Lakewood, NJ – Orthodox Jews in America have often suffered from a media image depicting them as passive, unimaginative people who are just following their ancient dictates and living on welfare. Yet a recent Buzzfeed News article demonstrated that, far from being divorced from the business world around them, they are increasingly becoming leaders and […]

Onithsa, Nigeria – More than 250 Nigerian youth and 20 adults gathered Sept. 18-25 in Onithsa for a national week-long Jewish leadership and learning seminar organized by the Jerusalem-based Shavei Israel organization, activist and educator Danny Limor, and the Nigerian Jewish Youth Movement. The seminar included classes in Hebrew and Torah, lectures, Shabbat activities, singing […]

San Francisco – Eighty Jewish and pro-Israel groups signed a letter sent on Tuesday to the chancellor and general counsel of California State University that demands answers about a professor’s continued use of the school’s name to spread anti-Semitism and false propaganda against the State of Israel. The AMCHA-coordinated letter drew attention to a post […]

Germany – Germany returned two Nazi-looted late medieval panels to the heirs of a Jewish art collector. The predella panels, found at the base of an altar, were owned by businessman Harry Fuld Sr. Dating from about 1455, the works by the Italian artist Giovanni di Paolo depict two scenes of the life of St. […]

Several Jewish and Israeli humanitarian aid groups are providing aid or relief teams to the Bahamas following the catastrophic devastation unleashed by Hurricane Dorian. The storm struck the Bahamas as a powerful Category 5 storm on Sunday with wind gusts up to 220 mile per hour and a 23-foot storm surge, then stalled for two […]

Jerusalem – On Friday August 23, 2019, Dvir Schnerb (19) was severely wounded next to the Binyamin community of Dolev. His sister Rena was murdered and his father moderately wounded. Yesterday, he was released from the hospital and today, successfully completed his EMT training at Magen David Adom. The emotional ceremony, attended by the Schnerb […]

New York – Over summer break, more than 135,000 parents, alumni, educators and supporters of private education in New York submitted comments to the State Education Department expressing opposition to the proposed “substantial equivalency” regulations and urging that they be withdrawn. Since 1894, parents in New York have been authorized by statute to enroll their […]

American online retailer Etsy was selling caps recently on its site with the caption “Make Israel Palestine Again” in the spirit of President Trump’s famous slogan “Make America Great Again”. The cap, which seems to be calling for the obliteration of Israel, is created and sold by Jordanian designer Mjcodez but ostensibly manufactured in the […]

New York – As he talks about the recent string of attacks on Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, Yosef Rapaport points to a small scar above his right eye. It’s the remnant of an anti-Semitic attack he experienced 50 years ago as a teenager in Montreal. “For those of us who look very Jewish, this has […]

The heavily Jewish Broward County has been collecting permit fees for nearly 40 years, but on Sept. 10, commissioners will vote on whether or not to repeal the kosher-license regulations. An annual $200 license to mark food as kosher in the heavily Jewish Broward County in Southeast Florida may change next week following complaints by […]