Census: 6000 less Australian Jews
THE number of Jewish people in Australia has dropped by more than six per cent in the last five years, according to Census data released this week.
Statisticians have been left scratching their heads, and...
OU Advocacy mission brings community leaders to Washington
More than 125 lay and rabbinic leaders representing Orthodox Jewish communities from across the country convened on Capitol Hill and at the White House June 15 for the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center’s annual leadership...
Brazil denied 16,000 visas to Jews during Nazi regime — study
The research was undertaken by Brazil’s Virtual Archives on Holocaust and Antisemitism Institute, or Arqshoah. It was made public for the first time last week in a documentary aired on Brazilian television.
The figures were...
Vie privée, sécurité : les Français se disent plus prudents qu’avant sur internet
Les Français auraient-ils (enfin) saisi l’importance de protéger leurs données sur internet? C’est du moins que laisse croire une étude, réalisée par Médiamétrie et l’Institut Mines-Télécom. On y apprend que 91% des 2000 personnes interrogées...
Mansiones Sefaradis en Curaçao
La Posta de las Antilyas ‘Holandezas emitio una seria de timbros ke sus tema prinsipal es la arkitektura de las kazas en la kapitala, Willemstaadt, en la izla de Curaçao.
En uno de estos timbros...
Why Jews are losing the war on college campuses
According to a recent study conducted by the “Brand Israel Group,” support for Israel among Jewish college students has dropped 27% in the last 6 years. This mirrors a smaller but still significant drop...
Jewish education today: Timeless truths in a ‘new’ world
Three thousand years ago, King Solomon expressed timeless wisdom about the illusory nature of change and human progress. Then, as now, the Jewish people strived to maintain our unique sense of national mission and...
Trump administration wants resolution to Kotel crisis, us official says
The Trump administration is engaging with the Israeli government and American Jewish community leaders in order to encourage resolution to a growing crisis over the state of prayer at the Western Wall, an administration...
Shalom Organisation of the Jews in Bulgaria condemns attack on Muslim leader’s family in...
Bulgarian Jewish organisations, in a statement on June 28, condemned the previous day’s assault on the wife and two daughters of Birali Birali, Deputy Chief Mufti of Bulgaria and one of the leaders of...
In official statement, Chicago LGBT group calls Zionism a ‘’white-supremacist ideology’”
Organizers of the Chicago Dyke March on Tuesday defended their decision to eject three participants who displayed Jewish symbols by claiming that “Zionism is an inherently white-supremacist ideology.”
The group’s official statement also included screenshots of a chat between an organizer...