A week after Amazon banned the sale of Confederate flags following a deadly shooting, Jewish organizations, including Sacramento Shliach Rabbi Mendy Cohen, are calling on Amazon to ban books denying the Holocaust.
Nicholas Winton, a Briton who said nothing for a half-century about his role in organizing the escape of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, died on Wednesday in Maidenhead, England. He was 106.
A song dedicated to the children and staff of The Special Children Center of New Jersey by its founder’s husband, Jewish music star Yaakov Shwekey. The video was created by Mendy Pellin.
The world’s Jewish population has grown to be nearly as large as it was before the Holocaust, an Israeli think tank said in its annual report Sunday.
A group of 12 boys from Cleveland were headed to the Catskills, reportedly to Camp Kaylie. Around two hours after leaving Cleveland they smelled gas in the vehicle.
Yesterday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York State legislative leaders announced a framework agreement that will allocate an unprecedented $250 million of new funding to the state’s non-public schools for mandated services—the largest amount ever allocated to this program.
It was a bittersweet event, filled with the conflicting emotions that come with extreme sadness mingled with joy. You could sense the powerful feelings, blending in the air along with the fuzzy white confetti drifting down from the cottonwood trees above.
Jews are responsible for the ‘Euromaidan’ revolution that ousted Ukraine’s pro-Russian president last year, a senior rebel leader told an audience at a Russian university. Speaking to the Jerusalem Post, Chabad rabbis in both Russia and Ukraine denounced the venomous anti-Semitic statement.
Several dozen prominent Mohalim from various Jewish communities in the New York City area gathered at the Ateres Golda Ballroom in Boro Park this past Sunday for a seminar on the safety and legality of Bris Milah and Metzitza B’peh.
When a Montreal Jew working in a large company decided to approach his boss and ask for an accommodation in order to start keeping Shabbos, he received a pleasant surprise.
Islington Council and Chabad-Lubavitch of Islington marked the unveiling last week of the “Islington People’s Plaque” on the site of the former North London Synagogue on Lofting Road, which was built in 1868 and demolished in 1958. But the day wound up just as focused on the future as it did on the past.
British police say they are examining a video posted on YouTube by a group called National Action, which shows several fascists vandalizing a Menorah set up by Chabad in Cannon Hill Park in the city of Birmingham, UK.
An Israeli woman recently entered a synagogue in the city of Elad claiming she is possessed by a ‘Dibbuk.’ A ‘Kabbalist’ who took up the task of extracting the ‘Dibbuk’ claims that he has communicated with the spirit, which purportedly identified itself as the soul of a man who committed a murder 70 years ago.
A rabbinical court in Israel granted 100,000 shekels to Haifa resident who refused a Gett for 14 years.
The southeastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol has been on edge for more than a year now, with the thud of Grad rockets falling in the distance a part of daily life.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of a federal statute Monday that allowed Americans born in Jerusalem to record in their passport “Israel” as the place of birth.
Rav Chaim Kanievsky, a Lithuanian Gadol considered by many to be the leading Posek in the Orthodox-Jewish world, recently wrote a Halachic response in which he asserted that the branches of the Menorah in the Beis Hamikdash were not round – a point famously iterated by the Lubavitcher Rebbe several decades ago.
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