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Parshas Acharei Mos–Kedoshim–The Path to Spirituality

Many people will tell you that while they may not be observant, they are spiritual. What exactly does that connote? Does it mean meditating?...

Victim of Poway Shooting Buried; NYT Reaches New Low for Running Anti-Semitic Cartoon   

A public funeral was held on Monday for Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, the woman who was shot and killed while attending a Passover service at...

World Jewish Congress delegation arrives in San Diego to mourn with local community: “We are one global community and we must protect each other”

A World Jewish Congress delegation comprising senior professionals and members of the WJC Jewish Diplomatic Corps arrived in San Diego on Monday to stand...

NYU Student Claims Campus is Gripped with Severe Anti-Semitism

NYU has permitted what a complaint filed last week with the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights calls “extreme anti-Semitism” to grow...

Over 500 Demonstrators Take NY Times to Task for Vehemently Anti-Semitic Cartoon

By: Helen Freedman Over 500 people gathered in front of the NY Times building on 8th Avenue @ 40th St. in...

California Synagogue Shooting Victim, Lori Gilbert-Kaye Remembered as “Loving, Caring Woman” at Funeral

On Monday afternoon, Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, the woman shot and killed while attending Passover services at Chabad of Poway, was laid to rest amongst...

Agudath Israel of America Statement on San Diego Attack

Once again, a Jewish house of worship was the scene of hate-fueled bloodshed, when a man, reportedly a white supremacist, attacked those gathered for...

After Being Shot, Chabad Rabbi Comforts Poway Congregation & the Country

Perhaps the greatest lesson to take from Saturday’s grisly shooting at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue near San Diego is how ordinary Jews’ love...

Passover in Hell – Hiding from the Nazis in the Krakow Ghetto

My grandfather’s Passover Seder A raging fire burned through Europe through the years 1939 – 1945, destroying European Jewry. Mendel and Moshe Brachfeld – my...

The 1929 Struggle to Send Matzah into the Soviet Union

Marking 90 years since Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn’s international campaign It was the end of 1928, and food shortages were once again starting to hit...

WJC Slams Beating of “Judas” Effigy in Poland on Good Friday

The huge effigy was said to represent the Jewish biblical character of Judas Iscariot Edited by: JV Staff The World Jewish Congress (WJC) on Sunday slammed...

First Time Since Holocaust:  A Passover Seder in the Warsaw Ghetto

76 years ago, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising broke out on April 19, 1943, the eve of the Jewish festival of Passover.  German troops stormed...

Short and Deep Insights for Seder Night

We all want good and thoughtful ideas to share at the Seder. This collection of short and deep insights for the Seder are organized...

Statement from Agudath Israel of America on the Measles Outbreak and “Infectious Hatred”

Agudath Israel of America is deeply concerned about the recent outbreak of measles and the threat it poses to communities around the country. For that...

Rabbinical Alliance of America Recognition of Gay Marriage – Prohibited

The Rabbinical Alliance of America – Igud HaRabonim, representing nearly one thousand Orthodox rabbis serving throughout the United States – emphatically censures any attempts...

Passover: Making it Personal

How can we identify with the Jewish slaves today? “In every generation each individual is bound to regard himself as if he had gone personally...

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