The Mishneh Torah, a 14-volume monumental work on Judaism by the 12th-century philosopher Rabbi Moshe Maimonides, has been translated and published in Russian for the first time. The Moscow-based Knizhniki Publishing House, which specializes in Jewish subjects, this summer completed the project that has taken eight years to complete and has cost about $1.5 million, […]

Far Rockaway – A 3-year-old child has been struck by a vehicle on Virginia Street in Far Rockaway. The incident took place at approximately 11:15 AM on Monday. The child was found unconcious on scene. He was rushed to Long Island Jewish Medical Center in critical condition. The name for Tehilim is Mordechai ben Yehudis. […]

Jerusalem – Israeli President, Reuven Rivlin opened Israel’s school year at the Robert M. Beren Machanaim Hesder Yeshiva, where he memorialized murdered student Dvir Sorek. “The radiance of Dvir’s personality captured the hearts of everyone,” Rivlin said Sunday in an address to Sorek’s classmates and teachers. “One of the finest young men of this good […]

Manchester – An identifiably Jewish couple was harassed about Israel’s treatment of Gaza during a train ride in Manchester, England. The anti-Semitic rant against the couple, dressed in Hasidic garb, was filmed by another passenger in the Metrolink on Thursday night, the Manchester Evening News reported. The man called across the train car to the […]

Chisinau, Moldova – Given enough vodka, some of Shimon Katz’s non-Jewish acquaintances here usually bring up a name that has complicated his relationship with them. That name is Ilan Shor, and it belongs to a Jewish businessman-turned-lawmaker who is believed to have fled to Israel to escape corruption charges. For most of the some 3,000 […]

The Talmud  in Chullin 7b says that” One doesn’t knock a finger below unless it is announced beforehand above.”  For the rabbi of the Chabad of Poway congregation, who lost his index finger when a gunman entered his shul and opened fire, killing one of the congregants, this talmudic dictum came dramatically true.  Rabbi Yisroel […]

New York – The photos of thousands of students and faculty of Yeshiva University appear on a white nationalist and anti-Semitic website. The photos were posted on the Vanguard News Network Forum, in a thread that mocked Jews’ for their appearance. The thread first appeared on June 3rd, 2018, and on June 27th, 2018, the […]

Jerusalem – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will extend “Jewish sovereignty” over all communities in the West Bank. He made the remarks Sunday to the new first graders on the first day of school at a national religious school in the Jewish settlement of Elkana, located in the northern West Bank. “We will not […]

Jerusalem – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the boycott of an Israeli television channel for producing and screening the controversial HBO series “Our Boys.” Netanyahu made the charge in a post Friday on Facebook, calling the show “anti-Semitic” and asserting that it “gives a bad and false name to Israel.” The post included […]

Jerusalem – The Israeli military on Sunday said that Lebanese militants had fired a barrage of anti-tank missiles at an Israeli army base, scoring a number of direct hits on Israeli targets. Israel responded with heavy fire toward targets in southern Lebanon. The sudden burst of violence raised the prospect of a wider round of […]