Argentina – A Buenos Aires synagogue inaugurated in 1907, one of the first in Argentina, was recovered after 20 years of being overrun with squatters. The synagogue is located in the La Boca area, the city’s original port, where the first Jewish immigrants from Europe originally settled. After the death of the rabbi that cared [...]

Los Angeles – Ben Kadish, who was 5 years old when he was shot and nearly killed by a white supremacist at a Los Angeles JCC, visited the hospital that saved him to mark the 20th anniversary of the attack. “Ben was a kindergartner when he came to us 20 years ago. No pulse, no [...]

Wall Street – Stocks marched broadly higher on Wall Street Thursday afternoon as investors at least temporarily set aside concerns about the heated trade war between the U.S. and China that roiled the market earlier in the week. The rally pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average up by more than 300 points as the market [...]

New York – Billionaire businessman Leslie Wexner, a major philanthropist to Jewish causes, said that alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein “misappropriated vast sums of money” from him. Wexner, the founder of Victoria’s Secret and The Limited, made the accusation in a brief letter to his Wexner Foundation, The New York Times reported. The letter said [...]

Washington – The number of migrants encountered by U.S. authorities at the southern border has dropped below 100,000 for the first time in five months amid increased collaboration with Mexico and Guatemala to crack down on the flow, according to government data released Thursday. In July, there were 82,049 people encountered by U.S. Customs and [...]

Oaklahoma City – Police in an Oklahoma City suburb were justified when they fatally shot a black teenager who was naked and unarmed, an attorney for the city argues in a response to a civil rights lawsuit filed by the teen’s parents. The parents of Isaiah Mark Lewis contend in their federal lawsuit that Sgt. [...]

Louisville, KY – The Republican Party, the Trump campaign and other GOP organizations said Thursday that they are freezing their spending on Twitter to protest the platform’s treatment of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Twitter temporarily locked McConnell’s campaign account Wednesday after it shared a video in which some protesters spoke of violence outside his [...]

Miami – A home health care aide was arrested for cheating an elderly Jewish couple in the Miami area out of at least $100,000, some of it Holocaust reparations. Odalis Lopez, 56, has worked as a caretaker for Rella Herman, 93, and Leonard Herman, 91, of suburban Pinecrest since 2011, the NBC Miami affiliate reported. [...]

Evansvill, IN – A southwestern Indiana man has been convicted in a January shooting inside a crowded Veterans of Foreign Wars post that wounded one person. A jury found 71-year-old John Michael Burghardt of Evansville guilty Wednesday on six charges, including two counts of attempted murder. His sentencing is set for a Sept. 4. The [...]

\Berlin – A 92-year-old former SS private will go on trial this fall in Germany on 5,230 counts of being an accessory to murder, accused of helping the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp function, a Hamburg court said Thursday. Though he is not accused of any specific killing, Bruno Dey is charged as an accessory to [...]