‘Dancing with the fishes … ’
You never know when something heimishe, something many Jews may associate with old-fashioned, staid Jewish fare, like herring and crackers, will somehow turn high-end and hipster. One millennial, barely out of his teens, is putting...
IfNotNow disrupts Shabbat services, blocks University of Texas Chabad entrance
The University of Texas at Austin chapter of the anti-Israel group IfNotNow blocked the entrance of the Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center at the school on Saturday and protested a former Israel Defense Forces’...
Relevant, responsive, ready: Birthright at 19, still growing strong
For Birthright Israel, 2018 was nothing short of a banner year—a year that accomplished something organizers could only have dreamed of back in 1999. That’s when a few key philanthropists linked arms with the...
Mass grave of more than 1,000 Jews shot by Nazis unearthed in Brest, Belarus
mass grave of more than 1,000 Jews shot in the head by the Nazis during the Holocaust has been uncovered in Belarus.
Currently, 600 skeletons have been unearthed by Belarusian soldiers in a pit at...
Egypt cleans and removes slums near 1,200-year-old Jewish cemetery
In response to requests from the international Jewish community, Egypt has started eliminating slums near Bassatine Cemetery, in the eastern part of the second-oldest Jewish cemetery on earth, according to those in Cairo and...
British parliament members sign letter supporting new Holocaust memorial
More than 150 parliament members in the United Kingdom from across the political spectrum have signed a lettersupporting the Westminster Holocaust memorial, remarking that it would “stand as a testimony” to combating bigotry.
The National Holocaust...
From Montenegro to Japan: New network of Jewish Sunday schools opens
A new Jewish Sunday school has opened in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, representing the 17th school established as a part of an educational program called JFUTURE.
Intended for families not active in Jewish communal life,...
Study: Polish local norms helped Nazis wipe out local Jewry
Large parts of the Polish population during the Holocaust believed helping Jews went against their local norms, a new study from the Polish Academy of Sciences shows.
The academy, a state-run institution, focused on a...
Venezuela’s Guaidó appoints Jewish envoy to Argentina
Venezuela’s self-declared interim president, Juan Guaidó, has appointed Elisa Alejandra Trotta Gamus as the country’s envoy to Argentina.
A Venezuelan native, Gamus, 36—a lawyer and human-rights activist—was a one-time representative to the Latin American Jewish Congress.
Israeli...
PA deletes Jewish history, renames signs in key sites in Judea and Samaria
The Palestinian Authority is violating its agreements with Israel by trying to redefine historic sites and nature reserves in Judea and Samaria, Israel Hayom has learned.
The Oslo II Accord, as well as subsequent agreements, grant the...