Poway, CA – A 19-year-old gunman with AR-type assault weapon opened fire inside a synagogue near San Diego as worshippers celebrated the last day of a major Jewish holiday, killing a woman and wounding three others Saturday, authorities said. President Donald Trump and other elected officials decried what they called an anti-Semitic attack exactly six [...]

New York – Locals and visitors looking for a Judaica store here will soon only have two options. J. Levine Books and Judaica, a longtime seller of Jewish books, gifts and ritual objects, will close at the end of May, owner Daniel Levine told The New York Jewish Week. Levine, the Midtown Manhattan shop’s fourth-generation [...]

Beach Park, IL – A chemical leak that caused a toxic plume to hang for hours over a northern Chicago suburb Thursday sickened dozens of people, including seven who are in critical condition, officials said. Lake Forest Fire Chief Mike Gallo said a tractor was towing two separate two-ton containers of anhydrous ammonia when the [...]

Orlando, FL – Guests at a Passover program in Florida faced eviction after it emerged the organizer owed at least $75,000 to the resort, vendors and staff. The A Different Pesach program had promised guests would stay in private villas in Orlando with shared communal spaces, including a synagogue tent, and kosher food for the [...]

Washington – White House press secretary Sarah Sanders held her first briefing in more than a month Thursday, but her questioners weren’t working journalists. Instead, Sanders made herself available for what the White House said was a “kids-only” press briefing for children participating in “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.” Journalists who cover [...]

Washington – President Donald Trump approved the payment of a $2 million bill presented by North Korea to cover its care of comatose American Otto Warmbier, a college student who died shortly after being returned home from 17 months in a North Korean prison, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. The Post said an invoice [...]

Wilmington, DE – Former Vice President Joe Biden has dismissed a reporter’s question about why he wasn’t endorsed for 2020 by former President Barack Obama, who issued a statement calling his choice of Biden as a running mate in 2008 “one of the best decisions” he’s ever made. Biden arrived in Wilmington, Delaware, on Thursday [...]

Washington – Joe Biden spent a hot August day at his lakefront Delaware home watching hatred on display in Charlottesville, Virginia, where, days earlier, torch-wielding white supremacists had marched through town. A counter-protester advocating racial equality was killed when a white supremacist drove his car into a crowd. When President Donald Trump blamed the violence [...]

Jerusalem – Israel’s Foreign Ministry says Israel will participate in next year’s World Expo hosted by the United Arab Emirates, in another sign of warming relations with Gulf Arab states. The ministry said Thursday it “looks forward to sharing our innovative spirit and advances” in such fields as water, information and medical technologies at the [...]

Los Angeles – A one-time Islamic jihadist who spent years in an Israeli prison for attempting to bomb a bus was granted US citizenship and allowed to remain in the country for nearly a decade as federal authorities investigated his background, CNN is reporting. Federal authorities have been aware since at least 2010 that Shqaire [...]