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By GERRY POSNER Recently I was at a Shabbat service at Beth Tzedec Synagogue in Toronto and the day unfolded...
A sudden impact followed by the screech of tires fading into silence leaves a person in a state of shock...
By Olivia Haynie December 29, 2025 This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s...
Ang Pusoy, na kilala din bilang Chinese Poker, ay patuloy na sumisikat sa buong mundo, kumukuha ng interes ng mga...
Can men and women just be friends? Can you be in the revenge business too long? Why don’t you just...
By MARTIN ZEILIG Jazz history is usually told through its most iconic names — Armstrong, Ellington, Parker, Davis — yet...
By DAVID TOPPER The Jewish contribution to 20th century popular music is well known. From Jerome Kern through to Stephen...
By HENRY SREBRNIK “Globalize the Intifada” has been the chant echoing through streets since October 7th, 2023. It was never...
Canadians planning to travel in 2026 should keep an eye on shifting trends and learn what’s coming their way in...
The expansion of legalized sports betting worldwide has resulted in sportsbooks grappling with a problem that they can no longer...
Canada’s fan engagement with sports has been radically changed by the recent single-event legalized sports betting. In the past, this...
Online dating in Canada can be genuinely effective, but only if you approach it like a simple process instead of...
Smoke rises as protesters gather amid evolving anti-government unrest in Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran, released on Jan. 10, 2026, in this screen grab obtained from...
People walk past a billboard portraying the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar at the site of a rally held by protesters, mainly Houthi supporters, to show...
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping react as they hold a bilateral meeting at Gimhae International Airport, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific...
Israel’s representative to the Eurovision Song Contest, Yuval Raphael, a survivor of the deadly Oct. 7 2023, attack by Hamas on the Nova festival in Israel’s...
India’s prime minister, Shri Narendra Modi, addresses the gathering at the Indian Community Reception Event at the Singapore Expo in Singapore on November 24, 2015. On...
An aerial view of the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. The claim that Zionism is just a modern form of...
Syrian Kurds attend a protest in solidarity with the people in the neighborhood of Sheikh Maksoud and Ashrafiya, as the last Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)...
People hold the flag of Somaliland during the parade in Hargeisa, Somaliland, May 18, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri Three self-governing regions in Somalia that have close relations with the...
A Breads Bakery location in New York City. Photo: ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters Connect This weekend, a crowd wrapped around the corner of 63rd and...
(JTA) — As he leaves office after nearly 13 years, Jersey City’s Jewish mayor Steven Fulop is leaving his successor “guardrails” he hopes will help protect...
Tidbits is a Forverts feature of easy news briefs in Yiddish that you can listen to or read, or both! If you read the article and...
Rep. Dan Goldman, a two-term Democrat facing a tough primary in New York’s 10th District, has been endorsed again by J Street, but in an unusual...
Folklore scholar Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett doesn’t remember interviewing and recording the Yiddish folksinger Rose Cohen in 1968 in Toronto. But this recording may turn out to be...
A demonstrator lights a cigarette with fire from a burning picture of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei outside the Iranian embassy during a rally in...
Smoldered remains of the Beth Israel Congregation’s library. Photo: Screenshot. The suspect believed to have intentionally ignited a catastrophic fire which decimated the Beth Israel Congregation...
Stephen Spencer Pittman, who has been charged with setting fire to Mississippi’s oldest synagogue, recently launched a website promoting “scripture-backed fitness” and shared antisemitic content on...
