4+ hour, 24+ min ago   (315+ words) Twelve torah scrolls were stolen on Sunday night from the Grand Synagogue of Levallois (ACCIL) on the outskirts of Paris, the synagogue's rabbi and the Jewish Community Protection Service (SPCJ) confirmed Monday. According to initial reports, two individuals broke into…...

1+ day, 49+ min ago   (529+ words) Born in Germany to a prosperous, politically progressive, secular Jewish family, Hannah Arendt was educated at the University of Marburg and received a PhD in philosophy from the University of Heidelberg in 1929. Briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo for her research…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1948+ words) Merging the everyday and the elevated, Leo Ray manages to capture the simplicity of everyday motifs - painting dogs, cats, birds, and people in slightly distorted images with classical art references. A known colorist, painter, graphic artist, and small-scale sculptor, he…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1427+ words) Dalia Gubbay had attended Milan’s April 25 Liberation Day march many times before. There had always been shouting when supporters of the Jewish Brigade reached the center of the city, she said, but the hostility had usually been confined to a…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (487+ words) DIASPORA AFFAIRS: "There is a danger of antisemitism becoming normalized" as anti-Zionism masks anti-Jewish hate, UK rabbi Yoni Birnbaum warns....

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (902+ words) Sally Reidman, founder and president of Reidman College of Complementary and Integrative Medicine, received the Sylvan Adams Nefesh B’Nefesh Bonei Zion Prize in 2023 for her achievements in education. How did her life lead up to this prestigious moment? Born in…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1257+ words) Ellen Monique Chits, a 56-year-old Dutch Christian whose grandfather and great-grandparents were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, spent the last two years seeking permanent residency in Israel after the Interior Ministry rejected her application. Her attorney argued that the…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1406+ words) Earlier this week, on Wednesday the eve of Tisha B’Av (the day of Jewish national mourning for the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temples and 2,000 subsequent years of exile from Israel), I ascended the Temple Mount, Har HaBayit. It was…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1192+ words) Every summer, for four days, the picturesque Gush Etzion community of Alon Shvut becomes Israel’s capital of Bible study, as thousands of Bible buffs converge to explore and expand their knowledge of the Bible at “Yemei Iyun B’Tanakh,” the Bible…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (837+ words) The altercation between Gur hassidim and the Israel Police on the night before Tisha B’Av was but one indication that the concept of Jewish unity is a myth handed down from generation to generation. Yes, there is unity within specific…...