A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard was convicted on Friday of being an accessory to the murder of 170,000 people, according to the judge presiding over what could be one of Germany’s last Holocaust trials.
At the beginning of his seventh decade of life, singer and composer Aharon Sitbon is releasing his first album as a Shomer Torah and Mitzvos.
Yossi Morad was skydiving in Florida earlier this month and tried to avoid a swamp full of alligators. He ended up surrounded by a room full of rabbis.
Yesterday, Thursday, June 9th a historic event took place at the University of California Los Angeles, one of the most prestigious universities in the United States. The school made special accommodations for 79 graduating students and provided an early departmental graduation in deference to their observance of Shabbos and Shavuos. Thanks to this accommodation, these students (and families and guests) were able to participate in graduation ceremonies.
Simche Friedman, a rising star in the world of Jewish music and a scion of the Friedman family singing dynasty, has teamed up with Israeli jazz artist Daniel Zamir to release a new upbeat single, coinciding with the ending of Sefirah.
After many years of delay, government officials in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad (which was formerly the German city of Konigsberg, annexed by Russia following WWII) approved the rebuilding of one of Europe’s most magnificent synagogues, which was destroyed on the eve of Kristalnacht in 1938.
Google has removed an app that allowed users to surreptitiously identify Jews online after a tech website brought the tool to widespread media attention and spurred a backlash.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued the first executive order in the country, signed on Sunday before he marched in Manhattan’s Israel Day Parade, forcing state entities to drop investments linked to the anti-Israel BDS (boycott, divest, sanction) movement.
A Lubavitcher Bochur returning from an afternoon of Mivtzoim was verbally attacked, threatened and harassed by attendees of the annual LGBT pride parade in Tel Aviv last Friday.
After many months of anticipation, Jewish music superstar Avraham Fried will be releasing his first new album in over four years today, Monday. Included in the album is the popular single Hineni B’yodcho, which was the subject of some controversy after a studio recording was leaked to the public without the singer’s permission.
Crown Heights community activist Yaacov Behrman marched alongside New York City Public Advocate Letitia James at the annual Israel Day Parade in Manhattan yesterday, Sunday.
A Chasidic school in Montreal that is allegedly operating without a Permit from the Quebec Education Ministry was raided today by the local version of Child Protective Services, accompanied by heavily-armed police. It is yet unclear whether any students have been taken into protective custody.
A patron at a kosher cafe in Amsterdam has been hospitalized after an apparently unprovoked stabbing.
Forbes magazine yesterday profiled a smartphone app, Smart Shabbos, which helps Jewish homes go high tech enabling the proper observance of Shabbos in utmost comfort. Forbes also profiled the app’s lead developer, born and raised Crown Heights native Rabbi Shmary Gurary.
The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill expanding the protection offered by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to include male circumcision and ritual animal slaughter.
Neturei Karta Leader Yisroel Dovid Weiss, accompanied by several acolytes, visited the terrorist-sponsoring state of Iran, where he was warmly greeted by government officials and hardline clerics. His message: the racist Israeli regime must be destroyed.
The first kosher restaurant in the city of Chernovtsy, Ukraine, opened its doors earlier this week, finally providing a place for those who keep kosher in the community to socialize and relax in a comfortable setting, all while having a tasty forshmak or other traditional and healthy treats.
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