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Abandoned Pennsylvania synagogue collapses
2+ hour, 15+ min ago (638+ words) An abandoned synagogue in Pennsylvania's coal region, which until the early 2000s had served Jewish residents of Mahanoy City for more than 80 years, collapsed late Thursday night, officials and neighbors told the local media. Emergency crews responded to reports of falling…...
Jewish strength and self-defense matters
8+ hour, 21+ min ago (778+ words) The most important minute of Jew-hatred-related TV this year delivered exactly the wrong point " both to Jews and to non-Jews. A decade after a near-nonstop rise in antisemitism across North America, the Blue Square Alliance ran an ad during the…...
The threat to religious slaughter across the Diaspora
9+ hour, 46+ min ago (661+ words) Over the past six months, media coverage referencing shechita, the Jewish religious and humane method of animal slaughter for food, has taken on a troubling and increasingly polarized tone across parts of the British press and political sphere. What is…...
The battle for Jewish identity will be decided in class
10+ hour, 37+ min ago (521+ words) In recent years, it sometimes seems as though the strength of Zionism is measured by the number of likes, trending hashtags, or viral confrontations on campuses. But history teaches us a simpler and deeper truth: Jewish identity has never been…...
Bat Mitzvah celebration honors fatherless girls & a promise
11+ hour, 56+ min ago (321+ words) On a Monday morning, in a banquet hall in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul neighborhood, numerous 12-year-old girls took the stage. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Gutnick Halls of Colel Chabad on Beit Hadfus Street, they celebrated their bat mitzvah, not just as…...
CAM calls charges against Mohels in Belgium a witch-hunt
14+ hour, 6+ min ago (288+ words) CAM calls charges against Mohels in Belgium a witch-hunt, designed to make Jewish life impossible'The Jerusalem Post The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) has slammed the criminal charges against three mohels, those who perform Jewish circumcisions, in Belgium Last May, police…...
Catholic opposition to Zionism resurfaces in US politics
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (482+ words) On January 25, 1904, the founder of the modern political movement of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, was received in the Vatican for an audience with Pope Pius X. Herzl, after disdaining to kneel before the pontiff and to kiss his hand, requested Vatican approval…...
High Court: Israel must explain funding of haredi schools
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (642+ words) The High Court of Justice on Tuesday ordered the state to explain why it continues to fully fund the two main party-affiliated haredi (ultra-Orthodox) education networks despite what petitioners describe as systemic noncompliance with basic academic requirements. By doing so,…...
High Court grills state, Jerusalem over egalitarian Kotel
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (699+ words) High Court grills state, Jerusalem over egalitarian Kotel'The Jerusalem Post The High Court of Justice on Tuesday held a long-delayed hearing over prayer arrangements at the Western Wall, with the justices openly pressing state officials and the Jerusalem Municipality over…...
How Jewish activism became performative, not constructive
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (771+ words) There is something quietly revealing about who goes silent when the moment passes. Not the silence of grief, exhaustion, or humility, but the silence that arrives when there is nothing left to promote'no campaign to amplify, no urgency to monetize,…...