California day-school student homes in on Israeli education for ‘tzedakah’ project
A Jewish day-school student has visited ORT projects in Israel after researching the organization’s work for her school tzedakah project.
Karen Glenn, a 12-year-old at Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School in Palo Alto, Calif., decided to research...
Dutch national railway to compensate Holocaust survivors and their families
Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), the Dutch national railway company, announced over the weekend that it had completed the necessary preparation to pay compensation to Holocaust survivors who were sent via Dutch trains to the death...
Conference of Presidents taps William Daroff as new CEO
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an umbrella group with 53 member organizations, has selected William Daroff as its next CEO, JNS has learned.
Currently senior vice president for public policy and...
Nefesh B’Nefesh brings nearly 100 new ‘olim’ in largest of eight summer group flights
Nefesh B’Nefesh, in cooperation with the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, the Jewish Agency for Israel, KKL-JNF and Jewish National Fund-USA, welcomed 95 new immigrants (olim) to Israel on Wednesday.
Those on the group aliyah flight were...
August 4, 1912: Raoul Wallenberg was born
The best-known “Righteous Gentile,” Raoul Wallenberg, was born near Stockholm on this date in 1912. While serving as Sweden’s special envoy in Budapest between July and December 1944, Wallenberg saved tens of thousands of...
Tisha B’Av 101: Connecting the dots of Jewish memory
Memory and imagination: The two keys that unlock the Jewish holiday of Tisha B’Av.
In fact Tisha B’Av, a holiday many Jews are unfamiliar with, is all about memory, the collective memory of the Jewish...
New memoir by friend of Dylan’s reveals details about musician’s Jewish roots
A new memoir written by Bob Dylan’s best friend gives readers a glimpse into parts of the music icon’s Jewish side that have previously fallen under the radar.
In Dylan & Me: 50 Years of Adventures (written...
58 Jewish groups gather in New York to mobilize against anti-Semitism
Fifty-eight Jewish organizations gathered in New York City on Wednesday for a “National Consultation on Responses to Antisemitism” to address ever increasing anti-Semitic incidents in the United States, Europe and around the world.
Organized by...
Israeli poet Tuvia Ruebner, 95, died last Monday
Renowned and prolific Israeli poet Tuvia Ruebner died on Monday morning at the age of 95 at his home in Kibbutz Merchavia.
Ruebner was born as Kurt Erich in 1924 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. He grew...
A Jew is a Jew is a Jew
When I lived in Seoul, the rabbi at Chabad Korea invited me to dinner with some visiting rabbis. Jews being thin on the ground in the neighbourhood, I accepted, but warned him ahead of...