LA, Toronto Conservative rabbis make friendly wager on World Series
Just as governors and mayors make friendly wagers over sports championships, the Conservative rabbis Erez Sherman and Jarrod Grover, of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles and Beth Tikvah Synagogue in Toronto, respectively, told JNS...
Sandy Koufax jersey up for auction at $1 million estimate
A signed, game-worn Sandy Koufax jersey is up for auction with an estimated value of more than $1 million.
The listing at the Dallas-based Heritage Auctions notes that the No. 32 Los Angeles Dodgers jersey from 1966,...
Chess world stunned by death of Jewish prodigy Daniel Naroditsky
Daniel Naroditsky, a grandmaster who rose from child prodigy status to become among America’s most significant figures in competitive chess, died Monday at 29, the Associated Press reported.
The Charlotte Chess Center in North Carolina, where Naroditsky...
After the flood …
This week’s Torah portion tells the story of the great flood. The world had become corrupt, immoral and incorrigible. Even God’s infinite patience could not handle that generation. Noah had been building his ark...
IDF soldiers dance with Torah at Nova festival massacre site
Hundreds of people, including IDF soldiers, danced with a Torah scroll singing ‘The Nation of Israel lives’ on Tuesday, at the site of the Supernova music festival massacre near the Gaza Strip.
The event marking...
Tel Aviv University economist among 3 Nobel Prize laureates
Joel Mokyr, a Tel Aviv University scientist and dual citizen of Israel and the United States, on Monday won the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, along with Philippe Aghion of the College de...
Award-winning photojournalist launches first book, ‘October 7th, Bearing Witness’
Photojournalist Chen G. Schimmel, winner of the 2024 “Local Testimony Photograph of the Year Award,” announced today the release of her first book, October 7th, Bearing Witness.
Now available in stores and online, it documents the...
A Klezmer Adventure in old Bessarabia
Shloyml Boyml and His Purim Adventure by Yale Strom, with illustrations by Emil Singer-Fuer and translations to Yiddish by Nikolaj Olniansky; Hoor, Sweden: Olniansky Tekst Farlag publisher © 2023; ISBN 9789198-721980; 44 pages in English;...
How an Oct. 7 amputee refuses to stop dancing this Simchat Torah
As the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas is being put into effect, the first step is returning the remaining hostages seized by the terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. As...
Nearly 50,000 Jews celebrate Sukkot in Hebron
Almost 50,000 Jews visited the Cave of the Patriarchs in the Judea city of Hebron during the first two days of the joyous Sukkot festival on Oct. 7-8, according to Israel Defense Forces data.
A...