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By MARTY GREEN I know many Jews will be outraged at the very notion of comparing the two. “The pogroms!”,...
By ELENA KNIGHT Rosh Chodesh Sameach! Though last month’s article (Embracing your femininity in Tishrei) had far more holidays, thus...
US crypto regulation is back in focus after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission opened a public consultation on October 5...
By HENRY SREBRNIK The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights survey of 2024 found that 96 per cent of Jewish...
(Posted Oct. 15) Congratulations South African jurist Navi Pillay for winning the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. Not. The Norwegian Nobel...
Perya games often attract a crowd for a reason. Standing near a booth during a fiesta lets you track the...
(Ed. note: If you haven’t read Part 1 of “The Red Inheritance,” you can find it here: The Red Inheritance.)...
On a weekday afternoon in a community centre, the loudest table in the room is usually the Mah Jongg game,...
By Rachel Shteir September 22, 2026 This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s...
By BERNIE BELLAN In May 2023 I wrote a story about Joan Druxman, whom I had just met in person...
By DAVID TOPPER When my late wife, Sylvia, and I moved into the house I’m still in, we brought with...
By HENRY SREBRNIK As we enter the fourth year of the “October 7” wars, things in Eastern Europe remain dire. There...
By H.C. PiloskiPART I — ROOTSForewordThe Red Inheritance is a work of fiction built on real histories. The political movements,...
An NBA defender who meets a ball handler near the opposite baseline is trying to interfere with the possession before...
By PJ Grisar September 8, 2026 This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s...
Choosing a crypto wallet for gaming activities offers privacy and security often absent in traditional platforms. Transactions become seamless and...
By JOANNE PALMER (reprinted with permission from the New Jersey Jewish News and the Jewish Standard) If every person is...
A reader wrote in last month asking a simple question: is it legal to play online casino games in Manitoba,...
By ELENA KNIGHT Rosh Chodesh Sameach! This month, Tishrei, is a time of beginnings; we observe Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur,...
By DAVID TOPPER This story of the sad and short life of a remarkable woman, Clara Haber, should be better...
Antisemitic graffiti found at the Romemu Center, a synagogue in New York City. Source: Twitter A New York synagogue was defaced with antisemitic graffiti earlier this...
The Premature Baby Ward at Shaarei Tzedek hospital in Jerusalem, on Jan. 5, 2015. Photo: Hadas Parush/Flash90. 17,629 babies have been born in Israel since October...
An aerial view shows the bodies of victims of an attack following a mass infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip lying on the ground...
A local woman passes by a shop that displays an Israeli flag in the city of Tiberias, Israel, Nov. 8, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko A new...
Israeli singer Yair Levi in ‘God of Israel’ music video. Photo: Screenshot Israeli Yair Levi did not write his first song until the age of 28,...
Singer Chris Martin of rock band Coldplay performs at Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California, US, Sept. 30, 2023. Photo: Reuters Coldplay’s pro-Palestinian stance helped make...
KIBBUTZ NIR OZ, Israel (JTA) — Israel has begun making preparations for the care of traumatized hostages who are freed from Gaza, as the country reaches a...
A swastika graffitied in the basement of the University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design on Sept. 14, 2023. Photo taken by student. Over 500...
(New York Jewish Week) — New York Sen. Chuck Schumer made his Broadway debut on Tuesday night in the final scene of “Gutenberg! The Musical!” in...
Montreal’s Superior Court has ordered a temporary stay on the ratification of an anti-Israel policy voted on by students at McGill University this week. The order...
Manitoba’s newly elected NDP Premier Wab Kinew has announced that Holocaust education will be mandatory for students in the province. The announcement, made Nov. 21 in...
(New York Jewish Week) — Elected officials in New York City condemned Islamophobic comments by a Jewish former State Department staffer after videos showed him berating...
(JTA) — The star of a blockbuster horror franchise and an Oscar-winning veteran actress saw their careers take a hit this week over their public comments...
(New York Jewish Week) – On Oct. 7, Yonatan Pinto was stationed on the Gaza border near the Israeli communities of Nirim and Nir Oz. At...
(JTA) — In pressing for a deal that could see the release of 50 of the more than 200 hostages held in Gaza in return for...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Florida Rep. Lois Frankel, a Jewish Democrat, quit the party’s progressive caucus, one of the largest in Congress, as the Israel-Hamas war has...
Anti-Israel students protest at Columbia University in New York City. Photo: Reuters/Jeenah Moon The Jewish community at Columbia University in New York has remained resolute in...
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell at a Nov. 19 press conference in Doha, Qatar, alongside the emirate’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani. Photo:...
(JTA) — In a world divided over the Israel-Hamas war, Sheryl Sandberg — the former Meta COO and author of “Lean In,” the bestselling book about...
Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein in a trailer for “Maestro.” Photo: YouTube screenshot Actor and director Bradley Cooper spoke out for the first time on Tuesday...
(New York Jewish Week) — A man who attacked Joseph Borgen on his way to a pro-Israel rally in 2021 has been sentenced to seven years...
(JTA) — Like Jews around the world, I have spent the last days glued to my news sources, refreshing my screen every few minutes to find...
(JTA) – For the last five years, thousands of Jewish children in Illinois and their families have taken advantage of a state program that lets them...
Israeli soldiers inspect the entrance to what they say is a tunnel used by Hamas terrorists during a ground operation in a location given as Gaza,...
