American online retailer Etsy was selling caps recently on its site with the caption “Make Israel Palestine Again” in the spirit of President Trump’s famous slogan “Make America Great Again”. The cap, which seems to be calling for the obliteration of Israel, is created and sold by Jordanian designer Mjcodez but ostensibly manufactured in the […]

New York – As he talks about the recent string of attacks on Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, Yosef Rapaport points to a small scar above his right eye. It’s the remnant of an anti-Semitic attack he experienced 50 years ago as a teenager in Montreal. “For those of us who look very Jewish, this has […]

The heavily Jewish Broward County has been collecting permit fees for nearly 40 years, but on Sept. 10, commissioners will vote on whether or not to repeal the kosher-license regulations. An annual $200 license to mark food as kosher in the heavily Jewish Broward County in Southeast Florida may change next week following complaints by […]

Argentina – Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the former president of Argentina who was indicted while in office for allegedly covering up Iran’s involvement in the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center, is under fire from a Jewish group in her country. The Argentine Zionist Organization took aim at Kirchner, now a candidate for […]

The epidemic of attacks against Jews in Brooklyn, N.Y., is indeed a crisis, but it’s an afterthought to groups mainly interested in weaponizing the issue for partisan purposes. If you’re Jewish, how afraid should you be of being a victim of a violent anti-Semitic hate crime? In the wake of the Pittsburgh and Poway synagogue […]

After devastating the northern Bahamas with a fury unprecedented in this Caribbean nation’s history, Hurricane Dorian is bearing down on the eastern coast of the United States with winds in excess of 110 miles per hour. The hurricane, one of the strongest on record in the Atlantic, has killed five people, leveling homes and flooding […]

Fresno, CA – Jewish and pro-Israel groups have rallied against an upcoming event at Clovis Community College (CCC) in California featuring Alison Weir, an anti-Semitic and anti-Israel activist and writer that even anti-Israel groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation have disassociated from. Jewish Journal first […]

Lakewood, NJ – In an interview conducted with the president of Lakewood Yeshiva, Rabbi Aharon Kotler, a myth and legend that has been well-entrenched in the haredi world about famous Jewish composer and singer, Shlomo Carlebach being expelled from the Lakewood Yeshiva, was shattered. After the supposed expulsion, Shlomo Carlebach is said to have then […]

Borough Park – A Deal was finalized on the Bobover Bais Hachaim located in the Washington Cemetery at 104 Deans Rhode Hall Road Monmouth New Jersey. Both Roshei Kehilas agreed on how the plots of the New Chelkas should peacefully be split up, both Admorim, Rabbi Benzion Halberstam and Rabbi Mordechai Duvid Unger signed the […]

Washington – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday of enacting “unjust and inhumane policies.” “The Netanyahu administration has been pursuing a lot of extraordinarily concerning policies,” she told reporters. “To conflate an individual leader or ego with being against the entire country I think is a hallmark behavior of […]