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

The University of Pennsylvania announced it is not rescheduling its commencement ceremony, scheduled for one of the days of Shavuos, despite a petition requesting...

Libyan authorities have quietly made a decision to convert the ancient shul in the Old City of Tripoli into a modern library, according to...

The 13 Jews recently deported from Yemen as part of a deal with the Iran-backed Houthis, are currently in Egypt, Kan News reported on...

Archeologists in the UK digging at an excavation site of ancient shops overlapping Oxford's old Jewish quarter "were stunned" to uncover solid evidence that...

The last three Jewish families in Yemen were quietly deported from the country by the Iranian-supported Houthi rebels, leaving only five elderly Jews in...

Yaakov Weingarten, one of the leaders of the Lev Tahor cult who is suspected of kidnapping and child abuse, was arrested by Guatemalan security...

Italy was dubbed "the land of death" this past year and the Jewish community celebrated Pesach last year under a dark shadow of gloom....

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...

Sixteen Chassidim, including a group of five from New York en route to Vienna, were detained in the airport in Frankfurt on their way...

One of the last Iraqi Jews in Baghdad, a doctor who treated the poor free of charge, passed away at the age of 61,...

Brazilian federal police raided the Rio de Janeiro church on Friday of the pastor who led his congregation in praying for a second Holocaust...

John Joseph Brown, 88, died peacefully last week at his home in Queensbury on February 6, 2021. John was an army veteran and a...

Jewish groups in Switzerland joined Muslim groups in protesting a ban on face-coverings as an infringement on religious freedom after a referendum was passed...

The NBA has fined Meyers Leonard $50,000, the maximum allowed by league policy, and suspended him from using all Miami Heat facilities and activities...

A Singaporean man was arrested for plotting a stabbing spree of Jews outside a shul in Singapore's central business district, security officials said on...

A man with a knife tried to enter a kosher grocery store opposite a Jewish school in Marseille on Friday morning but was overpowered...

David Mintz, who was known for his invention of Tofutti, the first pareve ice cream substitute, as a solution for a dessert for fleishig...

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

Jodenkoeken, a dessert staple in the Netherlands since the 19th century, translates as "Jew cookies." It's not clear how the flat round shortbread cookies came...

A court in Warsaw ruled Tuesday that two prominent Holocaust researchers must apologize to a woman who claimed her deceased uncle had been slandered...

YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of HaRav Sheftel Neuberger, zt'l, Sheftel Meir ben Naftoli Halevi, Nasi of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel. Rav...

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...

Following a public outcry, Israel Railways has modified their ticket selling platform to allow for religious Jews to be able to purchase tickets in...

The Gerer Rebbe emerged after a month-and-a-half of not being able to see his followers due to the health restrictions in place in Israel,...

Another victim succumbed to the Flu in Israel on Wednesday binging the total number of deaths this week caused by the virus to 4....

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It is a toy, of sorts, or a device - that wives across America are purchasing for their husbands. ...

The deputy head of the Hamas terror organization told reporters that Hamas would be willing to discuss trading prisoners with Israel if Israel would...

Due to an unseasonal dry spell that is expected to blow over Israel this week, the Fire Department has issued a warning against any...

Following the slew of media reports regarding the cancellation of the Motty Steinmetz and Mordechai Ben David concert in Haifa and the recent fiasco...

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com In 1943, the MBA program at Harvard Business School was completely suspended.  The reason for this was the need...

A Ponevezh Yeshiva student has gone missing from Yeshiva and his parents' home for the last two weeks. There have been a number of...

A Charedi resident of London, was airlifted to the hospital in Scotland on Wednesday after he fell more than 40 feet off of Kincraig...

The Chairman of the Yesh Atid Party, Yair Lapid, joined protesters in the Kippah March on Wednesday afternoon in Berlin. Lapid had already been...

Milos Zeman, the President of the Czech Republic, has become the latest foreign leader to announce his intentions to move his country's embassy in...