Poway, CA – A gunman fired his semi-automatic rifle at Jewish worshippers after walking through a Southern California synagogue’s front entrance — a spot that religious leaders determined last year needed improved security. The Chabad of Poway synagogue applied for a federal grant to install gates and more secure doors to better protect that area. [...]

Warsaw – Thousands of young Jews from around the world joined Holocaust survivors and politicians Thursday for an annual Holocaust remembrance march in southern Poland that focuses on fighting anti-Semitism and hatred. About 10,000 marchers carrying Israeli flags and “Say NO to Antisemitism” banners took part in the annual March of the Living, which follows [...]

Washington – The House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing that isn’t really a hearing, with lawmakers facing an empty chair after Attorney General William Barr informed the panel he wouldn’t show up for the session on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report. House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler said as the session opened Thursday that [...]

Washington – Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein recited this morning the ‘Birchas Hagomel’ for miraculously being saved during a shooting at his synagogue last Saturday, at the Chabad in Washington, DC. Rabbi Goldstein flew to Washington last night, ahead of the National Day of Prayer event. The Rabbi and his family were personally invited to the event [...]

Warsaw – Ed Mosberg, a prominent Holocaust survivor from New Jersey, advised Poland’s president not to visit Israel over an Israeli minister’s anti-Polish remarks. Mosberg, a 93-year-old survivor of three concentration camps and honorary president of the From the Depths commemoration group, said Thursday at the Auschwitz former Nazi camp in Poland. “I told the [...]

Washington – President Donald Trump says people of faith around the world have faced terrible hardship of late. Trump says violence and terrorism against people of all faiths must end, and that “all civilized nations must join together in this effort.” Trump spoke Wednesday to faith leaders at a White House dinner in honor of [...]

Jerusalem – Israel came to a standstill on Thursday morning with a two-minute siren wailing across the country in remembrance of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Pedestrians stood in place, buses stopped on busy streets and cars pulled over on major highways — their drivers standing on the roads with their heads [...]

Jerusalem – The Israeli military says it struck several Hamas militant sites in Gaza in response to incendiary balloons with explosives launched from the strip. The military says it hit the sites in northern Gaza Strip early on Thursday. It says that afterward, two rockets were fired out of Gaza. There were no injuries on [...]

New York – “The Mueller Report” is now officially a best-seller. A published edition of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged ties between Russian officials and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign sold just under 42,000 copies last week, NPD BookScan reported Wednesday. Jointly edited by Scribner and The Washington Post, it sold more than any [...]

Washington – The arrest of an Army veteran in a plot to bomb a white supremacist rally in Southern California is the result of a confidential informant’s work. Court documents show that Mark Domingo was nabbed after the informant steered him away from impulsive gun attacks, offered opportunities to drop the plot and eventually led [...]