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ADL Offers $50,000 Reward for Info on 1994 Ari Halberstam Antisemitic Murder Co-conspirators

ADL Offers $50,000 Reward for Info on 1994 Ari Halberstam Antisemitic Murder Co-conspirators

BROOKLYN (JNS) – The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) announced Monday that it is offering a $50,000 reward for tips that lead to the arrest and conviction… Read More ›

Chabad man stabbed in Crown Heights attack on Shabbat morning

Chabad man stabbed in Crown Heights attack on Shabbat morning

Authorities are currently investigating the incident as a possible hate crime, focusing on any potential biases that may have motivated the attackers. In a disturbing… Read More ›

Russia Labels Moscow’s Former Chief Rabbi a ‘Foreign Agent’

Russia Labels Moscow’s Former Chief Rabbi a ‘Foreign Agent’

MOSCOW (JTA) – Russia has labeled Pinchas Goldschmidt, the former chief rabbi of Moscow, a “foreign agent” a year after he left the country and… Read More ›

Netanyahu condemns antisemitic attacks in France riots

Netanyahu condemns antisemitic attacks in France riots

Rioters vandalized the Holocaust memorial site in Paris, known as The Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation, during the ongoing violent anti-police demonstrations. Israel… Read More ›

Comedian Roseanne Barr Wrongly Accused of Antisemitism After Comments Taken Out of Context

Comedian Roseanne Barr Wrongly Accused of Antisemitism After Comments Taken Out of Context

Comedian Roseanne Barr has been slammed for comments she made about Jews and the Holocaust during an appearance on a recent podcast. However her comments… Read More ›

Mossad helped crack Iran terror cell in Cyprus that planned attacks against Jews

Mossad helped crack Iran terror cell in Cyprus that planned attacks against Jews

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps planned the attack, which was stopped in cooperation between Cyprus and Western partners. The Mossad helped Cyprus crack an Iranian terror cell,… Read More ›

In new memoir, Anne Frank’s best friend tells incredible story of Holocaust survival

In new memoir, Anne Frank’s best friend tells incredible story of Holocaust survival

In ‘My Best Friend Anne Frank,’ the late Hannah Pick-Goslar talks about how she grew up with the future icon and their brief reunion at… Read More ›

Michigan Man Charged With Threatening Synagogue Massacre

Michigan Man Charged With Threatening Synagogue Massacre

DETROIT (AP) — A 19-year-old Michigan man has been charged with threatening a mass killing at a synagogue on the fifth anniversary of the massacre… Read More ›

The Adirei Torah Gathering and the Aveilus Heter:  An Analysis of the Controversy

The Adirei Torah Gathering and the Aveilus Heter:  An Analysis of the Controversy

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com The subject under discussion is a very sensitive one, with extremely strong feelings in both directions.   It must also… Read More ›

Judicial reform opponents should not air our dirty laundry overseas

Judicial reform opponents should not air our dirty laundry overseas

Opinion: Chasing Israeli officials aborad with signs in English while calling Israel a fascist regime is a stain no amount of bleach will help remove… Read More ›

From ultra-Orthodox outcast to TikTok sensation: Riki Rotter’s path to freedom

From ultra-Orthodox outcast to TikTok sensation: Riki Rotter’s path to freedom

The rebellious girl ran away from home to escape the constraints of her religious life, and today claims she ‘fucking loves my life,’ which she… Read More ›

At Pittsburgh gunman’s trial, Jewish rituals feature as prominently as deadly carnage

At Pittsburgh gunman’s trial, Jewish rituals feature as prominently as deadly carnage

Descriptions of items, practices in synagogue proving crucial for prosecution in trial of shooter, who killed 11 Jews praying at three congregations on Shabbat in… Read More ›

READ: CUNY Releases Statement Condemning Hate Speech…3 Weeks After Vicious Antisemitic Speech

READ: CUNY Releases Statement Condemning Hate Speech…3 Weeks After Vicious Antisemitic Speech

Statement from the Board of Trustees and Chancellor of the City University of New York “Free speech is precious, but often messy, and is vital… Read More ›

In the eyes of young Jews, American Jewry is a ‘white and privileged group’

In the eyes of young Jews, American Jewry is a ‘white and privileged group’

Why are young Jews in the U.S. distancing themselves from Israel and Judaism, and is there hope for a change? Dr. Ilana Horwitz believes this… Read More ›

CNN’s Amanpour publicly apologizes for saying Dee family was killed in a ‘shootout’

CNN’s Amanpour publicly apologizes for saying Dee family was killed in a ‘shootout’

Pro-Israel news outlet HonestReporting publicized Amanpour’s initial comment on May 11, after it had gone under the radar for a month already. Following more than… Read More ›

‘Long live Israel!’: Cohen makes historic visit to Sweden as countries turn over new leaf

‘Long live Israel!’: Cohen makes historic visit to Sweden as countries turn over new leaf

In first in 22 years, Israeli FM visits Sweden and meets with Swedish counterpart Billström, whose wife volunteered on a kibbutz in the 90s, and… Read More ›

Newly revealed archive documents show Hitler’s final days

Newly revealed archive documents show Hitler’s final days

Rusian FSB published accounts by the Nazi leader’s close aid when he was imprisoned in Moscow, describing the mood in the Berlin bunker as Allied… Read More ›

Cabinet Advances Project For ‘Kosher’ Electricity On Shabbat

Cabinet Advances Project For ‘Kosher’ Electricity On Shabbat

JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israel’s Cabinet on Sunday approved government support for a pilot program to build “kosher” electricity storage sites meant to be drawn on… Read More ›

Ex-Israeli PM Barak met with Jeffrey Epstein dozens of times after child abuse convictions

Ex-Israeli PM Barak met with Jeffrey Epstein dozens of times after child abuse convictions

According to new documents revealed by WSJ, disgraced financier planned at least three dozen meetings with Barak between 2013 and 2017 and they had appointments… Read More ›

Israel’s Government To Ask High Court For Conscription Law Extension

Israel’s Government To Ask High Court For Conscription Law Extension

JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israel’s government is expected to ask the High Court of Justice for a five-month extension of the court-mandated deadline for passing a… Read More ›