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 […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Jewish Agency will fight against anti-Semitism and bring together Jews in the Diaspora, plus build bridges between Israel and the Diaspora as part of its new operating model. The organization’s board of governors is set to approve the new strategic plan for the next decade at its meeting in Jerusalem, which […]

JERUSALEM (VosIzNeias) – Chair of the Greater Pittsburgh Jewish Federation and Chair of UIA Cynthia Shapira, spoke in Jerusalem on Sunday to mark one year since the massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Addressing the audience at The Jewish Agency Board of Trustees, she said that on this “very sad and terrible […]

JERUSALEM (VosIzNeias) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated U.S. President Donald Trump Sunday on the targeted killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. “I want to congratulate President Trump on the impressive achievement, an operation that led to the death of the Daash leader Al Baghdadi,” said Netanyahu. “This reflects the united resolve of the […]

NEW JERSEY (VosIzNeias) — Disturbing video footage has surfaced that appears to show a NJ State Trooper stopping Monsey Hatzolah members from administering medical care at an MVA on the Garden State Parkway. The Monsey Hatzolah members were responding to an overturned vehicle. The video begins with the officer yelling at the Hatzolah members to […]

WASHINGTON (JNS) — The Democratic presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) recently picked anti-Semitic comedian and University of Detroit Mercy School of Law Professor Amer Zahr, who has expressed support for the anti-Israel BDS movement. “Does #BDS ‘single out’ #Israel in the face of other global atrocities? YES! Because it was started by us […]

BRIDGEPORT (JTA) — A synagogue in Connecticut has been evacuated after it received two bomb threats. Congregation B’nai Israel, a Reform congregation in Bridgeport, was evacuated on Friday while police investigated the threats, the city’s police said on Twitter. The police department said all had been evacuated safely. Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of the […]

SPAIN (JTA) — One of the world’s oldest, most ornate and most expensive copies of the Hebrew Bible has returned from Britain to northern Spain, where it was created centuries ago. The Kennicott Bible, which has over 900 pages and was created in 1476, will go on display in the city of Santiago de Compostela, […]

(JNS) StopAntisemitism.org is accepting nominations for the world’s first “Antisemite of the Year Award.” The watchdog group is calling on the public to select the most notoriously vile anti-Semites who not only spread hatred, but also incite violence against the Jewish people. StopAntisemitism.org is a leading organization focused on exposing anti-Semites from the radical right, […]