AURORA (JTA) — A Jewish community and activism center in Budapest sustained minor damage in what its operators said was arson by neo-Nazis. The Aurora community center in the capital city’s downtown was empty during the attempt to torch it on Wednesday, according to Adam Schonberger, director of the Marom, a Jewish association that runs […]

BNEI BRAK (VosIzNeias) — Rabbi Nissim Karelitz, the nephew of the Chazon Ish who founded an internationally renowned Beis Din and was known as one of the leading Poskim of our generation, passed away Monday night aged 93. Tens of thousands of people attended the funeral of Rabbi  Karelitz. The funeral procession left at 12:00 […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Simultaneous rallies calling for the release of an Israeli-American woman in prison in Russia on drug charges were held in Tel Aviv an New York. The rally in New York calling for the release of Naama Issachar was held outside of the Russian embassy. Hundreds attended rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL (JTA) — Two NASA astronauts, including an Israeli national, embarked Friday on the first all-female space walk. Jessica Meir, a Jewish woman who is a citizen of Sweden, and Michigan-born Christina Koch floated feet first out of the International Space Station’s Quest airlock. They are tasked with replacing a failed power control […]

NEW SQUARE (VosIzNeias) — A tragedy befell the New Square community Friday when a 8-year-old boy passed away in a boating accident. 8-year-old Yosef Goldman was out boating with his family in Haverstraw Bay Park when their boat flipped over. All the family members, including Yosef, we’re wearing life safety vests. All members of the […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Leaders of the Pittsburgh synagogue where worshippers were fatally shot last year want to rebuild and renovate the building, turning it into what they hope will be a “center for Jewish life in the United States” and a symbol against hatred. On Friday, they outlined their vision for the Tree of Life […]

LONDON (JTA) — A Jewish man was harassed, threatened and mocked on the street in a suburb of London until another local who is not Jewish chased off the offenders. The incident happened last week on Canvey Island near London as the victim, who was not named, was paying his cleaner outside her home, the […]

LONDON (JTA) — A Jewish lawmaker in Britain who has been a member of the Labour Party for 55 years resigned from the party on Thursday over its anti-Semitism problem. Louise Ellman said party leader Jeremy Corbyn is “not fit” to become prime minister, BBC reported. She wrote in her resignation letter that she is […]

KIEV (JTA) — An effigy of a Ukrainian-Jewish billionaire covered in red paint was placed at the entrance to a synagogue in Kiev. The life-size puppet of Igor Kolomoisky was found Monday at the entrance to the Brodsky Synagogue, Eduard Dolinsky, director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, wrote on Twitter. The puppet had a portrait […]

NEWTOWN, CT (JTA) — The father of a Jewish boy killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School won a $450,000 judgment against the editor of a book that claimed the 2012 massacre at the school never happened. A jury in Wisconsin determined the amount to be paid to Leonard Pozner, whose 6-year-old son Noah was […]