admin | July 19, 2024
Considering the surge of Jew hatred in America today, two questions challenge the Jewish community: how did we get here, and where do we go next? No single answer suffices, but a recently published book Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew by Noa Tishby and Emmanuel Acho does an admirable job answering both questions
admin | July 19, 2024
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn on Tuesday unsealed a sweeping felony indictment against the 20-year-old they say is the head of a violent Eastern European skinhead gang implicated in a number of assaults and attacks abroad, some of them fatal.
admin | July 19, 2024
If the only history-making Jewish feat in baseball this week had been a historic grand slam, it would have been enough. But then a half-dozen Jewish ballplayers were picked in the MLB Draft eclipsing 2023s group of five. Jewish players still make up only a tiny fraction of those selected during the draft, held during the All-Star break this week in Arlington, Texas.
admin | July 19, 2024
US federal authorities have charged, and a grand jury has indicted, a foreign national with planning a mass casualty attack against Jews and other minorities in New York on New Years Eve. The United States Attorneys Office of the Eastern District of New York reported that a grand jury indicted Georgian national Michail Chkhikvishvili with soliciting hate crimes and acts of mass violence
admin | July 19, 2024
Thousands of Hasidic Jews packed into a New Jersey convention center on Wednesday for the annual Satmar Business Expo, an event that showcased entrepreneurship in a tight-knit community better known for its piety and insularity. The hundreds of booths at the expo represented businesses peddling financial consulting services, kosher wine and travel, vacuum cleaners, custom closets, masonry and welding. A company offering corporate food platters offered up crackers with fish spreads, while passersby peered into the windows of a black Tesla Cybertruck parked alongside the display of a utilities company.
admin | July 19, 2024
In recent decades, Haredi society in Israel has stood firm against the winds of change, resolutely defending its traditional way of life. However, in recent years, we are witnessing a surprising and fascinating phenomenon: it is the Hasidim, always perceived as the most conservative, who are leading a quiet but profound revolution at the heart of Haredi society
admin | July 19, 2024
In a unique account, Ben-Zion Zyserman-Gold, a Polish yeshiva bochur turned Conservative rabbi in America, describes his visit to the Frierdiker Rebbes Yud Beis Tammuz farbrengen 85 years ago in Otvotzk, Poland.
admin | July 19, 2024
"He is a Hasidic yeshiva student, strictly following all the rules of the Hasidic community. At first, we all thought it was a mistake, a student familiar with Stern said. Then we realized he was probably involved, but surely not trying to do anything wrong.
admin | July 19, 2024
What do the first two weeks of a Labour government tell us about howKeir Starmer intends to run Britain's foreign policy? Before the election, David Lammy, then shadow foreign secretary,laid out his vision of Britains role on the international stage
admin | July 19, 2024
Soccers global governing body, FIFA, said it had reached an agreement on Thursday with the federations representing Israelis and Palestinians that put off a decision on a potentially explosive dispute until after the Olympics. The dispute, prompted by a Palestinian bid to temporarily suspend Israel from the sport over its actions in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, spares FIFA from a ruling that could have led to Israels team being thrown out of the mens tournament at the Games less than a week before the competition is to begin
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