World News
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A Wider Bridge, a pro-Israel advocate in LGBTQ spaces, is shutting down
(JTA) — A Wider Bridge, a pro-Israel LGBTQ organization that became a flashpoint in debates over Israel, antisemitism and “pinkwashing” inside the American queer community, announced Friday that it will shut down at the end of the year. The San Francisco–based nonprofit said it will wind down operations as of Dec. 31, 2025, citing financial…
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Why aren’t we hearing about the dramatic growth of the Israeli stock market?
דאָס איז אַן איבערזעצונג פֿונעם ענגלישן אַרטיקל, וואָס איר קענט לייענען דאָ דעם פֿאַרגאַנגענעם שבת האָב איך געלייענט וועגן דעם אויסערגעוויינטלעכן וווּקס פֿון דער ישׂראלדיקער בערזע זינט דעם 7טן אָקטאָבער — היפּש בעסער ווי דער אויפֿשטײַג פֿון דער אַמעריקאַנער בערזע. די 35 ישׂראלדיקע אַקציעס מיטן גרעסטן ווערט זענען זינט דעם 7טן אָקטאָבער געוואַקסן מיט נישט…
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Federal attorneys leave Trump’s University of California antisemitism investigation en masse, alleging ‘sham’ process
(JTA) — Nine federal prosecutors, including at least one Jew, recently resigned from the Justice Department over what they described as the Trump administration’s “fraudulent” handling of its ongoing antisemitism investigation targeting the University of California system. Speaking to the Los Angeles Times last week, the attorneys described an “unserious” and “sham” investigation fueled primarily…
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Federal judge lets Hasidic abuse whistleblower’s civil-rights lawsuit against NYC move to trial
(New York Jewish Week) — A federal judge in Brooklyn has denied a bid by New York City and the estate of former Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes to throw out a civil-rights lawsuit brought by Hasidic sex-abuse whistleblower Sam Kellner, clearing the way for a jury to hear claims that top prosecutors helped engineer…
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Australian Teen Wounded While Shielding Children During Bondi Attack Says She Is Not a Hero
Bondi shooting survivor Chaya Dadon, 14, holds a pendant, in the shape of Israel, and a partial Star of David engraved on it, that she bought a few hours before the shooting in Sydney, Australia, Dec. 19, 2025. Photo: Reuters/Cordelia Hsu As two gunmen opened fire on hundreds celebrating Hanukkah on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, 14-year-old Chaya Dadon’s…
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In Pre-Recorded Message, Rob Reiner Encourages Holocaust Survivors to Be Resilient
Rob Reiner speaking in a pre-recorded message that was shared during the Claims Conference’s International Holocaust Survivors Night 2025. Photo: Screenshot Famed Jewish Hollywood director Rob Reiner encouraged Holocaust survivors to “be resilient” in a video he recorded before he was killed that was shown for the first time on Thursday as part of The…
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Nearly 18,000 Gather at Barclays Center for Menorah Lighting in Tribute to Sydney Hanukkah Attack Victims
Eli Drizin reciting the blessing for lighting the menorah at Barclays Center on Dec. 18, 2025. Photo: Provided Nearly 18,000 people gathered at Barclays Center in New York City on Thursday night for a menorah lighting that honored the 15 people murdered in Sunday’s terrorist attack at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney,…
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Gunman in Brown University Shooting Found Dead, Linked to MIT Killing
Investigators look at a grey Nissan car at a storage facility where the Brown University shooter, identified by authorities as Claudio Neves Valente, took his own life, in Salem, New Hampshire, US, Dec. 18, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/CJ Gunther The suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, with investigators certain he also killed a…
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Lebanon-Israel Truce Committee Talks Widen as Hezbollah Disarmament Deadline Nears
People inspect a damaged building, after Israeli military said on Sunday that it struck a militant from the Lebanese Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group, in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Nov. 23, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir The committee overseeing the Hezbollah–Israel truce in Lebanon focused on Friday on how to return displaced people to their homes, addressing civilian issues to help prevent renewed war…
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Parshat Miketz: How Outside the Box Thinking Can Lead to Salvation
A Torah scroll. Photo: RabbiSacks.org. “Experts are often wrong — but rarely in doubt.” On the evening of October 15, 1987, Michael Fish went on BBC television to do what he had done reliably for years: give the weather forecast. Before signing off, he added a few words of reassurance. Earlier that day, he told…
