaw near the spot where Jews were gathered for transport to the Treblinka concentration camp, but a city official said it will be rebuilt and was torn down so trees and vegetation could be cut. The wall borders the square in the former Warsaw Ghetto known as the Umschlagplatz […]
By JTA
What do expect from a man who also wants a law that prohibits “promoting” homosexuality and grants citizenship embryos?
By JTA
A Russian Jewish group is preparing to open a kosher “Shachar Club” nightclub in the center of Moscow Saturday night, the Russia-language Israeli news site izrus.co.il reported. “Jewish youth in Moscow should have somewhere with an easy, relaxed atmosphere to hang out, discuss their identity, or just have fun,” a co-founder of the new club, […]
By JTA
The Atlanta Hawks toured the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum accompanied by the survivor mother-in-law of the NBA team’s owner, Bruce Levenson. Players and most of the coaching staff, along with Levenson and General Manager Danny Ferry, made the visit to the Washington museum. They were joined by Irene Boyarsky, 85, who spent time in a […]
The oldest surviving synagogue building in the United States was evacuated Tuesday night after New York firefighters discovered cracks in columns supporting the second floor. The structure was built in 1849 and was the home of Congregation Anshe Chesed before being bought in 1986 by the Spanish sculptor, Angel Orensanz. The center is an art […]
By JTA
“There is still a subset of Americans who are deeply infected with anti-Semitism.
On April 1, 1933, the Nazis carried out their first nationwide boycott of Jewish businesses. Today we would call that BDS.
By JTA
Televangelist Pat Robertson said Jews are too busy “polishing diamonds” to do weekend chores. Conservative activist Rabbi Daniel Lapin appeared on the “700 Club” Monday with Robertson to discuss what makes Jews successful. “What is it about Jewish people that make them prosper financially? You almost never find Jews tinkering with their cars on the […]
No one really believes it will happen this year, and it may not even be “kosher,” but there’s nothing like faith.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited the matza bakery in Kfar Chabad on Tuesday, two weeks before the beginning of Passover. "At home, I have eaten this matza for years.” he said. “Today, for the first time, I am also preparing it myself. I am very excited. I wish the entire Jewish People a Happy Passover." […]
By JTA
An Italian tourist tried to smuggle a piece of barbed wire from the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum out of Poland in his suitcase. The man was detained Sunday by border guards at the airport in Krakow. The tourist said he found the rusty piece of wire, which is nearly 16 inches long, on the ground. “During interrogation, […]
By JTA
Award-winning Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai is preparing a film about the AMIA Jewish center bombing in Buenos Aires. The Brazilian production company Prana Films will produce the movie based on the 1994 bombing attack on the center that left 85 dead and hundreds wounded. One venue will be the Paraguayan city of Ciudad del Este, […]
By JTA
Police in Malmo arrested two people who tried to break into a Jewish community building during a demonstration that featured anti-Semitic slogans. Five people gathered outside the Jewish community center in Malmo’s center on and tried to force their way inside past security, the Sydsvenskan regional daily newspaper reported. The intruders stopped at the gate, […]
The Jews who were ready to buy Second Temple history are no less guilty than the Arabs who stole and tried to sell it.
The collaboration's conferences will ignite Jewish learning and Israeli study for Russian Jews.
Iran's Chief Rabbi, Chacham Rabbi Yosef Hamadani Cohen died over Shabbat.
By JTA
Being a Jew in the Diaspora usually means having to defend the host country in the vain hope it will guarantee their safety.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Before Roosevelt’s ambassador to Nazi Germany had enough of Hitler, he muzzled American Jews anti-Nazi protests.
By JTA
A German-born Internet tycoon who is fighting extradition from New Zealand to the United States for racketeering is under fire for admitting he owns a rare signed copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Kim Dotcom, whose actual name is Kim Schmitz, is the founder of MegaUpload, a file-transfer website that U.S. authorities shut down in 2012. […]
By JTA
A prayer book developed for use by Jews in the U.S. military will be released this week, the first of its type published since World War II. Reform, Orthodox and Conservative rabbis cooperated in creating the prayer book, which was commissioned by the JWB Jewish Chaplains Council. The chaplains’ council, a program of the Jewish […]
By JTA
It is not wonder why aliyah from France is increasing, but it is surprising more don't come.
By JTA
A 65-year-old Haredi Orthodox man from London visiting New York for his grandson’s wedding was attacked early Tuesday morning in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park as he left the wedding reception. The attackers smashed their victim’s face into the sidewalk, and he was treated at a local hospital for a split lip and chipped […]
By JTA
Another New York City man has pleaded guilty to being part of a group of men who used violent means in exchange for pay to force Jewish husbands to give their wives religious divorces. Simcha Bulmash, 30, of Brooklyn pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Trenton, N.J., to participating in the extortion ring, […]
Either Obama or Kerry must tell the Saudis, bluntly, that they cannot have it both ways, Hier said.
