Beirut - It's not easy being Jewish in Beirut where the synagogue is crumbling, the rabbis have left, the community is dwindling and where Jews are commonly branded "Israelis". The last vestiges of the Jewish community in Lebanon, the Magen Abraham synagogue in the Lebanese capital, reflects a community falling into oblivion. Built in 1920 in the area of Wadi Abu Jmil, formerly known as...

Rhodes, Greece - Dozens of families from around the world gathered Saturday on the Greek island of Rhodes to pay tribute to the man who in 1944 saved 40 Jews from being deported to Nazi concentration camps. Selahattin Ulkumen, Turkish consul general on the island in 1943, is remembered for his role in saving the Turkish Jews by persuading a German general to release them the day before they...

Kiryas Joel, NY - Some of the Hasidic women read the story about Sterna "Gitty" Grunwald soon after it came out in New York magazine. Others read it after hearing about it from friends. "Tremendous pain that this happened," said Eva Friedman. The five women, all of whom live in New York City, joined two local women from the "haredi," or ultra-orthodox Jewish community, to respond to what...

New York - Yonatan Stern, the "Sgan Mefaked Hakita" (deputy squad commander) of Kitat Konenut New York, insists his "paramilitary emergency armed response team" is no "group of vigilantes or a JDL [Jewish "The goal of the organization is to have a competent and professional group of armed volunteers ready to respond to a threat at a moment's notice in any area where Jews reside," explains the...

Manhattan, NY - NYPD detectives are investigating a chilling new terror threat - a series of cards from a "New York Jihad" that look like birthday-party invitations but warn of bombs in lower Manhattan this summer. The cards were mailed to the homes of seven city residents, including former Fox News television producer Kelley Vick and a person in the 26th Police Precinct, which covers West...

North Miami Beach, FL - A South Florida community is urging police to secure their neighborhood after another man was attacked near a jog path. On Wednesday evening Chaim Fischweicher was out in his jogging path when he was brutally assaulted. "I don't think for a minute that you, when I'm talking to the perpetrators and those like you, care about other people, otherwise you wouldn't do this,"...