Last year saw a decrease in total number of incidents expressing anti-Jewish hatred reported to watchdog, yet the Pittsburgh shooting was single deadliest attack on American Jewry
Washington – U.S. President Donald Trump, three of his children and one of his companies filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Deutsche Bank and Capital One Financial Corp to block the banks from complying with federal subpoenas investigating his financial dealings. The federal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court’s Southern District of New York, [...]
The following is via the New York Times: By Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein
Today should have been my funeral.
I was preparing to give my sermon Shabbat morning, Saturday, which was also the last day of Passover, the festival of our freedom, when I heard a loud bang in the lobby of my synagogue.
Despite apologizing on Sunday for running an anti-Semitic cartoon that ran in its international edition on Thursday, The New York Times published another anti-Semitic cartoon in the same edition over the weekend.
The weekend cartoon by Norwegian cartoonist Roar Hagen depicts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with sinister eyes taking a picture of himself with a selfie-stick, carrying in what appears to be an empty desert a tablet featuring the Israeli flag painted on it.
Nearly 1 in 4 Israelis live in development towns and southern cities. The left simply doesn't speak their language, say experts and locals -- one reason it keeps losing elections
(PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE)
On 13 April 1944, sisters Susan-Zsuzsa and Lili Klein wrote their father Hugo a short letter: “Dear Daddy, We are well – goodbye.” Hugo had been drafted into a forced labor battalion in 1943; his wife Matild had stayed with their two daughters in their hometown of Hencida in the Bihar district of Hungary.
In an op-ed in the New York Times today, Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein vowed to “never back down” in the face of hate and to use his “borrowed time” to promote freedom and liberty.
“I do not know why God spared my life,” Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who was injured after a gunman opened fire at the Chabad of Poway on Saturday, wrote in an op-ed for The New York Times published Monday.
“I do not know why I had to witness scenes of a pogrom in San Diego County like the ones my grandparents experienced in Poland,” he continued. “I do not know God’s plan. All I can do is try to find meaning in what has happened. And to use this borrowed time to make my life matter more.”
Hélène Le Gal summoned to Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem over statement by Paris's outgoing Washington ambassador; Gérard Araud says he was referring to the West Bank only
On Monday, April 15, shortly before Pesach, Project LEARN, Agudath Israel’s special education division, hosted a meeting of New York City special education yeshivos with Howard Friedman, General Counsel of the city’s Department of Education, and the leadership of the DOE Special Education Unit.
The phenomenon of illegal Palestinian construction in Yehuda and Shomron continues to gain momentum, including cutting roads, construction of agricultural roads, and the construction of new structures.
In speech delivered at a UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East on Monday, Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon defended the Jewish state’s territorial claims, citing history, the Bible, international law and global security interests.
“Refusing to acknowledge the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in the Land of Israel keeps us from forging peace in the future,” Danon said.
“Palestinian rejectionism is chronic,” the Israeli diplomat charged. “There should be no reward for rejectionism. There should be no prize for aggression.”
Only 534 Brits moved to Jewish state last year, compared to 770 in 2015; Jewish Agency official says immigration is 'practically never motivated by one single push or pull factor'
Betar Illit Mayor Meir Rubinstein sent a letter to chareidi representatives involved in coalition negotiations towards forming the next coalition government. Rubinstein cites that the chareidi housing shortage has reached a critical stage and land between Betar and Tzur Hadassah must be allocated towards the construction of an additional 10,000 apartments.
Outgoing Minister of Agriculture Uri Ariel, the former head of the Ichud Leumi faction, recently announced his decision to step down and retire from politics.
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