BERLIN (AP) — An escape tunnel underneath the Berlin Wall opened to the public on Thursday for the first time amid celebrations of the 30-year anniversary of the opening of communist East Germany’s border. The tunnel at Bernauer Strasse, near the city’s main Wall memorial, was opened by Mayor Michael Mueller. He thanked those who […]

LONDON (AP) – Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s election campaign was hit Thursday by renewed claims that he is not fit to lead the country because of his tolerance of anti-Semitic attitudes. The criticism came from a former member of the Labour Party’s inner circle who took the extraordinary step of urging British voters to […]

SAO PAUALO (JTA) – Players for one of Brazil’s most popular soccer teams wore Stars of David on their jerseys to remember Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. Some 22,000 supporters watched the Corinthians team’s eleven players take the field in uniforms bearing a yellow star embroidered above the club’s emblem and beat Fortaleza by […]

SIDI KACEM (AP) – Ivanka Trump says families, communities and countries flourish when women are invested in and included in the economy. President Donald Trump’s daughter and White House adviser saw real life examples in Morocco on Thursday when she met four women who are benefiting from changes that allow them to own land. Ivanka […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is denying he wanted Attorney General William Barr to hold a press conference to declare he broke no laws during a phone call in which he pressed Ukraine’s president to investigate Democrats. Trump tweeted early Thursday that the story, first reported by The Washington Post, “is totally untrue and […]

CHAPPAQUA, NY (VosIzNeias) – Residents of the New Castle community gathered on Wednesday to dedicate the New Castle Holocaust Memorial. In a ceremony attended by more than 200 residents, elected officials, several local Holocaust survivors and Chappaqua resident and former President Bill Clinton, the town unveiled and dedicated the monument near the gazebo on South […]

MILAN (AP) – An 89-year-old Auschwitz survivor who is a senator-for-life in Italy has unwittingly provoked one of the country’s most intense confrontations with anti-Semitism since the end of Italy’s Fascist dictatorship during World War II. In response to revelations that she is subject to 200 social media attacks each day, Liliana Segre called for […]

PORTLAND, Maine (VosiZNeias) — Lewiston, which is the second-largest city in the state of Maine, has elected a Somali American to its city council following a campaign marred by racist attacks and social media threats. Safiya Khalid, a 23-year-old immigrant from Somalia, soundly defeated a fellow Democrat on Tuesday for a seat on the Lewiston […]

FREIBURG, Germany (VosIzNeias) — Samuel Kantrowitz, a 19-year-old Jewish student, was doing his regular workout at the fitness center in the city when a man grabbed him from behind, threw off his Kippah and shouted “Dirty Jew” and “Free Palestine.” The attacker then added “Do you want me to hit you? Get out of here, […]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com There is a major controversy occurring in Boro Park now between an all-female Basic Life Support First Responders Agency and Hatzolah, for those who are following the news.  Hatzolah is a remarkable organization that has literally saved tens of thousands of lives.  Ezras Nashim was an organization formed in […]