3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (540+ words) Thursday, September 10th | 28 Elul 5786 Spain’s Jewish community is turning to social media ahead of Rosh Hashanah to introduce the country’s wider public to Jewish culture, traditions, and religious practices, in an effort to foster greater understanding and counter a growing climate…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (742+ words) Thursday, September 10th | 28 Elul 5786 I have been posting self-defense videos online for years. Sometimes an Israeli flag is visible behind me. For a long time, the hostile comments were easy to recognize. People called me a Zionist or wrote “Free Palestine…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (334+ words) Thursday, September 10th | 28 Elul 5786 Rosh Hashanah is the most multifaceted of our festivals. The Torah itself doesn’t call it a New Year or Chag (festival). It is simply called Yom Hazikaron, the Day of Remembrance. But we’re not told who is…...

4+ day, 19+ min ago   (844+ words) Thursday, September 10th | 28 Elul 5786 You are far more likely to die from an Islamist terror attack in the foreseeable future than a war with China. That’s not to diminish the threat from Beijing, which poses the greatest long-term strategic challenge to…...

5+ day, 7+ min ago   (379+ words) Wednesday, September 9th | 27 Elul 5786 Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year of 5787, will be launched at a timeof severe social polarization – underscoring personal accountability and additional critical values: Rosh Hashanah initiates a wake-up call of 10 days of self-examination and repentance, which are…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (561+ words) Tuesday, September 8th | 26 Elul 5786 A coalition of Michigan rabbis and Jewish community leaders is circulating a petition outlining five “nonnegotiable” positions for Democratic candidates seeking their support, demanding respect for Zionism and acknowledgment of Israel’s legitimacy as a Jewish state in…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (281+ words) Tuesday, September 8th | 26 Elul 5786 I attend a secular private high school in the Bay Area of Northern California. When I was a sophomore, a swastika was drawn on the table where I always sat in US History class. I took pictures…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1007+ words) Friday, September 4th | 22 Elul 5786 Victor Lustig was born in 1890 in Arnau, today known as Hostinné, a small town in Bohemia. Later in life, he would introduce himself as a count whose dynasty had fallen on hard times – but this was total…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (367+ words) Thursday, September 3rd | 21 Elul 5786 The conflict between the Trump administration and higher education took another twist when a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit against Harvard. The judge found the administration had not proven its case that Harvard had permitted antisemitic incidents…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (348+ words) Wednesday, September 2nd | 20 Elul 5786 It was just reported that the California legislature passed a bill making it the first state to recognize Jewish identity as an ethnicity, as well as a religion. Proponents of the bill believe that the change will…...