Report: Jewish Russian Community Is Falling Apart

“The Jewish community in Russia as we knew it at the beginning of 2022 will never be the same,” one of the leaders of...

Now In Spotlight, Dubai Jews Struggle For Public Synagogue

Every Saturday, in secluded beach villas, hotel banquet halls and luxury apartment towers across Dubai, Jews arrive to worship at some of the world’s...

Lufthansa CEO Apologizes To Berlin Rav, Suspends Employees

Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr apologized to the Rav of Berlin Rabbi Yehudah Teichtal for the anti-Semitic incident last week in which all visibly Jewish...

An Open Letter from Florida Rabbi Mark Rosenberg — Where Have the Brave Soldiers...

Rabbi Teller was once traveling with 16 of his 18 offspring.   While changing planes in Frankfurt, Teller noticed a woman gasping. “Are all of...

Why Did Chassidim Daven At The Titanic Victim’s Kever?

A group of chassidic tourists from Israel was astounded when they visited a beis kevaros in the Netherlands on Friday and discovered the kever...

Chareidi Injured In Mariupol: “They Tried To Remove The Shrapnel – Without Anesthesia”

The daring rescue operations carried out by Chabad shlichim to evacuate Jews from the besieged city of Mariupol, which the Russians almost completely destroyed...

New Design, Mission Unveiled For Site Of Tree Of Life Attack

The caretakers of the Tree of Life synagogue intend to transform the site of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history and expand its...

All Roads Lead To Krestir: No Available Rental Cars Left In Budapest As Thousands...

Jews began flocking to the kever of Reb Shayele in Krestiner, Hungary on the yahrtzeit seven years ago but this year's yahrtzeit on Tuesday...

Holocaust Survivor Who Helped Found Dallas Museum Dies At 94

Max Glauben, a Holocaust survivor who tirelessly shared his story and was among the founders of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, died...

Foreign Ministry Urges Israeli In Transnistria To Leave Immediately

In the wake of a series of explosions last week in Transnistria, a small, Russian separatist region of Moldova on the Ukrainian border, Israel's Foreign...

WATCH: Ukrainian Anti-Semite Starts Up With The Wrong Chassid

A Ukrainian refugee in Antwerp began accosting Chassidim on Friday night, shouting aggressive anti-Semitic comments at them. One chassid, who is a Shomrim volunteer, decided...

Israel Halts For Holocaust Day, Honors 6 Million Jews Killed

Sirens blared across Israel early Thursday as the country came to a standstill in an annual ritual honoring the 6 million Jews murdered during...

Fear Among 5,000 Jews In Transnistria: “We’re Next In Line”

In the wake of a series of explosions in past days in the breakaway Russian separatist region of Transnistria, which is officially part of...

Antisemitism Surged To Record High In 2021

A Jewish civil rights organization’s annual tally of antisemitic incidents in the U.S. reached a record high last year, with a surge that coincided...

Sanctions On Russian Oligarch Donors Hit Israel Institutions

Billionaire Moshe Kantor has severed his longstanding ties to Tel Aviv University — joining a growing list of Russian Jewish oligarchs who have scaled...

A Meaty Issue Unites Jews And Muslims In France’s Election

As she cooks lunch and talks politics, Sarah Gutmann has a nasty feeling — of would-be French president Marine Le Pen invading the privacy...

For Jews Fleeing Ukraine, Pesach Takes On New Meaning

“Good morning! Happy morning!” Rabbi Avraham Wolff exclaimed, with a big smile, as he walked into the Chabad synagogue in Odesa on a recent...

Mazel Tov! 1st Jewish Wedding Since War Began Takes Place In Ukraine

A Jewish wedding took place in Ukraine on Monday night, the 40th day of the war, in the first such simcha since the war...

Ukrainian Refugee Enters The Bris Of Avraham Avinu At Age 31

Costa, a 31-year-old resident of Kharkiv, was one of the 15,000 Jews who fled to Kishinev, Moldova following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Costa is...

Rav Lazar: “It’s Incomprehensible, A Nightmare, It’s Never Been So Difficult Here”

Rav Berel Lazar, the Chief Rabbi of Russia, spoke about the difficult situation in Ukraine and Russia in an interview with Yisrael Hayom that...

TORAH AMID WAR: Hachnasas Sefer Torah Celebrated In Zelensky’s Birthplace

Even a raging war can't extinguish the flame of Torah. In Kryvyi Rih (Krivoy Rog in Russian), a city in the Dnepropetrovsk region of...

Kyiv Rav: “Daven For Us, Russia To Try Conquering The City On Purim”

The Rav of Kyiv, HaRav Moshe Azman, spoke with Kol Chai on Wednesday morning, Erev Purim. "I'm the Beis HaKnesses HaGadol of Kyiv," he said....

BDE: Ukrainian Jew From Kharkiv Killed In Battle

Serafim Sabaranskiy, z'l, a Jewish Ukrainian, was killed in action on Sunday when a Russian missile landed near his position, JTA reported. Sabaranskiy, 29, was...

Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin Is Now A Site For Jewish Refugees

Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin, established in 1939 by HaGaon HaRav Meir Shapiro, is now housing Ukrainian Jewish refugees, The Jerusalem Post reported. “We have about 190...

Holocaust Survivor Who Hid In Heart Of Berlin Dies At Age 99

Inge Deutschkron, a Holocaust survivor who hid in Berlin during the Third Reich to escape deportation to Nazi death camps and later wrote an...

WATCH: HaRav Lau Visits Moldovan Shul Transformed Into Refugee Center

At the invitation of HaRav Pinchas Saltzman, Chief Rabbi of Israel HaRav Lau on Wednesday flew to Moldova, where hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian...

Hope Amid Pain: Jewish Toddler Enters Bris Of Avraham Avinu In Moldova

Amid the pain and suffering of Ukrainian Jews fleeing from the war front came a moving story on Tuesday that symbolized the continuation of...

“How Do I Become Jewish?” Ukrainian Refugee Jokes

Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees have been standing in lines in the freezing cold at Moldovan border crossings in recent days, with about...

German President Spends Time With Jewish Orphans From Ukraine

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier made a special visit on Monday to the Jewish center in Berlin, where 120 Jewish orphans from Odessa arrived on...

With A 2-Week-Old Baby: Jewish Family Rescued From Ukraine

As war continues to rage across Ukraine, more and more people are fleeing the country amid Russian missiles hitting residential areas. One of the families...

WATCH: Moving Havdalah With Jewish Refugees From Odessa

Chief Rabbi of Odessa HaRav Avraham Wolf and his wife Chaya spent Shabbos in Moldova with 140 women and children who fled Odessa on...

WATCH: Palestinians From Jenin Find Shelter In Ukraine At Chabad

bDr. Yaqoub Abu El-Rob, a Palestinian doctor fleeing Ukraine, and his family found refuge with Chabad in Anatevka, a village west of Kyiv, where...

Roman Abramovich To Sell Chelsea, Donate Proceeds To Ukraine Victims

Russian-Israeli oligarch Roman Abramovich announced on Wednesday that he is selling the Chelsea Football Club and will be donating the sale proceeds to victims...

Germany To Give $720 Million To Holocaust Survivors Globally

The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis said Wednesday that Germany has agreed to extend another $720...

ASTOUNDING: Russian Generals Travel To Remote Village To Pray At Jewish Kevarim

In a surreal scene, 15 Russian decorated former top army officers and military personnel traveled this week to the village of Lubavitch - in...

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