A Brooklyn-based group trying to convince locals to boycott Israeli-made Dead Sea skin care products has managed to promote the region and boost the company’s business better than an ad campaign.
The motorcyclist’s body had just been carried away from the smoldering wreckage when a fight erupted a few yards away.
Israeli navy diverts Gaza-bound yacht carrying 10 European Jewish peace activists who were trying to break sea blockade.
Judges forbid separation between men, women in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim, allows women to march in haredi neighborhood in protest of discrimination.
Iranian president plans to speak at Second Lebanon War battle sites, makes time in Lebanon visit for stone-throwing.
Married Polish skinheads attend orthodox shul after researching Jewish ancestors. Polish Chief Rabbi: “Never write somebody off.”
With each passing day before Sukkot Jews the world over turn their faces toward the heavens, collectively wondering if the weather will hold for the seven-day festival. The holiday is a time for family, food and stargazing, but for many, it’s also a time for parkas, rain jackets, bee traps and outdoor air conditioners.
In advance of the weeklong Jewish festival of Sukkot, the Transportation and Security Administration reminded its airport screeners and the travelling public that Jewish travelers may carry the Four Species – a palm branch, myrtle twigs, willow branches, and a citron fruit known in Hebrew as an etrog – through security checkpoints and onboard planes.
For years, the Waldbaum’s supermarket in West Hartford has supplied the Jewish community with fresh kosher meats, deli products and baked goods.
The doorways inside 30 Ocean Parkway, an Art Deco building in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, are studded with mezuzas of all sizes and styles: plastic, pewter, simple, gaudy, elegant.
PHILADELPHIA, PA — On a recent summer day, Rabbi Shloime Isaacson received an urgent call: A 98-year-woman was having difficulty breathing.
This Erev Rosh Hashanah, tens of thousands of Jews globally were the proud recipients of a unique electronic Shana Tova Card created by acclaimed filmmaker, Michael Kigel. The card featured greetings and well wishes for the coming year from a diverse spectrum of over 30 Rabbis, politicians, public leaders and noted lecturers.
It’s getting less kosher to wave a chicken over your head to take away your sins.
A Brooklyn man said the ASPCA all but forced him to stop the controversial tradition at his feather-strewn business yesterday.
Shluchim all over the United States received an unmarked package in recent weeks containing missionary Hebrew New Testaments along with other missionary materials.
KYRGYZSTAN — Police in the Kyrgyz capital have opened an investigation into an attack on the city synagogue, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reports.
Hundreds of Jewish pilgrims clash with police after crowd surrounded two Ukrainian men allegedly caught stealing.
Tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews from around the world gathered in a small Ukrainian city Thursday to mark the Jewish New Year at the tomb of their spiritual leader – an apparent record for the annual all-male pilgrimage banned for decades by the Soviets.
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