Jerusalem – Hundreds of people gathered in the old city of Jerusalem on Monday evening to reenact the Temple Passover celebration described in Jewish sources. The spectacle included silver trumpets, the washing of the hands of those believed to be priests and the feasting on lamb meat. People reenacting the Passover celebrations in Jerusalem with [...]

Washington – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is giving its highest honor to the Syria Civil Defence, a volunteer group that operates in rebel-controlled areas in Syria and Turkey. The group, also known as the White Helmets, was founded in 2014 during the Syrian Civil War and provides aid and rescue to those affected [...]

Kosher Guru’s Kosher For Passover 2019 Guide features content curated by Team Kosher Guru. Enjoy The Recipes, Chol Hamoed trip suggestions, and the Kosher for Passover Restaurant directory. Keep us posted on what you ate, where you ate, and how you spent your Chol Hamoed! Recipes It’s hard to put together a list of the [...]

San Francisco – Thousands of tourists could soon have to pay as much as $10 to drive down world-famous Lombard Street in San Francisco. City and state officials on Monday announced a bill that would give San Francisco the authority to establish a toll and reservation system for the street that winds down a steep [...]

Mount Holly, NJ – A New Jersey woman pleaded guilty Monday to her role in concocting a feel-good tale about a homeless man rescuing her from the side of a highway in order to scam 14,000 donors out of $400,000 in GoFundMe contributions. Katelyn McClure pleaded guilty in state Superior Court to second-degree theft by [...]

West Palm Beach, FL – A Chinese woman charged with bluffing her way into U.S. President Donald Trump’s Florida resort last month was denied bail on Monday by a federal judge who said he believed she was “up to something nefarious.” Yujing Zhang, who was carrying four cell phones and a laptop computer when arrested, [...]

The following excerpt comes from the JewishGen Passover Companion 2019. It was written by Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Greengrass, who describes how Jews imprisoned at Auschwitz-Birkenau managed to conduct a Seder. He writes: “The celebration of this Seder night left imprints on my soul. Now, when I perform the Passover service, I understand the meaning of [...]

Washington – Ecuador said Monday that it was not unfairly targeting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange when it revoked his asylum last week. Ecuadorian Foreign Minister José Valencia said that Assange’s behavior was “undeserving, disrespectful” and pointed to a video published by El País newspaper. The short video with no audio appears to show Assange arguing [...]

Berlin – The remains of 300 people killed by the Nazis and used by a German doctor for research will be buried in Berlin next month. The late Hermann Stieve kept tissue samples of the mostly female victims after he dissected their bodies for his research at the University of Berlin. He sometimes received the [...]

Washington – President Donald Trump spoke over the weekend with former President Jimmy Carter about his China policies and “numerous other topics.” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley says Trump reached out to Carter on Saturday after the former president wrote him “a beautiful letter” about ongoing trade negotiations between the U.S. and China. Trump’s norm-breaking [...]