Crowd sings 'Happy Birthday' to 12-year-old Erez Calderon, who along with his sister, Sahar, and father, Ofer are currently being held captive in Gaza
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vows to 'persist and persist and persist' to bring back those held in Gaza

The popular apparel brand's CEO Jay L. Schottenstein is well-known for his charitable Jewish contributions, including to Chabad, whose teen program engineered the affixing event

Photojournalist Ziv Koren's images from two trips to country over the past year aim to expose tragedies of war

Trevor Bickford, 19, charged with four counts of attempted murder of police officers he assaulted on New Year's Eve

Trevor Bickford, 19, traveled to New York to 'carry out jihad,' say prosecutors, who charged Maine resident with assault and attempted murder in New Year's Eve attack

During ceremony, Democrat places one hand on a family Bible and his other holds photo of his late mother; praises city's resilience throughout pandemic

Some 15,000 spectators allowed in to watch the famed ball drop even as virus numbers soar in the US and the city posted record COVID numbers

Hundreds attend NYC gathering held as part of 'Shine a Light on Antisemitism' campaign, organized in response Jew-hatred in North America

An homage to 'Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw' in honor of the singer's latest Margaritaville resort in NYC's Times Square, which happens to house a synagogue on its bottom floors