First kosher bar in former Soviet Union serves up cocktails and Torah lessons
Israeli Entrepreneur David Roitman says he opened Kosher Bar as personal duty to help rebuild the historic Jewish community of Odessa in Ukraine, which he… Read More ›
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How Asarah B’Taives May Be Different than Other Fasts
Rav Yoseph Karo (Bais Yoseph 550) cites the view of the Avudraham that the fast of Asara b’Taives is different than all of the other… Read More ›
Siyum Hashas ‘Waldo’ is Latest Victim of Anti-Semitic Verbal Assault on the Subway
NEW YORK (VINnews) — At the Siyum Hashas, Yonatan Gray stood out like a striped thumb. As he entered the Subway, he also stood… Read More ›
Israel should stand up for Jews wherever they are
Opinion: People’s homes, communities and lives make up their identities no less than the fact that they are Jewish From Monsey to London, from Paris… Read More ›
Belgian Orthodox Jewish Lawmaker Takes Heat For Lighting Menorah Near Parliament Nativity Scene
LONDON (JTA) – A video by the only Orthodox Jewish lawmaker in the Belgium Federal Parliament lighting candles there on Hanukkah near a nativity… Read More ›
Bret Stephens Under Fire For NY Times Column On Jewish Intelligence
NEW YORK (JTA) — New York Times columnist Bret Stephens came under fire on social media for an op ed in which he wrote… Read More ›
Members of Congress, Senators condemn Monsey attack
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are united in issuing statements condemning the hateful attack on Jews celebrating Hanukkah. The House of Representatives… Read More ›
‘I threw a coffee table’: Witness describes fighting machete-wielding assailant
‘He started hitting people right and left,’ says Joseph Gluck, detailing how he tried to stop attacker who injured five in Monsey rabbi’s home at… Read More ›
Those Holiday Season Gifts: Psak From Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com It is a not uncommon experience for people that have family members in the hospital. Nice well-meaning people give… Read More ›
The machete attack at a Rabbi’s home is part of an ‘epidemic’ of anti-Semitic incidents
Five people were stabbed in a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York during a December 28 Hanukkah celebration. The attack was just the latest in… Read More ›
At least three people said stabbed in attack at Monsey Hannukkah lighting
Man with machete reportedly stormed house of rabbi next to synagogue in New York suburb Several people have been injured in a stabbing next… Read More ›
In France, murder of Jews kept from public
Opinion: Although the French say they care about the Jewish community, the recent verdict, claiming a Muslim immigrant who threw his elderly Jewish neighbor out… Read More ›
Colombia’s Day of the Little Candles looks an awful lot like Hanukkah
Dia de las Velitas dates back to 1854, when Pope Pius set the immaculate conception as Catholic dogma, but some scholars attribute aspects of the… Read More ›
Columbia University Accused Of Anti-semitic Discrimination In First Case Since Trump Executive Order
NEW YORK (JTA) – A federal complaint has been filed against Columbia University accusing the school of anti-Semitic discrimination. It is the first case… Read More ›
Were the original Hanukkah latkes really ricotta pancakes from Italy?
Brought to Rome by Sephardic Jews from southern Italy, the lesser-known cassola, which predate the now-ubiquitous potato latke, are enjoying a resurgence This Hanukkah,… Read More ›
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Makes Controversial Remarks About Israel During Radio Interview
WASHINGTON — Recently, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez was interviewed on a radio program, during which she made remarks perceived by some to be incendiary… Read More ›
Haredi politicians’ Netanyahu conundrum
Opinion: The heads of the ultra-Orthodox parties recognize that their base feels a kinship with the prime minister’s self-promoted image of victim persecuted by the… Read More ›
Netanyahu said to praise Jewish Home merger with extremist party
Prime Minister’s Office denies report; Likud leader has taken an active role in pushing for Kahanists to be brought into fold in last two elections,… Read More ›
World leaders must be smarter about combating anti-Semitism
Opinion: Attack on Israeli students in America and vandalism of Jewish graveyards in Europe are only some of most recent anti-Semitic incident in the Diaspora;… Read More ›
Sanders: Netanyahu is ‘racist,’ US must also be pro-Palestinian
Speaking at fifth Democratic debate in LA, the Vermont senator and presidential hopeful says Washington should ‘level the paying field’ in Mideast Senator Bernie… Read More ›
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