Otisville, NY – Michael Cohen took a last swipe at President Donald Trump as he reported to a federal prison Monday to begin a three-year prison sentence for crimes including tax evasion and campaign finance violations related to hush-money payments made to protect his former boss. “I hope that when I return to my family [...]

Kiev – Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian Jewish actor who was elected president last month, met the country’s top Chabad rabbis. The meeting took place in Kiev, the Jewish community of Dnepro wrote on its website Monday, but did not say when or what Zelensky said. Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, a Chabad leader who attended the meeting [...]

Eisenach, Germany – High-ranking officials of Germany’s Lutheran church have unveiled an installation to remember the malign activities of a so-called “dejudification institute” that was founded 80 years ago to eliminate all Jewish influence from Christian life in the country then run by the Nazis. Lutheran Bishop Ilse Junkermann unveiled the memorial Monday in the [...]

Warsaw – Poland’s prime minister declared that his government will not pay compensation for property lost during World War II since, he said, Poles were the war’s major victim. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki made the statement on Saturday during the “patriotic picnic” in the town of Pultusk in central Poland. “We were the most murdered [...]

Paris – Relentless pursuit of economic growth, twinned with the impact of climate change, has put an “unprecedented” one million species at risk of extinction, scientists said on Monday in a landmark report on the damage done by modern civilization to the natural world. Only a wide-ranging transformation of the global economic and financial system [...]

Washington – In the wake of a deadly attack on a Chabad synagogue in California, the movement will press for a mandatory moment of silence in American schools, a measure that it claims will reduce violence. In a release Sunday, the Washington-based American Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad) said chapters in all 50 states would advocate [...]

Ashdod, Israel – Alya and Tommy Shapiro were planning to celebrate Liam’s fourth birthday in Ashdod on Saturday when their plans were violently disturbed by barrages of rockets launched by terrorists from Gaza. They understood that celebrating in Ashdod was no longer an option, so they decided to move further north with the hope of [...]

New York – Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, headed to a federal prison to begin a three-year sentence on Monday, taking a parting shot at his former boss in remarks to reporters as he left his Manhattan apartment building. Cohen, who once vowed to “take a bullet” for Trump but now calls [...]

New York – U.S. health officials say at least 60 more measles cases have been reported, increasing a 2019 tally that is already the highest in 25 years. Officials on Monday said 764 cases have been reported as of last Thursday. It’s the most in the U.S. since 1994, when 963 were reported. New York [...]

Washington – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler on Monday scheduled a vote Wednesday to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress, escalating the battle between the Democrat-led House and President Donald Trump’s administration. Nadler is proposing to hold Barr in contempt after the Justice Department declined to provide the committee with a [...]