ILLINOIS (JNS) — A Palestinian student at the Catholic Benedictine University, about 30 miles west of Chicago, called on a Holocaust survivor to compare the murder of 6 million Jews to Israel’s alleged treatment of the Palestinians, followed by her walking out on his speech after he declined to do so. After a speech last […]

JERUSALEM (VosIzNeias) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would sign off on the extradition of sex abuse suspect Malka Leifer if so ordered by a Jerusalem court. The Times Of Israel reports that Netanyahu met Monday with a bipartisan Australian delegation of former ministers, community leaders, and other senior officials led by […]

KIEV (JTA) — It was not his desired meeting place, but Rudy Giuliani still looked very comfortable enjoying a cigar in Paris with Moshe Azman, a Chabad rabbi who is one of several figures claiming to be the chief rabbi of Ukraine. Later that same day, May 21, Giuliani tweeted out a photograph of the […]

CALIFORNIA (JNS) Up and down the state of California, synagogues, Hebrew schools and Jewish residents are dealing with effects of wildfires that have consumed tens of thousands of acres in recent days, from evacuations to school closures to days with no electricity as authorities try to limit the fire damage and danger. In the Northern […]

RAMOT (VosIzNeias) — In a adventure gone wrong, a 20-year-old Yeshiva student passed away after falling around 100 feet off a cliff on Monday. Yerachmiel Yeshayahu Brecher of Ramot was on a trip with a group of friends. They were visiting an area known as “Nachal Smar” near Mitzpeh Shalom. The boys were reportedly rappelling […]

PITTSBURGH (JTA) — The Pittsburgh Steelers will hold a moment of silence at the start of their Monday Night Football game to remember the victims of the attack one year ago on the Tree of Life synagogue building. “On this anniversary of the tragic day in our city when innocent people were gunned down in […]

NORTH MIAMI BEACH (VosIzNeias) — In a tragic turn of events, a 43-year-old father of 3 passed away Monday, after he was critically injured in a car accident. Daniel Jerushalmi was the victim of a 6 car pile-up in North Miami Beach last Thursday. The accident occured on Northeast 163rd Street and Biscayne Boulevard, in […]

BERLIN (JTA) — An investigation was dropped into the case of a Berlin rabbi allegedly spit on after leaving synagogue services. State prosecutors confirmed Thursday that they had dropped the case after Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, president of the city’s Chabad community, was unable to identify the suspects. Teichtal had reported that several men insulted him […]

PITTSBURGH (JTA) — Students at a Jewish day school in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh sent messages to marginalized groups and communities that have been victims of mass shootings to mark the one-year anniversary of the shooting at a nearby synagogue building. The Community Day School is located about a mile from the Tree […]

BOSTON (JTA) — The Boston Red Sox have hired Chaim Bloom as the team’s new head of baseball operations. Bloom agreed to a contract on Friday but the official announcement will not take place until at least Monday, the Boston Globe reported. Bloom, 36, comes to the Red Sox from the Tampa Bay Rays. The […]