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Several Jewish groups, politicians and an alliance of civil society groups gathered for a memorial ceremony and a protest rally against a concert by...

Police in Berlin said Friday that they have opened an investigation of Roger Waters on suspicion of incitement over a costume the Pink Floyd...

A Jewish middle school teacher in Wisconsin was arrested for making terrorist threats toward students who drew swastikas on a paper in his classroom,...

HaRav Mendy Chitrik, the Rav of the Ashkenazi Jewish kehilla in Turkey and the chairman of the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States, visited...

Yossi Barda, an Israeli singer who performed in the El Ghriba shul in Djerba a few minutes before the shooting attack which killed cousins...

A 17-year-old Jewish teenager with autism who wears a yarmulke returned from his Las Vegas public school with a swastika carved on his back...

The 22nd annual Anti-Semitism Worldwide Report by the Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry in Tel Aviv University, published in collaboration with...

By Chaim Gold “I did not know what learning just a half hour of Mishnah Berurah could do to my life! At the beginning of...

(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times) Everyone grew up with it.  It signifies the end of the Pesach Seder. And every...

Mala, a Burmese worker in the Chabad house in Bangkok, Thailand, recently sang Vehi Sheamda together with dozens of Chabad bochurim. The amusing video was...

Jewish Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested on Thursday morning and charged with espionage by the Federal Security Bureau (FSB), the successor...

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com There is a minhag in many families of Klal Yisroel to avoid eating gebrochts. And yet, the Shulchan Aruch (OC...

Gedolim Urge the Daily Learning of Mussar in Dirshu’s Kinyan Chochma Program

Chaim Topol, z'l, a leading Israeli actor who charmed generations of theatergoers and movie-watchers with his portrayal of Tevye, the long-suffering and charismatic milkman...

Chief Rabbi of Tehran Rav Yehudah Gerami organized a festive Purim party for dozens of Jewish children. During the party, Rav Gerami asked the children...

Jews throughout the world celebrated Purim on Monday evening, including the Jews in modern-day Persia, otherwise known as the Islamic Republic. Like every year, Chief...

Jews from the Jewish kehilla in Djerba, Tunisia on Monday, Taanis Esther, carried out its minhag of hanging an effigy of Haman and his...

A terrible tragedy occurred when a fire broke out overnight Wednesday in a home in Monroe, near Kiryas Yoel. The Monroe Joint Fire District and...

Jordanian security inspection officials cut off the leather straps of a Rav's tefillin at the Queen Alia International Airport in Amman on Monday. HaRav Moshe...

Moses Elisaf, z'l, the first Jewish mayor in Greek history, passed away on Friday at the age of 68 after a brief bout with...

A van with 12 Lubavitch yeshivah bochurim overturned into a deep ditch on Monday night and one bochur was seriously injured. The bochurim, from Yeshivas...

By Chaim Gold “There are those who advise us that Orthodox Jews should hide their Orthodoxy, they should not be so visible and ...

Israel's Home Front Command soldiers, along with volunteers from ZAKA, United Hatzalah, and other organizations, have succeeded in rescuing 18 survivors from the rubble...

At the end of intensive search efforts, the bodies of the president of the Jewish kehilla in Antakya, Turkey and his wife, Saul, z'l,...

The Rav of the Ashkenazi kehilla in Istanbul, Rav Mendy Chitrik, told Kan News about what he witnessed in Antakya, a city in southern...

Chief Rabbi of Tehran Rav Yehudah Gerami and other religious figures in the Islamic Republic met on Monday with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. The meeting...

Rav Mendy Chitrik, Chabad shliach and Rav of the Ashkenazi kehilla in Istanbul, traveled on Monday to Antakya (historically known as Antioch), the city...

The president of the Jewish kehilla in Antakya (historically known as Antioch) in southern Turkey, which suffered the greatest destruction from the earthquake,  was...

Hungarian Religious Affairs Minister Miklosh Schultz, his deputy minister, and Rav Shlomo Kobush, the Chief Rabbi of the Union of Jewish Communities in Hungary,...

The Israel-based Chabad World Assistance (CWA) organization and the security department of the Mercaz L'Inyanei Chinuch issued a rare message to Chabad shluchim around...

By Chaim Gold “In our city of Antwerp, we have morei horaah and poskim who have completed the Dirshu Kinyan Halacha program, both the first...

A Swedish-Egyptian author requested approval from the police to set fire to a Sefer Torah in a demonstration in front of the Israeli embassy...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday compared the American support of Ukraine in its battle against Russia to Hitler's quest to wipe out...

Prince Harry wrote in his memoir Spare about his admonishment from former Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, z'l, after he wore a Nazi uniform to...