יום רביעי, ו׳ אלול תשפ״וWednesday, August 19, 2026
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The Israeli Embassy there held a ceremony honoring Slovakian Righteous Among the Nations. It awarded six coins and certificates to six families who risked their lives saving persecuted Jews during the Holocaust.
If visitors to Israel do bring their own, they will be taken away, and new ones will be provided that were grown in Israel, free of charge.
Prozbul is a halachic regulation designed to allow the collection of loans that were made during the Sabbatical year.
"It was an act of bravery, and we, the Jewish people, owe his offspring a debt of gratitude."
Even store signs in Hebrew must be removed, or else.
“Unearth the Land of the Bible” is a 10-day tour starting in April 2023, of archaeological digs at heritage and nature sites of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Shortly after being employed by World Vision, Mohammed El-Halabi began to use his position to benefit the Hamas terrorist organization
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Pro-Israel watchdog HonestReporting uncovered posts by freelancers that praise Hitler and the murder of Israeli civilians.
Germany is the world’s leading country in funding Israeli far-left organizations.
The special report “failed to speak with a single Orthodox rabbinic leader ... and hid from its audience the predominant cause of the current crisis,” said Rabbi Moshe Parnes.
By COLlive.com
“Now, our friends with and without disabilities can come together in harmony and make music to uplift others."
Upon notification of a possible hate crime, detectives from the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force will respond and conduct a thorough investigation.
Senior consultant to the Community Media Advocacy Centre Laith Marouf has a history of hate-filled social-media posts, including: “I have a motto: Life is too short for shoes with laces or for entertaining Jewish white supremacists with anything but a bullet to the head.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In one incident, two African-American teens chase a Jewish man down the street; in another, an African-American male sprays a fire extinguisher on a Jewish man.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The woke ice cream company sued parent company Unilever for transferring production rights to Israeli company.
Israel is very much afraid that Turkish President Erdogan will appoint Ufuk Ulutas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A former member of Iran’s national judo team was threatened by the Iran Judo Federation for having a friendly meeting with Israeli judoka Sagi Muki.
The Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, Bisan and Adameer are “branches of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine [PFLP],” says Israel’s Defense Ministry.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s ambassador to Berlin retweeted an article claiming the offending security guard was of “Arab descent,” and connected the incident with P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas’s claim that Israel had perpetrated “50 Holocausts.”
The army has not taken down the illegal Arab construction near Efrat or the illegal Bedouin shanty town of Khan al-Ahmar.
“We have seen the infiltration of ESG rating systems by anti-Semitic groups like BDS."
New Mexico is the first state to integrate IHRA into law via executive order, and the sixth state overall to incorporate IHRA into law.
The community built 15 buildings including a shul and a yeshiva.
Already embroiled in controversy for accusations of anti-Semitism, the Brooklyn college had included a vocal supporter of BDS in its search committee for an assistant dean for diversity, equity and inclusion.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Souraka Djabouri, 19, pleaded guilty to bodily harm without intent, theft and criminal damage for his attack on Rabbi Rafi Goodwin of Chigwell & Hainault Synagogue.
By COLlive.com
Rabbi Hecht’s influence has spread far and wide after his passing.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It is the second weekend in a row that someone has attacked Jews in the area.
Renowned Swiss architect Mario Botta designed the building.
By Israel Hayom
Tuesday’s incident was not the first time the Jordanians have allegedly refused entry to visitors clearly identifiable as Jews by their dress or ritual objects.
By Israel Hayom
Chabad is demanding the return of the Schneerson historical library archives, and has asked the Israeli government to freeze all proceedings to transfer the Alexander Court church compound in Jerusalem to Russia.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Cobb County’s history with anti-Semitism should have prevented something like this,” said the Jewish Federation of Atlanta.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I want to set Israel on fire with my own hands & watch it burn to ashes along with every Israeli in it. Call it what you want to call it idc,” Neveen Ayesh wrote in 2014.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The charges include reckless endangerment as a hate crime, criminal possession of a weapon, conspiracy, aggravated harassment and endangering the welfare of a child.
