Dutch King Unveils Holocaust Name Monument In Amsterdam
King Willem-Alexander officially unveiled a new memorial in the heart of Amsterdam’s historic Jewish Quarter on Sunday honoring more than 102,000 Dutch victims of...
Thomas Nides Confirmed As US Ambassador To Israel
The US Senate on Wednesday confirmed Thomas Nides by voice vote to be the next ambassador to Israel.
Nides, a secular Jew from Duluth, Minnesota,...
“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...
Mazal Tov! Chabad Rav Of UAE Rav Levi Duchman Is Engaged
Chabad Rav of the United Arab Emirates Rav Levi Duchman celebrated his engagement this week to Léa Hadad of Brussels.
The l'chaim took place on...
Australia Offers $1 Million For Info On Bombings Of Jewish Sites
Australia on Monday announced a $1 million reward for information on the 40-year-old unsolved cases of the bombings of two Jewish targets, The Guardian...
WATCH: Jewish Children Celebrate Purim In Modern-Day Persia
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...
Motzei Shabbos News Roundup From Israel
Israel's Health Ministry published the statistics of new Covid-19 cases from the weekend. More than 5,433 people tested positive for the virus and an...
U Of Penn Refuses To Reschedule Shavuos Commencement
The University of Pennsylvania announced it is not rescheduling its commencement ceremony, scheduled for one of the days of Shavuos, despite a petition requesting...
‘My Child Doesn’t Want To Be Jewish Anymore:’ Anti-Semitism In Holland
Dutch MP Roeloff Bisschop has demanded that the Dutch Education Ministry take urgent measures to fight anti-Semitism in school in the wake of the...
WATCH: Afghanistan’s Last Jew Is Staying Despite Taliban’s Abuse Of Him In The Past
As the world watched the searing images of the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan's capital Kabul, some people were concerned about the fate of...
Alta Fixsler’s Parents Lose Appeal To Have Her Die At Home
The parents of Alta Fixsler suffered another blow on Wednesday when they lost their battle to have Alta removed from life support in the...
BDE: One Of The Last Jews In Egypt Passes Away
Reb Yosef Ben-Gaon, z'l, the head of the tiny Jewish community in Alexandria, Egypt passed away recently at the age of 69, Kan News...
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...
Feds Investigate USC Student’s Complaint Of Anti-Semitism
The U.S. Department of Education will investigate the University of Southern California after a Jewish student claimed she resigned from student government because she...
Lebanese Chassan Case Comes To An End In Tel Aviv Beis Din
The case of the "Lebanese chassan" that shocked the Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn came to an end last week when Eliya Haliwa granted...
Berlin Police Investigate Roger Waters For Incitement Over Nazi Outfit
Police in Berlin said Friday that they have opened an investigation of Roger Waters on suspicion of incitement over a costume the Pink Floyd...
You Won’t Believe these crazy flavors of hamantaschen are real!
Nothing wrong with strawberry, chocolate, and poppyseed. Even pizza and sushi hamantaschen are so last year. But we’re just saying, there’s always room for...
Jew Missing In Miami Was In Town For COVID Funeral
When an old high school friend lost a long battle with COVID-19, Jay Kleiman went back for the funeral from Puerto Rico to the...
ADL Slams Republicans For Calling Facebook CEO “Zuckerbucks”
The Anti-Defamation League has called on Republicans and others to cease calling Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg "Zuckerbucks," JTA reported.
The term has been used since...
For 2nd Yr., No Minyanim On Rosh Hashana In Australia: What About Tekias Shofar?
The situation for Jews in Australia this Rosh Hashanah is unfortunately no different than last year, when minyanim were forbidden.
The cities of Melbourne and...
Van Gogh Seized From Rothschilds By Nazis To Be Auctioned For Expected $20 Million
A watercolor by Vincent van Gogh that was seized by the Nazis during World War II will be sold next month at auction in...
Antwerp: Major Victory For Chareidi Kehilla In Face Of Unusually High Cancer Rate
A Belgian court ruled this week that a gold processing factory located in the Chareidi neighborhood in the center of Antwerp must vacate the...
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...
French Jew Brutally Murdered By Muslim Is Buried In Israel [VIDEO]
Eyal Haddad, h’yd, a Jewish resident of France who was brutally murdered by a Muslim on August 20 was brought to kever Yisrael in...
In Private Meeting with Secretary Mike Pompeo Dirshu Takes Battle Against Antisemitism Against the...
By Chaim Gold
“There are those who advise us that Orthodox Jews should hide their Orthodoxy, they should not be so visible and ...
Gebrochts – an Overview
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...
WATCH: 16 Chassidim Detained For Over 10 Hours In Germany Without Charge
Sixteen Chassidim, including a group of five from New York en route to Vienna, were detained in the airport in Frankfurt on their way...
Profiles Of The Missing: Father Of 12-Yr.-Old “Tehillim Girl” & His Brother
Thousands of people were moved by the account of Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett of encountering a 12-year-old girl saying Tehillim by herself at the...
Chabad Shaliach In Tokyo Who Prepared For Thousands Is Disappointed
As Tokyo hosts a no-crowd Olympics in the shadow of the coronavirus, Rabbi Mendi Sudakevich is feeling disappointed, Ynet reported.
Rabbi Sudakevich, who has been...
AP’s Pidyon HaBen Photo Essay: “Jews Redeem Firstborn Son In Ancient Ceremony”
Shortly after sundown, Yaakov Tabersky presented his firstborn son on a silver platter to a Jewish priest in a ceremony harking back to the...
WATCH MOVING LEVAYA: “Jewish Bishop Of Yafo” Is Buried In Poland Next To Mass...
A tragic Holocaust story came to came to an end on Wednesday afternoon when a Jewish child Holocaust survivor who converted to Christianity was...
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...
Major German Art Show Opens Amid Antisemitism Controversy
Germany’s president has appealed to the organizers of this year’s documenta fifteen art show to do more to tackle the antisemitism allegations surrounding the...
NIGERIA: Hachnasas Sefer Torah L’Illui Nishmas HaRav Kanievsky, Z’tl,
The Chabad house in Abuja, Nigeria, led by Rabbi Israel and Haya Ozan, held an event celebrating its tenth anniversary, dedicating a new wing...
Historic Meeting of Leading Senior Mashgichim at Home of Rav Gershon Edelstein
Gedolim Urge the Daily Learning of Mussar in Dirshu’s Kinyan Chochma Program