By JTA
Irwin Cotler, a veteran human rights activist and member of Canada’s parliament, says being banned from Russia is an “honor.” When Russia issued its blacklist of 13 Canadians on Monday, Cotler was quick to express his pleasure at being included. ”I wear my exclusion from Russia as a badge of honor and am proud to […]
The Swedish-based H & M clothing chain has recalled thousands of vest tops adorned with a skull inside a Star of David after angry complaints from customers. “The order has been stopped and the others have been pulled,” said a H & M spokeswoman. “This was because of the feedback we received.” H M rejected […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Putin is right. There is not anti-Semitism in Russia. They simply hate Jews.
By JTA
Sheldon Adelson will host a dinner featuring former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on the eve of a conference of the Republican Jewish Coalition. Adelson, the casino magnate seen as a kingmaker in the Republican Party because of his willingness to spend tens of millions of dollars in an election, will host the dinner Thursday night […]
9,400 Mishloach Manot packages were delivered to IDF soldiers on Purim.
Saudi Arabia denied visa to a Jerusalem Post reporter who isn't Israeli and never lived in Israel.
Sources in the kosher food industry are speculating that a new major supermarket deal will have a positive effect on kosher food sales. Cerberus Capital Management appears to be making a major investment into the supermarket industry by acquiring Safeway in addition to the Albertson’s chain which it already owns. Together, the two grocery chains […]
When will Jews come to the conclusion that they can live as non-Jews in the Diaspora or as Jews in Israel?
By JTA
A new survey of anti-Semitic attitudes in Hungary showed up to 40 percent of respondents accepted some anti-Semitic attitudes. Conducted in December and commissioned by the Action and Protection Foundation, a watchdog on anti-Semitism of the Jewish community, the survey revealed that among those who accepted some anti-Semitic stereotypes, the proportion of people who displayed […]
Peretz Sontag, a widely respected Orthodox Jew from Monsey who has been missing for 10 days, was found dead in his car that crashed over a ravine. Police are not treating the death as a suicide. After he was reported missing, police said that Sontag had been depressed and indicated he might harm himself. His […]
By Adam Kredo
A Jewish teacher from Paris told police that three men had assaulted and cursed him in Arabic before drawing a swastika on his chest.
According to the AMCHA Initiative, anti-Semitism on U.S. campuses is "growing at an alarming rate."
Last week, the Haredi politicians and Aryeh Deri in particular couldn't get enough of Labor (Avoda) leader Yitchak Herzog. It looks like that party is over.
Swastikas, graffiti stating "kill all the Jews," and little kids playing "jail the Jew" in Bedford, Massachusetts.
By JTA
Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff said in a prison interview that he does not feel he “betrayed the Jews.” Madoff, 70, is serving a 150-year sentence at the medium-security federal prison in Butner, N.C., for a scheme believed to be the largest of its kind in U.S. history — one that affected a disproportionate number of […]
By JTA
Robert Strauss, the son of small-town Texas shopkeepers who became an adviser to presidents of both parties, died Wednesday at the age of 95. He helped found in 1945 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, the energy law firm that pioneered powerhouse lobbying after its 1971 move to Washington. Strauss, whose parents ran a general […]
What would have been the reaction if the actor dressed up as KKK members, just for the sake if history?
Norway’s health minister said Wednesday the countryman no intention of banning religious circumcisions but should restrict the religious practice to be carried out only in hospitals. "If the children are circumcised in hospitals by competent personnel, we will prevent complications," Health Minister Bent Høie told the Aftenposten newspaper. "This is the most realistic way to […]
By JTA
The Hungarian Jewish community held a memorial event in front of the downtown Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest Wednesday to mark the 70th anniversary of the occupation of Hungary by the Nazi-led German Army. The event, sponsored by the Jewish community but open to the public, comes after representatives of Mazsihisz, the Association of Hungarian […]
From the standpoint of the Arabs, Jews indeed are guilty of incitement so long as Israel exists.
By JTA
Jewish Toulouse leader tells young Jews to leave France.
By JTA
An alleged former medic at Auschwitz was arrested in Germany on accusations that he was an accessory to murder. The name of the 93-year-old man was not released in accordance with German privacy laws. He is accused of serving as a medic at the concentration camp in September 1944. Eight transports arrived at Auschwitz during […]
“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose” – Janis Joplin.
September 18, 2026 
