Iran might target Jewish leaders in the country, ASIO Director-General Burgess said.
Brandon Johnson mentioned the pro-Israel group despite it having never “spent a dime opposing you or any other candidate for local office,” the Jewish United Fund of Chicago wrote to the mayor.
“New York as we know it would not be New York as we know it without the Jews,” the prominent Reform rabbi told JNS.
The move is part of a growing effort by the Trump administration to root out Jew-hatred in Latin America, which flourished among leftist governments after Oct. 7.
Western observer tells JNS that Israel should seek tangible returns rather than being a silent partner.
The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem said it will sell products from Judea and Samaria at its annual Feast of Tabernacles gathering this month.
Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry compiled evidence challenging international claims following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre.
The military evaluated Home Front Command and logistics branches during unexpected operational emergency simulations across local sectors.
“This bill works very hard to balance our First Amendment constitutional rights between the right to free speech and the right to worship,” Rep. Tom Suozzi said.
Police are increasing patrols around the Jewish neighborhood for Shabbat and Yom Kippur following the incident.
Prosecutors say warden Samir Ousman Alsheikh “inflicted and ordered subordinates to inflict severe physical and mental pain and suffering on prisoners.”
‘I’m never going to forget this davening, two days or three days before Yom Kippur, where we’re again saying, ‘We’re here,’” Rabbi Haskel Lookstein told JNS.
“I did everything I could to not make a federal case out of this, and the mayor instead escalated and retaliated,” Margot Cleveland, who sued the Michigan city, told JNS.
The State Department weighed in, as the United Nations Security Council readies for its third straw poll to pick the new secretary-general.
“We’re all going to be in shul on Monday, and there isn’t going to be a shul in the world, no matter how small the minyan or how large the minyan, that doesn’t have somebody at the door guarding people, checking who comes in,” Deborah Lipstadt told JNS.
Israel’s National Security Minister slammed the slate led by Gen. (res.) Yair Golan, dubbing it “an antisemitic, anti-Israel party.”
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So far, it has awarded more than $8.5 million to 28 camps—12 in round one and 16 in round 2, including 23 overnight camps and five day camps.
The 2001 Durban Forum didn’t just pass a declaration. It handed activists a playbook: Weaponize the language of human rights to target one country.
INBI aims to advance Israeli biomedical research and accelerate the development of new therapies, bringing together 15 Israeli research institutions and medical centers to help move scientific research.
Three Alexander Muss High School summer programs focused on Jewish history, cultural experiences and entrepreneurship.
Merrill Eisenhower Atwater will discuss Holocaust remembrance, education and his great-grandfather’s legacy at the Knight Theater Sept. 30.
Study of more than 1.2 million Israelis finds kibbutz residents had significantly lower mortality risk than ultra-Orthodox and non-ultra-Orthodox Jews living in urban communities.
Affiliation of Caracas’s Colegio UE Moral y Luces “Herzl-Bialik” comes as Venezuela’s Jewish community works to recover from June earthquakes.
Remembrance in the Jewish tradition is a powerful call to action.
The organization’s 101 emergency center also received more than 2 million calls, while MDA collected nearly 282,000 blood units.
Recipes include traditional holiday foods alongside dishes influenced by Jewish cuisines from around the world.