Washington – Will Bernie Sanders be America’s first Jewish president? That’s up to Democratic primary voters and then the rest of the electorate should he receive his party’s nomination. But the Vermont senator’s choice of a virulent opponent of Israel and a close ally of some of the country’s leading anti-Semites as an official campaign […]

Brooklyn – Esther Gopin is fearful to go out in the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she’s lived her whole life. Many of her friends who feel the same decided to stay home for Labor Day, instead of going out to celebrate, and have recently bought pepper spray to protect themselves in the […]

Pittsburgh – When visiting Holocaust memorials in Lithuania and Poland this week, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf will bring along the mezuzah hat was on the office door of Rabbi Jeffrey Myers of the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, where 11 Jewish worshippers were shot and killed by a […]

Washington – A Delaware rabbi wrote a fundraising endorsement for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign citing Biden’s appearance at the shiva for a constituent of modest means. Rabbi Michael Beals was leading a minyan in 2006 for Sylvia Greenhouse, who lived in a senior living facility in Claymont, a town at the northern tip of Delaware. […]

Minnesota – An early Monday morning fire destroyed a synagogue in northern Minnesota. The cause of the fire at the Adas Israel congregation, a traditional synagogue in Duluth, was unclear, according to local news reports. It appears to have destroyed much of the building. Firefighters responded to the fire at the Adas Israel Congregation about […]

California – The body of the Jewish woman who was on the boat that caught fire off the coast of California has been released. The burial of Yulia Krashennaya will be held today in New Jersey. A coordinated effort by various organizations and activists resulted in the body being released days earlier than the rest […]

Spain – A computer glitch in the government portal of Spain caused thousands of applications for citizenship by Sephardic Jews to be reported approved even though they are still pending. The Spanish Foreign Ministry reported the error in a statement Friday. Under a law passed in Spain in 2015, descendants of Sephardic Jews may become […]

Nevada – The annual Burning Man festival presented an art exhibit featuring naked dolls being led into ovens at a simulated death camp. The “Barbie Death Camp and Wine Bistro,” as it is called by the Nevada festival, has led to widespread outrage at what many see as the trivialization of the Holocaust. The exhibit […]

Warsaw – A U.S.-based Jewish foundation held an event in Warsaw on Sunday to honor Polish gentiles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, a number that grows smaller each year, with U.S. and Israeli diplomats also paying their respects to the elderly Poles who put their lives in danger to save others. Those still living […]

Vilnius – Demonstrators in Lithuania’s capital city installed without a permit a plaque honoring a Nazi collaborator after the municipality had an earlier plaque dedicated to him removed. Nationalists on Thursday hastily mounted a plaque they had made for Jonas Noreika in Vilnius on an external wall of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy […]