Masa Israel intros program for Diaspora volunteers during war
The first group of 20 volunteers for a six-week Masa Israel Journey program to assist residents in the country's south arrived this week.
"The new program allows young Jewish adults from around the world to...
Family in Reserves
A basic aspect of life in Israel is the requirement that every adult, whether male or female, must serve in the IDF for a few years upon reaching the age of 18. While serving...
Online program brings Jewish learning to deaf, hard of hearing
Staci Blumenfeld is deeply curious about Judaism. She finally got to dig in over the past six weeks.
“I have long had the desire to understand who I am, where my ancestors come from, the...
Los Angeles Theater Critic, San Diego Jewish World Contributor Cynthia Citron Dies at 89
Cynthia Wynn Taylor Citron, born September 16, 1934, in Boston, died November 11, 2023, in New York, of pneumonia and old age.
For nearly 20 years she was a well known theater critic in Los...
At 290,000-strong, ‘March for Israel’ is ‘largest pro-Israel gathering in history’
“We have indeed made history today with over 290,000 of us gathered here on the National Mall. This is the largest pro-Israel gathering in history," William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of...
Jewish Community of Oporto produces film on the 1506 massacre in Lisbon
To know the 1506 massacre in Lisbon is to know the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel and the historic genocides of Jews all over Europe. The only change has been in the weapons.
The...
William Medwied, Holocaust Survivor, 1933-2023
William Medwied, 90 a Holocaust survivor from Ukraine, passed peacefully on September 30. There is a tradition that when people die on Shabbat they are immediately in heaven with G-d.
Medwied spent the war years...
Manouchehr Bibiyan, Iranian entertainment producer and ‘proud Jew,’ dies at 90
Manouchehr Bibiyan, a pioneering Iranian-American Jewish entertainment producer and political activist died on Aug. 27 in Los Angeles. He was 90 years old.
Bibiyan became Iran’s first and most successful modern pop-music recording producer, having...
Chassidic singer ‘Dedi’ Graucher dies at age 62
After years fighting a serious illness, Oded Dovid (“Dedi”) Graucher died in Jerusalem on Sept. 11.
Graucher rose to prominence following the release of his second album, 1993’s “Ratza” with its epic title track making him famous...
Rabbi who founded Chabad in the Netherlands dies at age 85
Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak (Ies) Vorst, founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in the Netherlands, died on Sept. 14 at the age of 85.
Vorst was born in 1938, the son of the chief rabbi of Rotterdam....