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Father of Lone Soldier Killed in Jerusalem Stabbing Attack Running for Georgia State Senate
ATLANTA (JNS) - The Atlanta-area father of an Israeli soldier who was killed in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem in November is running for Georgia state senate after the Democratic incumbent in his dis...
Harvard pro-Palestinian Faculty Group Apologizes for Antisemitic Cartoon
(JTA) – A group of pro-Palestinian faculty and staff at Harvard University apologized Monday for posting an image that school administrators and Jewish leaders called antisemitic, in the latest row ov...
University Chaplain and Family in Hiding After Death Threats Over Stint in IDF
LONDON (JTA) - A rabbi at several British universities who drew hundreds of death threats after flying to Israel to serve as a reserve soldier after Oct. 7 is now in hiding with his wife and two child...
2 Matisyahu Concerts in the Southwest Are Canceled After Pro-palestinian Activists Protest
(JTA/BY PHILISSA CRAMER ) - Two concerts by Matisyahu, the American Jewish singer famous for his peace anthem “One Day,” have been canceled after pro-Palestinian protesters targeted venues where ...
Republican Opposition to Israel Aid Is the Latest Headache for the Pro-israel Community
WASHINGTON (JTA/BY RON KAMPEAS ) — Since Oct. 7, a growing number of Democrats have called for a ceasefire in Gaza, harshly criticized Israel or refused to send it more money.
But increasingly over...
A Polish ‘Countess’ Saved Thousands Of Concentration Camp Prisoners From Death. No One Knew She Was A Jew.
NEW YORK (JTA) — In December 1941, a petite, elegant woman left her home in Eastern Galicia, where she was known as the Jewish mathematician Janina Spinner Mehlberg.
Three days later, she arrived i...
In the Wake of Anti-israel Vandalism, Hundreds of Jewish New Yorkers Turn Out to Support a Druze Restaurant on the Upper West Side
(New York Jewish Week) — When Gazala Halabi arrived at her restaurant, Gazalas’s, last Sunday morning, she wasn’t prepared for what would happen later in the day: Hundreds of Jewish and Israeli New Yo...
Robert Kraft’s Super Bowl Ad About Antisemitism to Feature Mlk Speechwriter Clarence Jones
(JTA) — An icon of Black history takes center stage in an ad placed by the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism on Sunday night’s Super Bowl LVIII, expected to be viewed by 100 million people.
Robert ...
NJ Man Faces Life in Prison After Pleading Guilty to 2022 Spree of Violent Antisemitic Attacks
LAKEWOOD (JTA) - A man has pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes for a spree of violent attacks against Jews in a heavily Orthodox area of New Jersey.
In April 2022, Dion Marsh perpetrated a series...
A Tiny Orthodox Synagogue, a Relic of the Old Jewish Lower East Side, Struggles to Survive
MANHATTAN (JTA) - One of the few surviving congregations on a block of the Lower East Side once known as “Shtiebel Row” is in danger of losing its minyan, the quorum of 10 men above bar mitzvah age ne...
Tiktok’s Pro-israel Investors Face Conundrum as Platform Is Blamed for Fueling Antisemitism
NEW YORK (JTA) - Last year, as fighting swirled over the Israeli government’s efforts to reshape the country’s judiciary, Israeli and American critics turned their attention to Arthur Dantchik, a Jewi...
The Lublin Yeshiva Library Was Thought to Be Destroyed by the Nazis. Then Its Books Started Turning Up
NEW YORK (JTA) - For decades after World War II, a famed Jewish house of study in Poland was consigned to oblivion.
The Nazis set fire to thousands of books stored at the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva in...
A 19th-Century Painting of the Western Wall Could Fetch $3M at Sotheby’s
NEW YORK (JTA) - A hyper-realistic 19th-century painting of worshippers at the Western Wall that spent many forgotten years in a synagogue’s storage room is headed to auction at Sotheby’s New York on ...
GOOD RIDDANCE: Lyft Fires Driver who Allegedly Assaulted a DC Chabad Rabbi
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Lyft has let go of a driver who allegedly assaulted the scion of a prominent Chabad rabbinical family who had used the rideshare app.
“Lyft unequivocally condemns this behavior,”...
More Than 1,300 Attend a Free Shabbat Dinner at Ayat, a Palestinian Restaurant in Brooklyn
BROOKLYN (JTA) - More than 1,300 people made their way to Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, last Friday night to take part in a free Shabbat dinner at Ayat, a local Palestinian restaurant owned by restaurateur A...
The Five Towns Far Rockaway Community Mourns an Extraordinary Torah Scholar
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Last week, the Five Towns/Far Rockaway community lost a unique and extraordinary individual, Rabbi Dr. David Kadosh a”h. Rabbi Kadosh was a brilliant Talmid Chochom who studie...
Why Images of Holocaust Survivors Were Projected Onto NYC Landmarks on Saturday Night
NEW YORK (JTA) - Larger-than-life images of Holocaust survivors and their stories were projected on nearly two dozen New York City landmarks on Saturday night in honor of International Holocaust Remem...
UN Chief Not Invited to Park East Synagogue Holocaust Event for First Time in 10 Years
NEW YORK (JTA) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was not invited to a prominent New York City synagogue’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day event this year, a sign of frayed ti...
Robert Kraft’s Foundation to Combat Antisemitism to run 30-second Super Bowl ad
(JTA) — As reports of antisemitism have surged since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, Jewish groups have sought to spotlight the issue through rallies, news coverage, billboards and social media ...
Could Social Media Really Have Stopped the Holocaust? Scholars Say Elon Musk’s ‘Fantasy Scenario’ Is Far-Fetched.
KRAKOW, Poland (JTA) — Gavriel Rosenfeld, president of the Center for Jewish History in New York City, specializes in Nazi Germany and counterfactual history — or the study of what might have happened...