By NGO Monitor
Palestinian NGOs take a hypocritical approach towards children’s rights.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
NIONCUNY vows to “create networks and programs within the CUNY Jewish population to question, critique and unlearn Zionism. . ."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The victims of the forest executions were mostly inmates of the Soldau Nazi concentration camp killed between 1940 and 1944.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Belgium, France, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden release joint statement citing “insufficient evidence” to support the designation • U.N. threatens to blacklist Israel following report on deaths of Palestinian Authority minors.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“During the pandemic, our community has grown tremendously, and we are now able to provide more services,” said Rabbi Mendel Lifshitz.
The 18th century manuscript includes details from the first 130 years of the Portuguese Inquisition in Lisbon.
Yad Vashem has recognized about 28,000 Righteous Among the Nations.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The apparent reconciliation process is taking place despite the fact that the seemingly offensive Polish law is still in place, and although Israel and Poland still disagree on Holocaust-related issues, specifically it’s legacy and history.
New York City Council members grow frustrated with the lack of answers, action—and absence—by the administration and its representatives.
Nadav intends to continue setting aside time for Torah every single day, despite the demanding upcoming military service.
"He believed in the vaccine and invested every ounce of himself in realizing what seemed at the time a far-fetched fantasy."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A report by UN Watch exposed 120 UNRWA teachers who publicly called to murder Jews.
Mumbai is home to some 1,500 Jews, but the city does not have an organized Jewish community.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The makers of the Mapping Project are hiding their identity.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
37 nations and 865 entities around the world have adopted the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism.
By COLlive.com
Services are available 7 days a week, 365 days a year, with on-call availability 24 hours a day.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Labour is still infested with people who have antipathetic views of Jews, and the party’s vetting process is an offensive joke.”
In March of 2018, Rabbi Cherlow ruled that a genetically cloned pig or any other animal would be Kosher.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The New York City Police Department has released video footage of a suspect they are hoping to identify for drawing a swastika in front of a Jewish high school in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn.
Ribo was so moved by what he saw in a visit last October that he took out his guitar to entertain his new friends.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Goldschmidt, who has served as a rabbi in Moscow for the last 33 years, is also president of the Conference of European Rabbis.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Boris Pahor was arrested by the Nazis in 1944 and deported to Dachau, which he survived along with four other concentration camps.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Four town hall meetings, in addition to Zoom interviews for two people vying for a seat on a mayoral advisory board, took place on the Friday night before Memorial Day weekend.
Due to their exceedingly delicate state, the Torah scrolls were only brought out for a few minutes to be filmed.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jews are the target of 40% of all hate-crime incidents.
In 2020, NYU signed an agreement to resolve “without further investigation” a complaint filed with DOE over “a hostile environment” for Jewish students on campus.
Just after 8:30 Sunday morning, an employee at a school on Shalom Sharabi Street in Petah Tikvah told one of his colleagues that he wasn’t feeling well. He sat down on a bench and keeled over. His colleagues, who all had taken a CPR course, called emergency services and proceeded to attach the school’s defibrillator […]
Netanyahu had a Jerusalem Day message.
Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt takes on conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial and imbalanced criticism of Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The bill, which unanimously passed the State Assembly earlier this week, will now be sent to Gov. Kathy Hochul for consideration.
Rabbanit Bina founded Matan just over 30 years ago after she began teaching a group of women around her dining room table.
“Out of 28 items on the current world health assembly’s agenda,” said Neuer, “only one focused on a specific country—Israel.”
Bennett stressed repeatedly that social divides within Israel and the Jewish people were more dangerous to the country’s future than even external security threats.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Report: Despite forming more than 50% of Israeli exports, Israel Innovation Authority figures show the two communities’ participation in high-tech industry is declining.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The suspect threw the flammable items through the front gate of the Brotherhood Synagogue on Gramercy Park.
