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‘More than just our homes were destroyed’

‘More than just our homes were destroyed’

“Where will you sleep?” a boy sitting on rubble was asked. “We won’t sleep,” he said.   It was a harrowing scene after police pulled… Read More ›

FBI to probe wave of bomb threats to US Jewish institutions

FBI to probe wave of bomb threats to US Jewish institutions

Federal authorities to investigate second string of hoax attacks targeting JCCs across country after 32 community centers, synagogues receive hoax threats   Federal authorities said… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Sweet Revenge Against Nazis As Holocaust Survivors Welcome 100th Great Grandchild

Jerusalem – Sweet Revenge Against Nazis As Holocaust Survivors Welcome 100th Great Grandchild

  Jerusalem – Like so many other Holocaust survivors, Michael and Marion Mittwoch consider their progeny to be the ultimate revenge against Hitler and this… Read More ›

Obama, Trump and the dangers of a ‘Jewish’ president

Obama, Trump and the dangers of a ‘Jewish’ president

The great success story of American Jewry has created a phenomenon perhaps unprecedented since the Khazar king, Bulan, converted to Judaism around the ninth century.… Read More ›

Eclipse ‘stopped the sun’ for biblical Joshua, Israeli scientists say

Eclipse ‘stopped the sun’ for biblical Joshua, Israeli scientists say

Researchers claim to pinpoint the exact date — October 30, 1207 BCE — and explanation for an astounding event in the Battle in Gibeon  … Read More ›

Obamacare repeal effort sends jitters through Jewish service groups

Obamacare repeal effort sends jitters through Jewish service groups

100-plus Jewish Family Service agencies across America are grappling with the question of what will happen once health care law is gone   NEW YORK… Read More ›

Jerusalem is undividable

Jerusalem is undividable

Op-ed: Instead of dividing Israel’s capital, we must expand it and strengthen its Jewish majority. How? Annexing Ma’ale Adumim to Jerusalem will dramatically affect the… Read More ›

242 years ago, the first Jew was elected to public office in the New World

242 years ago, the first Jew was elected to public office in the New World

27-year-old plantation owner Francis Salvador made history on Jan. 11, 1775, when he was appointed to the South Carolina Provincial Congress   JTA — Long… Read More ›

Jewish Groups Slam Trump’s ‘Inappropriate’ Comment

Jewish Groups Slam Trump’s ‘Inappropriate’ Comment

Anti-Defamation League: President-elect’s remark about Nazi Germany warrants an apology.   The Anti-Defamation League said a remark made Wednesday by US President-elect Donald Trump comparing… Read More ›

Two Years Later, Paris Remembers Hyper Cacher

Two Years Later, Paris Remembers Hyper Cacher

“It is difficult to realize that this quiet place was the site of such barbaric acts.”   PARIS – For three hours, undeterred by the… Read More ›

Obama: Netanyahu talks of two-state solution but his actions undermine it

Obama: Netanyahu talks of two-state solution but his actions undermine it

In final interview with Israeli TV, president says ‘unfettered support’ for settlements by his successor would bring ‘worsening situation’ to conflict   In a final… Read More ›

Serving faithfully: US religious girls in the Israeli army

Serving faithfully: US religious girls in the Israeli army

Every year, hundreds of young Jewish American women choose to leave the Orthodox homes they grew up in and make aliyah in order to defend… Read More ›

Victims of Jerusalem terror attack being laid to rest

Victims of Jerusalem terror attack being laid to rest

‘We send them to the army and we know that maybe they won’t come back. Did I ever think it would happen to me? Never,’… Read More ›

‘Online conversion’ helps many fulfill a dream — but controversy dogs the process

‘Online conversion’ helps many fulfill a dream — but controversy dogs the process

Suspicion surrounds rabbinical courts convening remotely, conversions to Judaism based on long-distance Jewish learning rather than in-person rabbinic counseling   JTA — The morning of… Read More ›

US House passes motion repudiating UN resolution on Israel

US House passes motion repudiating UN resolution on Israel

Passed with vote of 342-80, House Resolution 11 calls Security Council’s anti-settlements measure a ‘one-sided’ obstacle to peace   WASHINGTON — The US House of… Read More ›

Comment: Israel and the Trump administration

Comment: Israel and the Trump administration

Trump’s attitude toward Israel still remains an issue of considerable conjecture.   In just two weeks, a new US administration will enter the White House.… Read More ›

Campaign rhetoric, post-election hate crimes draw Jewish historians into fray

Campaign rhetoric, post-election hate crimes draw Jewish historians into fray

Since Election Day, scholars and curators of Jewish history have consistently issued one message: Watch out   NEW YORK — In the two months since… Read More ›

World Jewish students to Knesset: Stop saying no future for Jews in Europe

World Jewish students to Knesset: Stop saying no future for Jews in Europe

“They talk about peace, we talk about the war against BDS.”   European students from the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) called on Israeli officials… Read More ›

A Jew and an Indian make a film — about the African American experience

A Jew and an Indian make a film — about the African American experience

In ‘Barry,’ Adam Mansbach and Vikram Gandhi take a crack at portraying future president Barack Obama’s campus isolation during his Columbia years   SAN FRANCISCO… Read More ›

Jewish groups speak out against Paris peace conference following UN vote

Jewish groups speak out against Paris peace conference following UN vote

Netanyahu has repeatedly rejected the conference proposal.   NEW YORK – In the aftermath of the UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity, American Jewish… Read More ›