After Toronto shul shooting, Chikli accuses Canada of ignoring Jew-hatred
Amichai Chikli, Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, said on Tuesday that the shots fired at a Toronto synagogue the night before were part of a pattern of incidents against the Jewish...
Mordechai’s Persian asthma test
As U.S. forces gather around Iran (ancient Persia) this week for a controversial pre-emptive strike against their nuclear program, we are reminded of another controversial pre-emptive campaign in our history.
It was the pre-emptive strike...
Purim, then and now
On May 19, 2024, exactly six weeks after the first Iranian provocation, Iranian cleric and president Ebrahim Raisi, one of the masterminds of the attack on Israel, died in a helicopter crash. It blew...
UN official appears to claim photo of Iranian regime’s victims shows kids whom US,...
“If they are attacking the photo and not the message, then it is clear that my message was strong,” Vanessa Frazier wrote, “whether it was from that attack or not.”
Vanessa Frazier, special representative for...
NYPD stops reporting hate crimes still being probed, finds slight drop in anti-Jewish ones...
Anti-Jewish hate crimes in New York City in February were down slightly compared to the prior month and to February 2025 but still represented more than 55% of all hate crimes in the city,...
NJ man charged after ‘intentionally damaging’ Chabad headquarters in car-ramming attack
NJ man charged after ‘intentionally damaging’ Chabad headquarters in car-ramming attack
“Every New Yorker deserves to live in a safe city where they can practice their faith freely and without fear,” stated NYPD Commissioner Jessica...
NY library exhibit shows how magic could help Jews succeed, reinvent selves
In 1899, before he was Harry Houdini, Ehrich Weiss walked into an Omaha, Neb., police station and asked officers to tie him up, lock him down and see if he could escape. Minutes later,...
The last words of Julius Streicher “Purim Fest 1946,” and General (ret.)Henry G. Plitt...
The last words of Julius Streicher “Purim Fest 1946,"
Major Henry G. Plitt, an American Jew, was raised in New York. During World War II, he was in the American army assigned to a desk...
Three teenage siblings among nine killed in Iranian missile attack
They were on the way to the public shelter in the town synagogue.
But an Iranian missile cut them down.
The three teenage Biton siblings—Yaakov, 16, Avigail, 15, and Sarah, 13—were among the nine residents killed...