By COLlive.com
Chabad has long sought the return of its historic collection of Jewish and Chassidic books and manuscripts amassed by the Rebbes of Chabad and seized by Russia since WWII.
“To suggest there is not a need to combat anti-Semitism is not only offensive, but it’s also simply ignorant,” said Rabbi Shlomo Litvin, chairman of the Kentucky Jewish Council and director of Chabad of the Bluegrass, after Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) was the only member of Congress to oppose the resolution.
"Volunteers have come from all over the country and are active around the clock to provide emergency medical care in Meron."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
There were about 130,000 revelers at Mt. Meron, instead of the usual 500,000.
By COLlive.com
"We were founded to protect shuls from violence. But since then, we’ve seen attacks at stores and even on the streets. We decided we need to do something to protect our whole community.”
I've noticed many improvements in Shusha since my last visit there a year ago.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The assault follows two other incidents within the week, including an attack in which a rabbi was beaten by a man who yelled: “The Nazis should have killed you Jews.”
By COLlive.com
The cause of the fire is still unknown, and is under investigation.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Ben Ferencz, honored earlier this year by the State of Florida, was 27 when served as a Nazi prosecutor after the end of World War II.
Two leading Jewish conservatives blasted New York City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on May 6, claiming that museum staff told them they could not hold an event there if Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was invited to speak. The op-ed, titled “Persona Non Grata at […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It comes after video surfaced of an employee telling a Jewish passenger that those who were banned are “Jewish from JFK” and that it was the “Jewish people who were the mess, who made the problems.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“No family should be confronted with threatening symbols of hate, least of all on vacation,” said museum chair Michael Igel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rabbi Yehoshua Lefkowitz was in the Crown Heights neighborhood when he was approached by an unknown suspect who punched him in the head and kicked him in the legs.
By COLlive.com
The Chabad Center sustained major damage, including the loss of all the Torah scrolls and hundreds of books. The kitchen and other facilities were also destroyed.
By COLlive.com
National Prayer Day was created in 1952 by a joint Congressional resolution, and became a national holiday in 1988.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Does the editorial board believe Israel even has a right to exist? Because, if so, that line is coincidentally missing,” says Natalie Kahn, a student journalist and the president of Harvard’s Hillel.
What are the first mentions of oil and honey in the Bible?
A group of NGOs has partnered to submit millions of pieces of evidence in support of Israel, countering the preconceived narrative of the United Nations so-called Commission of Inquiry.
By COLlive.com
The rabbi's appointment was announced by President Donald Trump on January 29, 2020, along with those of two other new members.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In a letter to congregants, the rabbi vows: “We will not be deterred. We will not be made to feel unsafe in our own house of worship.”
"It's exciting, there's nothing else to say, it's very exciting."
The World Organization of Orthodox Communities and Synagogues called on world leaders to condemn Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar after he apparently called to attack synagogues around the world.
By Alan Zeitlin
Roughly 70,000 boxes were ordered; the packages will be sent to Hungary and then transferred to Ukraine.
According to media reports, Thomas Develin posted a photo of himself holding a gun with the message, “I’m at a Jewish school and about to make it everyone’s problem.”
The Holocaust historian and Emory University professor's nomination was brought to the floor of the Senate by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), who asked for unanimous consent.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rabbi Mendy Greenberg told Florida’s “Fox 4” that he hopes the teens will develop an appreciation for Judaism, and “hopefully, in the future, they’ll be advocates for the Jewish community.”
Such a curriculum would “marginalize Jewish students and fuel hatred and discrimination against the Jewish community.”
The researchers were were surprised to find remnants of the exotic spice vanilla from 2600 years ago.
The new forum is a direct outcome of the historic Abraham Accords and was announced last October at the first trilateral meeting of the Foreign Ministers of all three countries.
The man posted the video of his hate crime on TikTok.
865 entities around the world have adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism since 2016.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Community Security Trust is asking witnesses and victims to report the crimes to the police.
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