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Polish, Israeli govts condemn antisemitic display in Poland

Polish, Israeli govts condemn antisemitic display in Poland

Lapid welcomed ‘unequivocal condemnation, of event by Polish officials, says he expect government to act uncompromisingly against those taking part in ‘shocking display of hate’… Read More ›

Eran Kolirin thought ‘Let It Be Morning’ was ‘career suicide.’ He was dead wrong

Eran Kolirin thought ‘Let It Be Morning’ was ‘career suicide.’ He was dead wrong

Recently shown at NYC’s Other Israel festival, the Israeli director’s latest film features an all-Arab cast, won an Ophir Award, and will represent the Jewish… Read More ›

The Jewish story behind the Will Ferrell-Paul Rudd series ‘The Shrink Next Door’

The Jewish story behind the Will Ferrell-Paul Rudd series ‘The Shrink Next Door’

New Apple TV+ show is based on a true, and incredible, tale that unfolds within New York’s unknowing Jewish community, as a psychiatrist takes over… Read More ›

Schultz Under Fire For Comparing Starbucks To Holocaust Prisoners

Schultz Under Fire For Comparing Starbucks To Holocaust Prisoners

  NEW YORK — Starbucks is known as a company that cares about its employees. Yet in a recent effort to convey that message, Howard… Read More ›

Israel approves COVID shots for kids; experts predict uphill acceptance struggle

Israel approves COVID shots for kids; experts predict uphill acceptance struggle

Campaign to inoculate children aged 5-11 will be ‘very challenging,’ assesses health researcher; epidemiologist warns of take-up gaps between rich and poor   Israel on… Read More ›

Feds: 2 Members Of Lev Tahor Sect Convicted

Feds: 2 Members Of Lev Tahor Sect Convicted

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Two leaders of an extremist Jewish sect were convicted Wednesday of kidnapping and child sexual exploitation crimes, prosecutors said. In… Read More ›

President Herzog, the future of the Western Wall is in your hands

President Herzog, the future of the Western Wall is in your hands

Opinion: Herzog knows better than anyone just how important freedom of prayer is and his decision to ask MKs not to attend progressive services undermines… Read More ›

Texas Chabad Rabbi Releases Statement On Lebanese Man Who Faked Identity To Marry Jewish Girl

Texas Chabad Rabbi Releases Statement On Lebanese Man Who Faked Identity To Marry Jewish Girl

TEXAS (VINnews) — As previously reported by VINnews, a Lebanese man deceived a Jewish girl from Brooklyn and married her, after spending time with the Chabad… Read More ›

Analysis: In Las Vegas, Jewish Republican confab weighs one more roll of the dice on Trump

Analysis: In Las Vegas, Jewish Republican confab weighs one more roll of the dice on Trump

Speakers point to victorious Virginia race where GOP candidate kept ex-president at arm’s length, but also note support for Trump’s Israel policies make him difficult… Read More ›

A Mother’s Prayer From the Chazon Ish

A Mother’s Prayer From the Chazon Ish

The Chazon Ish, Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz zt”l (1878 – 1953) was not just one of the Gedolei HaDor and the leading recognized Posaik HaDor… Read More ›

Interfaith leaders urge UN’s COP26 to adopt the Plant Based Treaty

Interfaith leaders urge UN’s COP26 to adopt the Plant Based Treaty

Over 100 interfaith leaders – including former Chief Rabbi of Ireland Rabbi David Rosen and Revered Shad Groverland of the global organization “Unity Worldwide Ministries.”… Read More ›

VIDEO: Outrage As Soccer Fans Sing Anti-Semitic Song To Jewish Man On Flight To Belgium

VIDEO: Outrage As Soccer Fans Sing Anti-Semitic Song To Jewish Man On Flight To Belgium

  BELGIUM (VINnews) — Many are expressing outrage after footage emerged of a plane full of European soccer fans singing a vile anti-semitic chant on… Read More ›

Rabbi Schneur Zalman Blumenfeld, 58, Chief Chabad Emissary in Peru Dies at 58

Rabbi Schneur Zalman Blumenfeld, 58, Chief Chabad Emissary in Peru Dies at 58

  LIMA (Chabad.org) – Rabbi Schneur Zalman Blumenfeld, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Peru, who served Jewish residents and visitors to Lima for more than three decades… Read More ›

Remains of IDF’s first fallen paratrooper brought to Israel

Remains of IDF’s first fallen paratrooper brought to Israel

Private Martin Davidowicz was a Holocaust survivor who was killed during the IDF’s first Paratroopers training course.   The remains of the first IDF’s first… Read More ›

Tree of Life rabbi: ‘We can’t let evil win, and it won’t go away on its own’

Tree of Life rabbi: ‘We can’t let evil win, and it won’t go away on its own’

3 years after the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh that claimed 11 lives, Rabbi Jeffrey Myers speaks about grieving, life after the tragedy and serving as… Read More ›

The Predator and the Frum Child Protection Lawyer: a Halachic Analysis

The Predator and the Frum Child Protection Lawyer: a Halachic Analysis

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com I had heard this woman’s story earlier today – before my flight back to New York from Ben Gurion… Read More ›

A third of US Jews changed behavior due to antisemitism -AJC

A third of US Jews changed behavior due to antisemitism -AJC

The report surveyed both American Jews and the general American public who are at minimum 18 years old, who were asked about their perceptions and… Read More ›

US concerned about Israeli plans for 3,000 settler homes

US concerned about Israeli plans for 3,000 settler homes

The announcement about settler housing plans comes amid media reports that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is under extra US pressure to freeze such plans.  … Read More ›

Renowned microbiologist and WWII hero dies at 100

Renowned microbiologist and WWII hero dies at 100

Prof. David Sompolinsky left hiding in Denmark during WWII to save other Jews.   Renowned biologist and Holocaust hero Prof. David Sompolinsky passed away last… Read More ›

Google Maps Removes ‘Apartheid Wall’ Label From Security Barrier Near Jerusalem

Google Maps Removes ‘Apartheid Wall’ Label From Security Barrier Near Jerusalem

NEW YORK (JNS) – Google has announced that it has removed the label “Apartheid Wall” from a road adjacent to the security barrier on the… Read More ›