World Jewish News

New York – Can Cyber Technology Solve The Anne Frank And Raoul Wallenberg Mysteries?

New York – Can Cyber Technology Solve The Anne Frank And Raoul Wallenberg Mysteries?

  New York – After 70 years of studying the Holocaust, historians still don’t know the exact circumstances of the tragic fate that befell two… Read More ›

‘Who is a Jew?’ Can Now be Answered by Genetic Testing

‘Who is a Jew?’ Can Now be Answered by Genetic Testing

The mass immigration of Jews from the FSU to Israel was seen as a welcome blessing, but many have experienced difficulties proving their Jewish identity.… Read More ›

Government Anxious to Rush Through Haredi Military Service Exemption Law

Government Anxious to Rush Through Haredi Military Service Exemption Law

The High Court struck down Israel’s policy on haredi recruitment, deeming it to be discriminatory.   The cabinet appointed Tourism Minister Yariv Levin Sunday to… Read More ›

Sukkot services to go on in Barcelona, despite violence over independence vote

Sukkot services to go on in Barcelona, despite violence over independence vote

As hundreds injured in Catalonian riots over referendum, city’s 15,000 Jews will celebrate festival as usual, community leader says   JTA — Violence between police… Read More ›

US Jewish Groups to Join March for Racial Injustice

US Jewish Groups to Join March for Racial Injustice

Jews to march on 2nd day despite initial upset over Yom Kippur scheduling.   American Jewish students and groups were set to join the March… Read More ›

Israel must not let Arab states hijack UNESCO

Israel must not let Arab states hijack UNESCO

Op-ed: Instead of fighting specific resolutions adopted by the UN organization, we must wake up and try to change its agenda by promoting the election… Read More ›

Puerto Rico’s Jews turn to helping neighbors ravaged by Hurricane Maria

Puerto Rico’s Jews turn to helping neighbors ravaged by Hurricane Maria

With all of the island’s 1,500 Jewish community members safe and accounted for, the next step is distributing food and water to those in need… Read More ›

US Ambassador: Settlements are part of Israel proper

US Ambassador: Settlements are part of Israel proper

David Friedman says Israel is ‘only occupying 2 percent of the West Bank,’ adding ‘there is important security considerations to those settlements, there’s important nationalistic,… Read More ›

Washington rebuffs own envoy for saying ‘settlements are part of Israel’

Washington rebuffs own envoy for saying ‘settlements are part of Israel’

State Department spokeswoman says David Friedman’s statement should ‘not be read as a shift in US policy’   WASHINGTON — For the second time since… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Yad Vashem Showcases Handmade Yom Kippur Prayer Book From Holocaust

Jerusalem – Yad Vashem Showcases Handmade Yom Kippur Prayer Book From Holocaust

  Jerusalem – Ahead of the Jewish Day of Atonement, Israel’s Holocaust remembrance center is showcasing pages of a mimeographed copy of a Yom Kippur… Read More ›

Writer Under Fire for Demonizing German Jews

Writer Under Fire for Demonizing German Jews

The journalist suggested undue Jewish power in the media.   German Jews and experts in the field of antisemitism in the press slammed a journalist… Read More ›

Netanyahu vows ‘not to uproot Jews or Arabs’

Netanyahu vows ‘not to uproot Jews or Arabs’

During ceremony marking 50 years to Jewish settlement in West Bank, the prime minister boasts of a return home ‘to our ancestral land,’ adding ‘We’ve… Read More ›

Rivlin: Interpol hurting itself by admitting Palestinians

Rivlin: Interpol hurting itself by admitting Palestinians

President says world policing body’s ability to fight terror will be harmed, thanks Merkel for stance against AfD; US Jewish groups also slam Interpol move… Read More ›

Some rabbis used their High Holiday sermons to bash Trump – others demurred

Some rabbis used their High Holiday sermons to bash Trump – others demurred

Religious leaders disagree on talking politics from the pulpit: for every rabbi who insists on taking clear stands, others worry about alienating congregants   JTA… Read More ›

UN: Israeli, PA Incitement Violates Resolution 2334

UN: Israeli, PA Incitement Violates Resolution 2334

Such activity is “making the twostate solution increasingly unattainable and undermining Palestinian belief in the international peace efforts.”   Israelis and Palestinians have engaged in… Read More ›

Washington – Trump Aide Greenblatt Returning To Israel For Peace Talks: Official

Washington – Trump Aide Greenblatt Returning To Israel For Peace Talks: Official

  Washington –  President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace negotiator, Jason Greenblatt, is returning to Israel to “continue the peace track” after the president met… Read More ›

One-Sided Story: Merkel’s Cabinet Meets Predominantly Anti-Israel NGOs

One-Sided Story: Merkel’s Cabinet Meets Predominantly Anti-Israel NGOs

“A dialogue should also consist of talks with positions that one does not share.”   German Green Party MP Volker Beck criticized on Thursday members… Read More ›

Relations between Israel and US Jewry must be mended

Relations between Israel and US Jewry must be mended

Op-ed: The Jewish American public has the best interest of the Jewish people’s homeland in mind, but the days in which being pro-Israel means blindly… Read More ›

‘Jewish Tradition and Halacha Have Become Stagnant’

‘Jewish Tradition and Halacha Have Become Stagnant’

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo pulls no punches in telling ‘In Jerusalem’ how Judaism and the rabbinic establishment can begin to respond to the current reality.… Read More ›

Naples, FL – After Irma, Florida Jews Seek Respite In High Holy Days

Naples, FL – After Irma, Florida Jews Seek Respite In High Holy Days

  Naples, FL – During Hurricane Irma, Temple Shalom served as a sanctuary of a different kind. When the storm changed course at the last… Read More ›