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Minyan Everest climbers with their Torah scroll atop Mera Peak in northeastern Nepal, May 6, 2025. Credit: Minyan Everest.

A Torah on top of the world — why these Jewish climbers took their faith to new heights

Amelie Botbol, JNSPublished May 19, 2025

“We all do what we can. Some fight, others donate. We felt powerless, and we wanted to show the Israeli people that we haven’t forgotten them—or the 1,200 people murdered on Oct. 7. They are in our hearts,” said Charlie Taieb, creator of Minyan...

100 and going strong: Jewish centenarian veterans share their WWII memories — one last time

100 and going strong: Jewish centenarian veterans share their WWII memories — one last time

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished May 19, 2025

Imagine living through one of the most pivotal conflicts in modern history — and making it to 100-years-old to tell the tale. That’s exactly what three Jewish Centenarian World War II veterans will do on Tuesday, May 20, at Washington, D.C.’s Arena...

A humanitarian aid truck moves at the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom Crossing Point on May 19, 2025 in Southern Israel. (Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Netanyahu says he has ordered ‘basic’ Gaza aid amid widened offensive and starvation concerns

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished May 19, 2025

(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he has ordered aid to enter Gaza, days after President Donald Trump joined the ranks of those saying that Gazans were starving under a months-long Israeli blockade. Israel had halted the entry...

PREMA Racing driver Robert Shwartzman (83) celebrates winning pole position Sunday, May 18, 2025, during Fast Six qualifying for the 109th running of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Jewish driver Robert Shwartzman makes Indy 500 history with pole win

By Louis Keene, The ForwardPublished May 18, 2025

Robert Shwartzman had already made Israeli history when he started his engine for time trials at the Indy 500. Four laps later, he made race history, too. Shwartzman, the first Israeli driver to compete at the hallowed race grounds, won its preliminary...

St. Louis is invited to meet 'the art spy' who saved Europe’s stolen masterpieces

St. Louis is invited to meet ‘the art spy’ who saved Europe’s stolen masterpieces

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished May 18, 2025

You might not know her name, but Rose Valland helped save part of the soul of Europe. And she did it while the world’s most ruthless art thieves—Nazis in their knee-high boots and pressed gray coats—stormed through Paris, stealing and crating up...

Dan Senor delivers "The Sate of World Jewry" speech at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, May 13, 2025. (Mark Doyle/Michael Priest Photography)

Two writers offer strikingly different views of the ‘state of the Jews’

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAPublished May 18, 2025

Last Tuesday night, the author and podcaster Dan Senor told an enthusiastic crowd at New York’s 92nd Street Y that despite a rising tide of antisemitism and a backlash against Israel’s war in Gaza that has left Jews feeling isolated and vulnerable,...

Joe Rogan says don’t ban Kanye West’s ‘Heil Hitler’ song, and Jews control diamonds

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished May 16, 2025

Joe Rogan defended Kanye West’s latest song, titled “Heil Hitler,” on his podcast Tuesday and echoed the song’s antisemitic stereotypes. West, released the track last week, in which he sings the chorus, ““All my n—s Nazis, n—a, heil...

‘We hate paintball Nazis’: Antisemitism scandal tears through paintball community

‘We hate paintball Nazis’: Antisemitism scandal tears through paintball community

By Hannah Feuer, The ForwardPublished May 15, 2025

Paintball players typically take to online forums to discuss game tactics and compare gear. But this week, the niche subreddit r/paintball was overtaken by discourse about a different subject: moral outrage over Nazi hate symbols. The controversy...

Israeli forces at the site of the May 14, 2025, shooting attack in the northern West Bank. (Israel Defense Forces/X)

Pregnant Israeli woman killed in a terror attack on her way to give birth

Ben Sales, JTAPublished May 15, 2025

(JTA) — An Israeli pregnant woman who was on the way to deliver her baby was killed in a shooting attack in the West Bank on Wednesday night. The Israeli military said that a terrorist fired on cars next to the settlement of Bruchin in the northern...

Doug Cifu (left) and Dale Tallon pictured on January 2, 2016 in Sunrise, Florida. (Jeff Sanzare/NHLI via Getty Images)

Jewish NHL owner suspended after social media spat with fan he called an ‘anti-semite loser’

Jacob Gurvis, JTAPublished May 14, 2025

(JTA) — Jewish Florida Panthers minority owner Doug Cifu has been suspended indefinitely by the NHL after a social media spat with a fan that included discussion of the Israel-Hamas war and accusations of antisemitism. Cifu, a vice chairman and part-owner...

Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk speaks at an interfaith press conference condemning a man's recent burning of books on Jewish history and other topics, Beachwood, Ohio, May 12, 2025. (WKYC Cleveland/ Screenshot via YouTube)

Man burns library books on Jewish history, including Anne Frank’s diary, in Jewish suburb of Cleveland

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished May 14, 2025

(JTA) — A man checked out dozens of books on Jewish history and other marginalized topics from a public library in a heavily Jewish Cleveland suburb before filming himself apparently setting fire to them, local authorities said. Local Jewish leaders...

Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka

The secret Jewish history behind one of Art Deco’s most iconic artists — now on display in St. Louis

By Diane M. Bolz, Moment MagazinePublished May 14, 2025

This story was originally published on Moment.com. Sign up for the Moment Minute.  Editors Note: Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka was among the major Jewish artists the Jewish Light told you about last month as part of the new exhibition “Roaring:...

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