Jewish People

Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, head of the organized crime death squad Murder, Inc. during the 1930s and the only major mob boss to be executed for a specific murder, was born on this date in...

Gershom Scholem (December 5, 1897 – February 21, 1982), was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern, academic study of Kabbalah. He was the first...

Paul Ehrlich, who cured syphilis and fathered the fields of chemotherapy and hematology, died in Germany on this date in 1915. His first major accomplishment, while recuperating from tuberculosis in Egypt, was the development...

For the first time since World War I, the German military is set to appoint a chief rabbi. The move, an initiative of German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, is designed both to serve the...

Israel is marking its annual Yom HaAliyah (“Aliyah Day”) with an entire week of incoming flights filled with new Jewish immigrants with the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) actively involved in this effort by sponsoring flights...

Days after Germany’s anti-Semitism czar said that Jews would be ill-advised to wear kippot in public in some parts of the country, one of the nation’s leading dailies printed a “do-it-yourself kippah” cutout on its front...

In the aftermath of Israel approving immigration flights from Ethiopia, the first group of 80 Ethiopian newcomers will arrive on Monday evening on flights organized by the Jewish Agency and funded by the International...

How many Jews live in South Florida? Where do they come from? And what do they need? Two new surveys, completed in May, are seeking answers to these questions and will determine whether South Florida...

In the trailer below for the documentary Einstein: Still a Revolutionary, the children seen and heard chanting “Einstein! Einstein! Rah! Rah!” are San Diegans. Possibly some of them may be centenarians still alive today. ...

One of the chief engineers involved in the creation and post-launch supervision of the moon-bound Israeli spacecraft “Beresheet” is a Chabad-Lubavitch Chassid who overcame Soviet oppression and anti-Semitism to play a leading role in Israel’s public and private space programs. Mathematician...