Lakewood – Rabbi Shlomo Gissinger of Lakewood, NJ passed away today. Rabbi Gissinger was the Rav of Khal Zichron Yaakov, one of the largest congregations in Lakewood. Rabbi Gissinger was well known far beyond Lakewood, as a leader and Posek. He was involved in numerous organizations in the community. Rabbi Gissinger had fallen ill over […]

Sweden – The popular video blogger PewDiePie announced a donation of $50,000 to the Anti-Defamation League, then rescinded it a day later after fan feedback. PewDiePie, whose name is Felix Kjellberg of Sweden, made the announcement of the donation on Wednesday during an online celebration of surpassing 100 million subscribers, saying he wanted to get […]

Duluth – Firefighters managed to salvage Torah scrolls from a 120-year-old synagogue in Duluth, Minn., before an overnight fire on Monday that started in a storage room wound up destroying the building. Leaders of Adas Israel Congregation, Duluth’s oldest-surviving Modern Orthodox Jewish synagogue, guided firefighters as they removed artifacts from the basement of the synagogue, […]

Brooklyn – The Chassidic Satmar community in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., is tired of tourists treating them like “animals” in a zoo by flocking to their communities to take pictures of them, the New York Post reported. “People snap pictures of you like you’re on some sort of display—like you’re in a zoo. […]

Fargo – A Reform synagogue in Fargo, North Dakota, invited a Lutheran church there to share its worship space. The invitation from Temple Beth El came after St. Mark’s Lutheran church found itself without a regular home for the third time in six years, local news station KVRR reported. The arrangement began last month, but […]

Washington – Will Bernie Sanders be America’s first Jewish president? That’s up to Democratic primary voters and then the rest of the electorate should he receive his party’s nomination. But the Vermont senator’s choice of a virulent opponent of Israel and a close ally of some of the country’s leading anti-Semites as an official campaign […]

Brooklyn – Esther Gopin is fearful to go out in the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she’s lived her whole life. Many of her friends who feel the same decided to stay home for Labor Day, instead of going out to celebrate, and have recently bought pepper spray to protect themselves in the […]