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American journalist Danny Fenster, who was freed after nearly six months in jail in military-ruled Myanmar, arrived Tuesday in the United States for an...

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

A Jewish applicant to a teacher training scholarship in the UK was quite surprised when he was told that a Jewish woman who was...

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...

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

A science professor at a university in central Michigan who claimed sinister forces were targeting him and breaking into his home has been fired...

Families around the world remained stuck between waning hopes and widening fears Saturday, two days after the stunning collapse of a 12-story condominium near...

Estelle Hedaya was the outspoken life of the party who loved travel and fashion. She lived on the sixth floor and quickly connected with...

Rabbi Moshe Margaretten, the head of the non-profit Tzedek Association, is still hard at work carrying out rescue operations in Afghanistan, together with Israeli-American...

The Polish witnesses of the German crime in Wojslawice lived for decades with the memories of their Jewish neighbors executed in 1942. They remembered...

Andrzej Sitkowski was 15 years old when his mother told him that she had been asked by a neighbor to hide a little Jewish...

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

Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, told Israel's Kan News that "Russia will deliberately fire missiles at Uman on Rosh Hashanah." In...

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,...

“There is nothing more important that we can do before the Yamim Noraim than to try fixing and rectifying our klei hadibbur, our mouths...

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com The year was 1984, and the place was Beis Midrash Gavoah in Lakewood, New Jersey.  A special day of...

Iceland has recognized Judaism as an official state religion, a first in its history, Chabad.org reported. The recognition followed a year-long process, during which Iceland's...

Surfside survivor Steve Rosenthal was asleep that night when he was suddenly jarred awake by "the loudest thunder I've ever heard - times 100,"...

The three Israelis who were arrested three weeks ago by Nigerian authorities for alleged contact with Biafran separatists were released from prison and are...

In a rare interview with the Israeli magazine Katifa, Rebbetzin Tziporah Gerami, the wife of the Chief Rabbi of Tehran, Rav Yehudah Gerami, spoke...

Aaron Feuerstein, who owned a textile mill in Massachusetts and famously continued to pay his workers even after a devastating fire, has died. He...

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...

An Indonesian art collective’s banner that was widely criticized as containing antisemitic elements was covered up at a major art show in Germany and...

Vladislav Shein, z'l, a 21-year-old member of the Jewish kehilla in Dnipro, Ukraine was killed last month at the war front. "The Federation of Jewish...

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...

Israel's Health Ministry issued its daily report regarding Coronavirus statistics in the country. According to the report on Motzei Shabbos, 272 people died of...

After two members of the Jewish community in Derba were violently attacked in recent days and security officials reacted with indifference, international pressure eventually...

Khaled Awad, who stabbed Rabbi Shlomo Noginski eight times last week, had a Jewish roommate in college who was forced to take out a...

Posters went up in the more Chareidi sections of Beit Shemesh accusing United Hatzalah of transgressing the prohibition of yichud by training female EMTs...

After a lengthy and protracted lockdown in Australia with no tefilla b'tzibur permitted, which included the Yamim Noraim, shuls are finally officially permitted to...

Two rulings from the US Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit last week support the efforts of Chabad to recover seforim and...

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...

A Maryland auction house has sold a wristwatch that once belonged to Adolf Hitler for $1.1 million. Alexander Historical Auctions in Chesapeake City had estimated...

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...

Matthias Weniger put on a pair of white cloth gloves and carefully lifted a tarnished silver candleholder, looking for a yellowed sticker on the...