1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (300+ words) Israeli President Isaac Herzog called on Jews around the world to enter the new year with pride, a commitment to action and respect for one another in a Rosh Hashanah message released on Thursday. “The defining sound of Rosh Hashanah…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (606+ words) When Columbia University begins a new academic year today, it will do so with a new leader: Dr. Jennifer Mnookin, only the second Jewish president in Columbia’s 272-year history. The appointment is notable. Columbia has been at the center of…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (157+ words) “The baker does not testify to the quality of his own dough,” our sages said. In other words, it is not fitting for a person to praise his own handiwork. In that spirit, I will only share the aspirations and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (608+ words) In 1897, more than 200 Jewish delegates from 17 countries (including five Americans) gathered in Basel, Switzerland, for three days—from Aug. 29 to Aug. 31—for an audacious purpose: to transform the ancient Jewish longing for Zion into an organized political movement. Convened by…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (503+ words) This month, the Jewish people lost another hero. Maj. (res.) Harel Birenstock, 34, a graduate of our Neveh Shmuel Yeshiva High School, fell in Lebanon in defense of Israel, leaving behind his wife and four children. Some of his children held…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (468+ words) OpenDor Media’s mission is ambitious by design: meet young Jews and their peers where they are, with educational media that deepens their understanding of Israel, Judaism and the Jewish experience—helping young Jews know and own their story and helping…...

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1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (763+ words) Start with the number: 51.9%. That is the percentage of faculty and institutional records in American Jewish, Israel, Hebrew and Holocaust studies programs that contain a documented, public anti-Israel signal. “Signal” does not mean a private opinion. It means a signature,…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (512+ words) I stand by that. But I left something out. This month, as Carnegie Mellon University investigated eight students over hateful messages painted on a campus wall and a university chancellor accused his peers of “hiding behind freedom of speech” to…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (317+ words) Birthright Israel has announced the launch of a major community healing project in Majdal Shams, Israel’s northernmost village, home to a Druze community that was once under Syrian control. The project is being carried out by the Birthright Israel Volunteer…...