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Success of UK’s bestselling Jewish authors can’t mask huge decline in new titles

Success of UK’s bestselling Jewish authors can’t mask huge decline in new titles

Even as demand for literature is on the rise, online bookstores make it nearly impossible to sustain a fixed literary space for secular ‘Jewish’ works… Read More ›

Israel’s left wing must have the courage to tackle the big issue

Israel’s left wing must have the courage to tackle the big issue

Opinion: The left must clearly state, without obfuscating in the name of political correctness, what it believes is the long-hungered solution for good relations between… Read More ›

Tel Aviv – Man Permitted To Marry Second Wife After First Wife Absconds With Child

Tel Aviv – Man Permitted To Marry Second Wife After First Wife Absconds With Child

  Tel Aviv – The Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court gave permission to a man to marry a second wife after his first wife absconded with… Read More ›

Meet the 27-year-old female rabbi leading a NY Jewish federation

Meet the 27-year-old female rabbi leading a NY Jewish federation

In an age when Millennials cherry-pick their charitable causes online, Rachel Rubenstein says donating to a local federation is counter-cultural — and constituents are responding… Read More ›

The Holocaust survivor who dresses up like Hitler

The Holocaust survivor who dresses up like Hitler

Artist Dov Or-Ner is an unusual figure in the Israeli art scene; after years of living with the fuhrer’s menacing voice in his head, he… Read More ›

Polish Jewish children’s rights pioneer honored 70 years after his murder

Polish Jewish children’s rights pioneer honored 70 years after his murder

Author, pediatrician and activist Janusz Korczak accompanied 190 orphans to Treblinka rather than escape with his life; now his work is being immortalized for sold-out… Read More ›

How Hitler’s ‘fake news’ assault on America came perilously close to succeeding

How Hitler’s ‘fake news’ assault on America came perilously close to succeeding

In ‘Hitler’s American Friends,’ historian Bradley W. Hart reveals the extent to which US citizens aided, abetted, and otherwise supported Nazi Germany   Not only… Read More ›

Court Nixes Jewish Teen’s Confession in Arson of Dormition Abbey

Court Nixes Jewish Teen’s Confession in Arson of Dormition Abbey

The Lod District Court nixed the confession earlier Tuesday of the Jewish minor accused of involvement in the arson the Dormition Abbey in February 2016.… Read More ›

69 years after joining, Israel formally leaves UNESCO

69 years after joining, Israel formally leaves UNESCO

UN cultural agency’s efforts to convince Washington and Jerusalem fail; ‘we aren’t going to be a member of an organization that deliberately acts against us,’… Read More ›

Israel’s underground world of conversion therapy

Israel’s underground world of conversion therapy

While the vast majority of professionals warn such threatment for young members of the LGBT community is dangerous, many religious therapists offer such services, ‘with… Read More ›

Head of firm that insured Auschwitz workshops stripped of posthumous honor

Head of firm that insured Auschwitz workshops stripped of posthumous honor

After discovery that Victoria Insurance foreclosed on Jewish homes and covered slave labor factories, German university rededicates institute and prize named after Kurt Hamann  … Read More ›

Erdogan: ‘Jews in Israel beat Palestinian women and children’

Erdogan: ‘Jews in Israel beat Palestinian women and children’

The Turkish president, who has long been a harsh critic of Israel, threatens to teach the ‘Jews in Israel’ a lesson; PM Netanyahu: ‘Erdogan, whose… Read More ›

Los Angeles – Kindertransport Survivor Sees German Payments As History Acknowledged

Los Angeles – Kindertransport Survivor Sees German Payments As History Acknowledged

  Los Angeles – For 93-year-old Paul Kester, the sum of $2,800 offered him by the German government for his childhood ordeal during the Nazi… Read More ›

In London’s Jewish hub, Brexit jitters are causing a housing slump

In London’s Jewish hub, Brexit jitters are causing a housing slump

Real estate agent Murrey Lee says he has reservations about supporting breakaway from EU in 2016; homeowners concerned, also by possibility of Corbyn soon leading… Read More ›

‘Our enemies may kill our children, but they won’t break us’

‘Our enemies may kill our children, but they won’t break us’

Speaking at a press conference, Shira and Amichai Ish-Ran, parents of premature-born infant, who succumbed to his wounds on Wednesday, say their son succeeded in… Read More ›

The Jewish backstory of the radical gang from Chicago’s Women’s Liberation Union

The Jewish backstory of the radical gang from Chicago’s Women’s Liberation Union

Four feminist icons — Heather Booth, Amy Kesselman, Vivian Rothstein and Naomi Weisstein — are about to get fresh groupies with the publication of Joyce… Read More ›

Portland, OR – Holocaust Survivor Killed By Car While Crossing Street

Portland, OR – Holocaust Survivor Killed By Car While Crossing Street

  Portland, OR –  A 92-year-old man who survived Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust was struck and killed by a car while crossing a… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Rabbi Ovadia Yosef First Halachic Authority Translated To Amharic

Jerusalem – Rabbi Ovadia Yosef First Halachic Authority Translated To Amharic

  Jerusalem – Yalkut Yosef, the halachic work based on the rulings of former Sephardic Chief Rabbi and spiritual leader of the Shas political movement… Read More ›

NY Jewish councilwoman receives hate letter mentioning Pittsburgh shooting

NY Jewish councilwoman receives hate letter mentioning Pittsburgh shooting

Despite feeling targeted, Karen Koslowitz says NYPD told her letter with anti-Semitic slurs is not a hate crime   A Jewish councilwoman from New York… Read More ›

One year on, Trump cheered for embassy move at White House Hanukkah party

One year on, Trump cheered for embassy move at White House Hanukkah party

Andrew Pollack, father of Parkland shooting victim Meadow Pollack, calls US president ‘greatest friend Jewish people have ever had’ as candle lit in daughter’s memory… Read More ›