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Brooklyn, NY – The End Of An Era: Skulener Rebbe, Rabbi Yisroel Avraham Portugal Passes Away

Brooklyn, NY – The End Of An Era: Skulener Rebbe, Rabbi Yisroel Avraham Portugal Passes Away

Brooklyn, NY – The Skulener Rebbe, Rabbi Yisroel Avraham Portugal, passed away this evening after having been gravely ill for the past several months.  He… Read More ›

Staten Island, NY – Orthodox Man Pulls Verrazzano Bridge Jumper To Safety

Staten Island, NY – Orthodox Man Pulls Verrazzano Bridge Jumper To Safety

Staten Island, NY – An Orthodox Jewish man is being hailed as a hero today after preventing a man from taking a fatal leap off… Read More ›

New York – Why Orthodox Communities Are At The Center Of A Measles Outbreak

New York – Why Orthodox Communities Are At The Center Of A Measles Outbreak

  New York- Rabbi Mordechai Shain isn’t sure about vaccines. Almost all of the 400 kids in the school he runs, from 3 months old… Read More ›

Rockland County, NY – Kids Get Measles Vaccine After County Declares Emergency

Rockland County, NY – Kids Get Measles Vaccine After County Declares Emergency

  Rockland County, NY – Some parents who had resisted having their children vaccinated reluctantly brought them in for a measles shot Wednesday as a… Read More ›

Chuck Schumer at AIPAC: A Jew Who Lobbies for Israel Is No Less American

Chuck Schumer at AIPAC: A Jew Who Lobbies for Israel Is No Less American

“You can be, all at once, completely Jewish, completely pro-Israel and completely American,” he said.   “You can be a Jew and care about Israel… Read More ›

IDF forces kill 2 Palestinians in clashes near Joseph’s Tomb

IDF forces kill 2 Palestinians in clashes near Joseph’s Tomb

Israeli troops, securing Jewish worshippers at biblical tomb in the West Bank, say the two suspects began hurling explosives at soldiers, prompting the security forces… Read More ›

Muslim, Jewish Democrats Hold Meetings, Rashida Tlaib Cries at One

Muslim, Jewish Democrats Hold Meetings, Rashida Tlaib Cries at One

The second of three meetings on minorities and discrimination, held March 5, specifically addressed antisemitism.   WASHINGTON — Jewish and Muslim members of the House… Read More ›

Record number of anti-Semitic incidents recorded in Netherlands

Record number of anti-Semitic incidents recorded in Netherlands

Watchdog records 230 cases of anti-Jewish prejudice in 2018, 19% more than previous year; just 1 incident involved physical violence   JTA — The Netherlands… Read More ›

Brussels Jewish museum killer sentenced to life in prison

Brussels Jewish museum killer sentenced to life in prison

Prosecutors call jihadist Mehdi Nemmouche a ‘coward’ and a ‘psychopath’; Nacer Bendrer, who supplied murderer with weapons, jailed for 15 years   BRUSSELS, Belgium — The… Read More ›

Opening the Vatican archives won’t absolve the Church

Opening the Vatican archives won’t absolve the Church

Opinion: The Vatican’s silence in the face of Nazi genocide is a proven fact; there were many local initiatives to rescue Jews that were blessed… Read More ›

Trump said to tell GOP donors: ‘Democrats hate Jewish people’

Trump said to tell GOP donors: ‘Democrats hate Jewish people’

Boasting of his own popularity in Israel, US president reportedly says if he could run for prime minister he would be polling at 98 percent… Read More ›

Bitola, Macedonia – 2 Last Remaining Jews Of Bitola, Macedonia Attend Holocaust Commemoration

Bitola, Macedonia – 2 Last Remaining Jews Of Bitola, Macedonia Attend Holocaust Commemoration

  Bitola, Macedonia – About 200 people gathered in this Balkan nation’s second city for a Holocaust commemoration that became one of its largest Jewish… Read More ›

US Jews divided by House resolution condemning anti-Semitism, bigotry

US Jews divided by House resolution condemning anti-Semitism, bigotry

While some Jewish groups and leaders applaud the measure, others lambaste it for not mentioning Ilhan Omar by name or being watered down by inclusion… Read More ›

Mazel tov! Ahead of International Women’s Day, Marvel cinema births a (s)hero

Mazel tov! Ahead of International Women’s Day, Marvel cinema births a (s)hero

With an insider’s peek at the feminist film, our movie maven thinks up an elaborate ‘Captain Marvel’ back story in which the plot is a… Read More ›

Friedman: Why Can’t Antisemitism Be Rejected in Halls of Congress?

Friedman: Why Can’t Antisemitism Be Rejected in Halls of Congress?

In a tweet on Wednesday, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said, “when bigotry of any kind rears its ugly head, it must be and… Read More ›

Sweden teaching the Holocaust to young refugees

Sweden teaching the Holocaust to young refugees

Swedish educators talk about what they are doing to fight anti-Semitism within Sweden’s Muslim immigrant population, although police report no significant increase in anti-Semitic crimes;… Read More ›

Israel ranked 8th most powerful country in the world

Israel ranked 8th most powerful country in the world

Jewish state moves up to 29th on the best countries list, up one place from last year, but scores woefully low when rated as a… Read More ›

Dallas, TX – Art Collected By Jewish Lawyer Before WWII Goes To Auction

Dallas, TX – Art Collected By Jewish Lawyer Before WWII Goes To Auction

  Dallas, TX – About 200 works of art from a Jewish lawyer’s collection that were spirited out of Nazi Germany to the U.S. are… Read More ›

A relationship in need of Reform

A relationship in need of Reform

Slowly but surely, Israel’s relationship with liberal American Jewry is deteriorating; now, the Foreign Ministry has accused the Reform Movement of neglecting Israel at an… Read More ›

Ilhan Omar Says She is Accused of Antisemitism Because She’s Muslim

Ilhan Omar Says She is Accused of Antisemitism Because She’s Muslim

“A lot of our Jewish colleagues, our constituents and allies go to thinking that everything we say about Israel is antisemitic.”   Congresswoman Ihan Omar… Read More ›