(JNS) The Ohio Senate unanimously passed a bill on December 9th that would create the Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission.
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(JNS) Allan Englander usually commemorates Sept. 11 at the Tribeca Synagogue, where he was having breakfast after morning minyan that Tuesday in 2001 when he heard a plane had hit the World Trade Center. “We didn’t believe it at first—somebody called in, and we all rushed out and ran to the …
Land Rover North America has announced the reopening of its U.S. Land Rover Experience Centers, with a variety of programs designed to offer fun and rewarding drive experiences. Coached by experts and supported by safety practices, such as contactless signup and payment to help ensure the he…
(JNS) Arizona moved to divest from Unilever, the parent company of Ben & Jerry’s, over the ice-cream maker’s decision to stop selling its products in the West Bank and parts of Jerusalem, becoming the first state to take such action.
(JNS) Tufts University Police Department has launched an investigation after a student reported that the mezuzah affixed to his dorm room was stolen on Sept. 4.
(JTA) The latest politician to compare government vaccination efforts to Nazi Germany is Josh Mandel, a Jewish Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio.
(JNS) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is moving forward with a controversial class in the fall semester that is being taught by an anti-Israel professor despite concerns from Jewish and pro-Israel groups.
(JNS) The tombstone of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first Jewish woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, was unveiled days before the first anniversary of her death on Sept. 18.
(JNS) Representatives of multiple Jewish denominations in the United States expressed disapproval of a new law in Texas that makes it nearly impossible for a woman to receive an abortion in the state, especially after the sixth week of pregnancy.
(JTA) Meryl Jaffe says she’s like any Jewish parent keeping track of her kids on social media, except it can be terrifying.
(JTA) More than one hundred headstones were smashed at a Jewish cemetery in Argentina that had seen similar damage in 2009.
(JNS) The Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives (HJMA) and the National Library of Israel (NLI) announced the joint purchase of seven documents from the 19th and 20th centuries, related to Jewish life in what is now Hungary.
(JNS) The Slovakian government apologized on September 8th for World War II-era laws that stripped Jews of their rights.
(JNS) A Jewish man in Australia was struck by an attacker who also shouted “Heil Hitler” at him and his son as they walked to synagogue for a bar mitzvah celebration.
(JNS) Israeli Public Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev has warned that Arab crime families have “declared war” on the police by firing at the home of a senior officer.
(JNS) The sponsor of a bill that would have made Burlington, Vermont, the first city in America to divest from Israel is withdrawing his legislation, citing concerns that it would promote antisemitism.
(JNS) Bahrain’s Gulf Air announced via social media on September 9th that it will begin two weekly, direct flights to Tel Aviv starting on Sept. 30.
(JNS) The United Nations ambassadors of Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco on Monday the 13th marked one year since the signing of the Abraham Accords, at a ceremony in New York City.
(JNS) International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi met with the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami on the 12th to discuss issues related to the oversight of Iran’s nuclear program.
(JNS) The Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives (HJMA) and the National Library of Israel (NLI) announced the joint purchase of seven documents from the 19th and 20th centuries, related to Jewish life in what is now Hungary.
(JTA) The Taliban, the extremist Islamist movement once famously insular, is ready to build relations with the world — except for Israel.
(JNS) For years, the Israeli “Tavor” was marketed as the rifle of the future, and many of the Israel Defense Forces infantry fighters proudly carried it, enthusiastic about its convenience and futuristic look.
(JNS) The Knesset held a commemoration meeting on Sunday to mark eighty years since the Babi Yar massacre, the symbol of what is known as the “Holocaust of the Bullets,” and which began on the eve of Yom Kippur. In just two days, the Nazis murdered nearly all the Jews in Kiev: thirty-three t…
(JTA) A federal court sentenced an Ohio man to 20 years in prison for planning deadly attacks on a Toledo synagogue.
(JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in Sharm El-Sheikh on the 13th of September.
(JNS) IDF fighter jets struck several Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on the night of the 10th in response to a rocket fired from Gaza into Israeli territory, the Israeli army reported.
(JNS) A week into a national hunt for six Palestinian security prisoners who escaped from a jail in northern Israel, police captured two of the fugitives—Yaqoub Qadri and Mahmoud Ardah—in Nazareth on the night of September 10th. Hours later, two others—notorious terror commander Zakaria Zub…
(JNS) Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said during a state visit to Moscow on September 9th that the Jewish state reserves the right to act to stop Iran’s nuclear program.
(JNS) Israel’s Public Security Minister Omar Bar-Lev announced on the 9th the formation of a government inquiry commission to examine the failures that enabled the escape of six convicted Palestinian terrorists from Gilboa Prison.
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(JTA) With Jews around the world set celebrating the High Holiday season, the small Jewish communities in six Gulf states, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are planning to take part publicly in some of the traditional holiday rituals for the …
(My Jewish Learning) Each year, countless notes are stuffed into the cracks of the Western Wall, the last remaining wall of the Temple Mount, the elevated plaza in the Old City of Jerusalem on which the Temple stood. The site is the holiest in Judaism and a tradition emerged centuries ago of…
(JTA) Six months after his internet posts attacking Jews came to light, a U.S. Foreign Service officer remains employed by the State Department while at least seventy of his co-workers sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanding his dismissal.
(JNS) The latest FBI report on hate crimes shows that the number of incidents continues to rise year to year in the U.S., with seven thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine total hate crimes reported in 2020 as compared to seven thousand five hundred and seventeen in 2019.”
(JNS) A public library system in Philadelphia is promising to make operational changes after drawing criticism for what some community members are considering an effort to indoctrinate children and parents against Israel through books, videos and resource links that show a biased pro-Palesti…
(JTA) Following an international outcry, Amsterdam said its city-owned museum should return a Wassily Kandinsky painting that it had acquired from a Jewish family that was under duress during the Holocaust.
(JNS) The number of Jews worldwide stands at roughly fifteen point two million, according to statistics released by the Jewish Agency for Israel on the eve of the Jewish new year 5782.
(JNS) Syrian elite army forces and pro-Iranian militias escalated their offensive on the 31st of August against rebels in the southwest region of Syria bordering Israel and Jordan, according to residents, military and opposition sources.
(JNS) Israel approved a series of steps to relax restrictions on the Gaza Strip that were imposed since Hamas rocket attacks that numbered in the thousands and the resulting Israel Defense Forces’ “Operation Guardian of the Walls,” which took place between May 10 and May 21.
(JNS) Doctors at the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva have made Israeli medical history, successfully separating twins that had been conjoined at the head.
(JTA) Birthright Israel is resuming its trips after a month of cancellations over Israeli COVID-19 quarantine rules, the organization announced September 2nd.
(JNS) Israel opened a Chinese-operated shipping port in Haifa geared to increase competition and the country’s status as a trading nexus.
(JNS) The Israeli Cabinet on Wednesday approved a decision by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to allocate fifty-five million shekels (seventeen million USD) in grants for medical and health-system employees involved in treating COVID-19 patients.
(JNS) A wide-scale manhunt was underway in Israel on the morning of the 6th, after six Palestinians escaped from a high-security prison in the country’s north. The escapees were soon identified by authorities as members of terrorist groups.
(JTA) The Arava Desert in Israel’s south is “abuzz” with activity — and it is all thanks to one important six-legged critter: the humble honeybee.
(JTA) In a Rosh Hashanah call September second, with a thousand rabbis across the denominational spectrum, President Joe Biden rededicated his presidency to combating hate and extremism and called on the Senate to swiftly confirm his nominee for antisemitism monitor, Deborah Lipstadt.
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