Rabbi Berel Wein: Recalling his Zionist opposition to the two-state nightmare
“The more I read and study Jewish history, the clearer it becomes that there is an Author and Planner, Who guides Israel to its destiny.”
— Rabbi Berel Wein (October 1990)
Rabbi Berel Wein, a Chicago-born pulpit...
Yehoram Gaon attends Jerusalem premiere of film documenting his life
On a balmy Jerusalem night on Aug. 18, the National Library of Israel’s Docu.Text festival kicked off with a gala premiere of the documentary film "Yehoram Gaon" at an outdoor screening in the adjacent...
New book reunites letters of Holocaust survivors that show how ‘unsettling’ it is to...
Goldie Morgentaler was going through her late mother Chava Rosenfarb’s belongings in 2011 when she found a package of letters in Polish. When Morgentaler opened them, she was surprised to see that they weren’t...
Gaslighting is not a Jewish value
Who would have thought that hundreds of rabbis would endorse vicious blood libels against the Jews? And worse still, call this a Jewish moral response?
An open letter signed by more than 400 rabbis from...
Jabotinsky’s enduring Zionist legacy
“So, today, I would like to reflect on these three sometimes-forgotten American virtues—honor, tradition and optimism.”
With those words, historian and pundit Victor Davis Hanson began the essence of his 2025 commencement address at Hillsdale College...
‘A place to walk proudly as a Jew’
Amid a sharp rise in antisemitism around the world since Oct. 7, 2023, Azerbaijan stands out for a different reason: Jews in this Muslim country walk safely, visibly and with pride.
For more than 15...
Jewish groups say Chilean government unresponsive to Jew-hatred
An umbrella group of Jewish organizations in Chile wrote to the country’s foreign minister this week, expressing concern that the government is not doing enough to combat a rise in antisemitism.
Nazila Ghanea, the U.N....
‘It makes you stronger,’ 96-year-old Holocaust survivor says of time in Shanghai during WWII
Despite dozens of Holocaust museums and memorials in the United States and extensive education and other programming about the Holocaust, the story of the some 20,000 Jews who fled from the Nazis in Central...
Nearly $9m distributed to Lithuanian Holocaust survivors, heirs
The World Jewish Restitution Organization helped negotiate an agreement with the Lithuanian government to secure a one-time, €7.5 million (roughly $8.75 million) payment to Lithuanian Holocaust survivors and their heirs.
The funds, administered by the...
On Jewish immortality
The Jewish people are a rare anomaly. The very fact that we exist cannot be a mere quirk in the history of nations. There must be something spiritual, indeed supernatural, about the Jewish people....