Anti-Semitic Incidents Dip By 12% Worldwide – Rise In U.S.
A report released by Israeli researchers says violent attacks on Jews dropped for a second straight year in 2016, while other forms of anti-Semitism are on the rise worldwide, particularly on US campuses.
Researchers at...
Will One Of These Jewish Democrats Be The Next Jon Ossoff?
Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff’s elevation from documentary producer to serious contender for a solid-red Congressional seat was an exquisite bit of political alchemy: One part charisma, two parts timing, and about a thousand parts...
Jewish community center bomb threat suspect charged in US as investigation continues
A young man accused of making a series of threatening phone calls to Jewish community centers earlier this year was charged in two federal complaints Friday.
Eighteen-year-old Michael Ron David Kadar, who holds dual Israeli...
Oldest Holocaust Museum Recasts Lessons as ‘a Warning Sign’
As a teenager, Dorka Sternberg watched as Nazi officers, enraged after two youths from the underground fired a handgun at them, randomly picked 25 young men and women from a roundup in her Polish...
In Anne Frank’s childhood neighborhood, the buildings do not forget
Far from the city center but close to the wide Amstel River, Anne Frank’s childhood home is found in the tidy River Quarter. Although vast changes have occurred in some Amsterdam neighborhoods since World...
Egypt’s Jewish Community Struggles to Retain Its Cultural Heritage
Up until the 1950s, Egypt’s Jewish community was thriving, with as many as 100,000 residents. Today, only about eighteen Jews remain, most of them elderly women, struggling to maintain their community’s centuries-old heritage in...
Commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
This week marks the 74th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a Jewish revolt against the Nazis that began on April 19, 1943 and lasted until May 16, 1943. Although thousands of Jews were...
Deviating from Torah law leads to consequences
This week’s Torah reading contains both narrative history and dogmatic Jewish halakha. It relates to us the tragic story of the deaths of the two older sons of Aaron, when they apparently willfully mishandled...
Separate but comfortable: How Israelis want to live
There is no better illustration of the data presented earlier today by The Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) than the decision made yesterday by Israel’s Supreme Court. The court, in a decision too complicated...
אַבֿרהם רייזען Avrom Reisen
אַבֿרהם רייזען (1876־1953) — פּאָעט, דערציילער
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