Daily Archives: December 3, 2025
Israeli rabbis visit America, some for first time, to better understand US Jews
“We want to know them, to understand them and to know how to make it easier for them if they will consider making aliyah,” a participant told JNS.
Last month, 17 Israeli rabbis visited the...
NBA: Avdija sets career high with 14 assists
The defeat marked Portland’s third straight loss, dropping the team to 13-8 on the season.
Avdija continued his stellar run, once again leading Portland in points and assists and coming just two rebounds shy of...
Press Iran to release Jewish man jailed for going to son’s bar mitzvah, lawmakers...
Last month, Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) sounded the alarm to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio about one of his constituents being held in an Iranian prison. The congressman wrote to Rubio again this...
Israeli delegation to visit White House for upcoming summit on AI
The Jewish state “is a leader in frontier AI cyber security and specialized chip design,” Jacob Helberg, U.S. under secretary of state for economic affairs, told reporters.
Israel will be among a select group of...
Senate panel advances Trump nominee on Jew-hatred
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations advanced the nomination of Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun to be the Trump administration’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism in a bipartisan vote on Wednesday.
If confirmed by the...
Guinness World Records ‘no longer accepting submissions from Israel, Palestinian territories’
The NGO, “Matnat Chaim” whose name means “Gift of Life” in Hebrew said it had contacted Guinness World Records regarding an event it is planning next month, which will bring together 2,000 Israeli kidney...
Colombia sends members of Lev Tahor cult to US
Colombia said Monday it had sent 26 members of a fundamentalist ultra-Orthodox Jewish cult to the United States, where they are under investigation for alleged child sex abuse.
Authorities in the South American nation said...
“America First” And Planetary Survival: A Primal Contradiction
“The egocentric ideal of a future reserved for those who have managed to attain egoistically the extremity of `everyone for himself` is false and against nature.”- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man...
Terrorists deserve justice, not flattering ‘NPR’ profiles
After the terrorist attack by an Afghan national on two members of the West Virginia National Guard in Washington, U.S. President Donald Trump labeled the murderer a “savage monster” and an “animal.” He also...