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Yeshiva University’s 50-Game Winning Streak Ends With 73-59 Loss At Home
Yeshiva University’s history-making, record-breaking basketball winning streak came to an abrupt end Thursday night as the Maccabees suffered a bruising 73-59 loss at home,...
Sections Of Lost Sefer Torah Reappear 83 Years After Kristallnacht Disappearance
A German Protestant minister has handed over segments of a long lost Sefer Torah to the city of Görlitz in southeast Germany, 83 years...
NYC’s Next Comptroller Says He Will Push Yeshivos to Teach Secular Subjects
Brad Lander, the incoming New York City comptroller, vowed to do everything in his power to coax Orthodox yeshivos to teach a secular curriculum,...
Massachusetts Town Apologizes After Using Christian Menorah Photo In Chanukah Display
A small municipal holiday event turned into a big problem for Medford, Massachusetts, after a city worker included a menorah picture produced by Messianic...
Boris Johnson Breaks A Menorah Seconds After Receiving It As A Gift
Boris Johnson wasn’t trying to be funny when he broke the menorah he had received mere seconds before, but it certainly gave Israeli Foreign...
As More Israelis Choose Pure Olive Oil To Light The Menorah, Counterfeiters See An...
Observant Israelis increasingly like to use olive oil in their menorahs instead of wax candles because of its significance in the Chanukah story.
Those who...
Remains of Seven Jewish COVID-19 Victims Transferred From Morocco to Israel for Reburial
The bodies of seven Moroccan-Jewish victims of the COVID-19 pandemic were flown to Israel last week after being interred in a Casablanca Jewish cemetery...
Montana Jewish Community Seeks to Buy Back Synagogue it Sold for $1 in 1935
It’s been 86 years since the Jewish community of Helena, Montana, sold its first synagogue, Temple Emanu-El, to the city of Helena for just...
Insider: Life After Escaping the Lev Tahor Extremist Cult
From Insider.com
Mendy Levy as told to Jacob Shamsian
Mendy Levy was born in 2003 in Canada to parents who were members of Lev Tahor, an extremist Jewish...
‘Antisemitic’ Aerial Banner Was Actually A Marriage Proposal
The banner, dragged by a plane last week across the Florida sky, looked disconcerting.
“Jew, I have a question,” it said.
Certainly, it was a moment...
Shehecheyanu
By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
Reuven buys a new suit but will not wear it until he has it checked for shatnez. When does he make the bracha of Shehecheyanu; when...
German Prosecutors Prepare Dozen-Plus Cases Against Nazi War-Crime Suspects
Prosecutors in Germany are getting ready to bring forward more than a dozen legal cases against elderly men and women for their alleged work...
Biden Selects Historian Who Endorsed Comparison Of Trump To Nazis As Anti-Semitism Envoy
President Joe Biden is set to nominate Deborah Lipstadt, the Emory University Holocaust historian, to be the State Department’s antisemitism envoy.
The White House alerted...
Watch: Inside ArtScroll – Episode 2:13: Interview with Yonoson Rosenblum On the Magical Influence of...
Day after day. Week after week. Year after year. Neshamah after neshamah, Rabbi Meir Schuster was at the Kosel, the Central Bus Station, the Hebrew University campus, searching for people...
Pressure Builds On Biden Over Lack Of Key Jewish Appointments
For months, Jewish organizations in the United States have been lobbying to appoint a White House Jewish liaison. And after numerous meetings between Jewish...
Jewish Biden Backers, Senior Legislators Lobby For Robert Wexler As Next Ambassador To Israel
At least three senior Jewish Democratic lawmakers in the US House of Representatives have advanced the name of a former Florida senator, to be...
Teachers Union President Under Fire For Saying Jews ‘Part Of Ownership Class’
The president of a national teachers’ union said American Jews are part of an “ownership class” in the United States who want to take...
Reps. Grace Meng And Ted Lieu Join Anti-Semitism Task Force Leadership, Replacing 2 Jewish...
Two Taiwanese-American members of Congress have joined the leadership of its anti-Semitism task force.
Reps. Grace Meng of New York and Ted Lieu of California,...
Chabad Rabbi Fired Over Anti-Vax Posts
A longtime Chabad emissary in Massachusetts was fired after months of social media posts in which he railed against pandemic-related lockdowns and mask mandates.
In...
AIN’T GONNA WORK ON SATURDAY: Amar’e Yehoshafat Stoudemire Granted Off from Nets for Shabbos
Amar’e Yehoshafat Stoudemire, the former NBA star-turned-ger tzedek, is settling into his new job as an assistant player development coach for the Brooklyn Nets....