Diplomacy Marches On Its Stomach: One Rabbi Helps Cook Up Kosher Fare For UAE Delegation
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (JNS) – Top Israeli and American officials arrived in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, on Monday departing… Read More ›
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COVID-19 has been buffeting American Jewry for months. What lies ahead?
Pandemic sees hundreds of synagogues shuttered, Jewish organizations slashing budgets and staff, community centers emptied, day schools online and summer camps cancelled JTA —… Read More ›
Dozens of Haredi Jews stuck on a plane in Kiev
The passengers, who came on two different flights from London and Paris to Kiev, were barred from entering the country. Dozens of Haredi Jews… Read More ›
Uman fiasco highlights ultra-Orthodox MKs’ political opportunism
Opinion: The pilgrimage is just another parable for Haredi political art of taking a questionable narrative and turning it into their raison d’etre in such… Read More ›
20,000 at anti-Netanyahu demo, including 200 hasidim; events in 17 world cities
Jerusalem protest ends largely peacefully; group from Bratslav sect, angry over Uman pilgrimage, join in; man in passing car said to brandish pistol at Herzliya… Read More ›
Stabbing victim Rabbi Shai Ohayon laid to rest: ‘He was humble, kind and quiet’
Father of 4, killed in apparent terror attack, buried in Petah Tikva at funeral kept small by coronavirus restrictions; IDF troops raid suspected killer’s West… Read More ›
Israel needs an honest conversation with its superspreaders
Opinion: The precarious pandemic situation stems from the government’s lack of communication with the Arab and ultra-Orthodox sectors, which constitute the most infections and as… Read More ›
Pompeo to defy own order to deliver RNC speech from Jerusalem
Secretary of State sent cable to all US missions last month warning American diplomats that under federal law they should not take overt sides in… Read More ›
Elul and Embarrassing a Child
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com It is now the month of Elul – the time when we ask mechila for what we may have… Read More ›
After Facing Threats, Kentucky Rabbi Set To Offer Educational Courses On Anti-semitism
LEXINGTON, KY (JNS) – After denouncing racist, anti-Semitic fliers left around his community earlier this month and then being threatened by a neo-Nazi leader,… Read More ›
5 Jewish things to know about US vice president candidate Kamala Harris
Democratic senator from California has a Jewish husband, carried a JNF blue tin as a child, is a fan of Israel’s Supreme Court building … Read More ›
Shortened Census Period Means Brooklyn’s Orthodox Communities Will Likely Be Undercounted
NEW YORK (JTA) – Before the coronavirus pandemic hit New York City, Rabbi Avi Greenstein knew he needed to make a big push to… Read More ›
Atoning for anti-Semitic remarks, Cannon says he’s okay being ‘sacrificial lamb’
In online conversation with Jewish group, entertainer says apology has been just one part of process in making amends; reveals his great-grandfather was a sephardic… Read More ›
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz: A Life
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com He was said to be a descendant of one of the leading Chassidic Rabbis of the 19th century, Rav Avrohom… Read More ›
Polish-language Newspaper In Toronto Blames Jews For The Pandemic
TORONTO (JTA) – A Polish-language newspaper in Toronto has published an article blaming Jews for the coronavirus pandemic. B’nai Brith Canada, an organization that fights… Read More ›
Why religious Zionists refuse to join anti-Netanyahu protests
Opinion: The religious Zionists learned very well during the 2005 disengagement from Gaza that protests don’t lead anywhere because they don’t represent the majority, and… Read More ›
Two Eruv Committees in Monsey Pursue Shalom!
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com And it happened before Tisha B’Av! As many residents of Monsey, New York are aware, there are two Eruv… Read More ›
After Twitter ban, Wiley only sorry for ‘generalizing’ during anti-Semitic rant
In interview, rapper stands by posts that got him booted from social media, continues to rail against ‘Jewish lawyers,’ blaming them for ‘systematic racism’ in… Read More ›
No, Mr. Rogen, Israel Does Make Sense
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman Recently, JTA published the contents of a podcast in which Seth Rogen, an up and coming actor, essentially trashes his… Read More ›
How Did Europe’s Jews Cope With A 17th-century Plague? This 350-year-old Memoir Offers A Glimpse.
BOSTON (JTA) – More than 350 years ago, a plague took a deadly toll on Hamburg, Germany. As the High Holidays approached, fear and… Read More ›
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