JERUSALEM (JTA) — Recent assertions made by Rep. Rashida Tlaib regarding the Holocaust and the establishment of the State of Israel have no foundation in the historical record.In this imagined version of history, after the Holocaust, the Jews were awarded...
By Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt
• Published May 9, 2019
MOSCOW — Whether it’s a white supremacist targeting praying Jews, blacks or Muslims, or an Islamic radical committed to killing Christians on Easter Sunday, it has become very trendy to attack houses of worship.In Europe, synagogues unfortunately...
On our third day in New Orleans my teen group spent the morning volunteering at the Second Harvest Food Bank. That afternoon, we walked into a local grocery store in the Lower Ninth Ward where the group was greeted by the owner, Burnell. Over the...
Response to commentary In reference to the commentary (April 24) entitled “Why Republicans shouldn’t expect to win over Jewish vote,” from Rabbi Yonason Goldson:Rabbi Goldson posits that most Jews (and by most, he means liberal) will never vote...
Independence Day commemorates the establishment of Israel as an independent Jewish state. This inspirational declaration was announced on May 14, 1948 by the Jewish leadership, led by future Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. Israelis take great pride...
Chabad director thanks community for supportMy colleagues, the leaders of the four Chabad centers in the Greater St. Louis region, and I were profoundly touched by the outpouring of support and solidarity whih we received from all segments of the community,...
MOSCOW (JTA) — Whether it’s a white supremacist targeting praying Jews, blacks or Muslims, or an Islamic radical committed to killing Christians on Easter Sunday, it has become very trendy to attack houses of worship.In Europe, synagogues unfortunately...
BY DAVID SUISSA, Jewish Journal
• Published May 2, 2019
With anti-Semitism on the rise, the deadly shooting at the synagogue in Poway last Shabbat had a tragic familiarity. Here we go again: Six months ago we had Pittsburgh, now it’s Poway. What’s next?It’s even worse in Europe, and especially in France,...
TEL AVIV (JTA) – One evening as a child in Petach Tikvah, I was in my room listening to the Iraqi Jewish singer Salima Mourad when a siren pierced the air. I rose from my bed and stood in silence.The siren marked the start of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust...
Janice Weinman and Ellen Hershkin
• Published April 30, 2019
(JTA) — On the Shabbat morning of April 27, Hadassah member Lori Gilbert-Kaye was murdered while celebrating Passover at the Chabad of Poway. The synagogue’s rabbi, a male congregant and an 8-year-old girl were wounded as well by the self-avowed...
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
• Published April 28, 2019
(JTA) — Here’s what we know about the shooter who took the life of a worshiper at a San-Diego area Chabad and wounded three others: He was a white, 19-year-old college student who grew up in an Orthodox Presbyterian church and he may or may not have...
By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
• Published April 25, 2019
According to The New York Times, the re-election of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has left Palestinian families seeing “no light at the end of the tunnel.”A feature published on the front page of Monday’s Times focuses on the despair...
