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Tourists will be barred from traveling to Israel for 2 weeks as the country monitors Omicron variant

Tourists will be barred from traveling to Israel for 2 weeks as the country monitors Omicron variant

November 28, 2021
Workers at the site of the excavation in the Lachish Forest. (Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Ruins of a Hellenistic fortress show ‘tangible evidence’ of Hanukkah story, Israeli archaeologists say

November 20, 2021
Pauline Bart frequently lectured about issues related to womens health. (Newspapers.com)

Pauline Bart, sociologist whose Jewish identity infused her research, is dead at 91

November 15, 2021
Pfizer is calling its pill Paxlovid. (Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Israel to purchase tens of thousands of doses of Pfizer’s new anti-viral COVID treatment

November 14, 2021
Kanye West calls for a ‘Christian kibbutz’ movement

Kanye West calls for a ‘Christian kibbutz’ movement

November 8, 2021
Aiden Arthurs receives the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine at the Jewish Federation/JARCs offices in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, May 13, 2021. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images)

COVID-19 vaccines for kids are coming. These rabbis (and their kids) are ready with new prayers.

November 2, 2021
Bed, Bath and Beyond quickly pulled a Hanukkah pillow that used a Passover phrase. (Alma/Emily Burack)

‘Tis the season of Hanukkah misfires — and chastened retailers

November 1, 2021
Arthur Kurzweil first encountered amulets and dreidels excavated by treasure hunters during a trip to his fathers hometown in Poland. Now he has collected thousands of them. (Photo by Shira Hanau; background courtesy Kurzweil)

A prolific Jewish writer has collected 4,000 tiny dreidels found by Eastern European treasure hunters

October 29, 2021
Mila Kunis on a film set in New York City, Aug. 29, 2021. (MEGA/Getty Images)

Mila Kunis, Neil Patrick Harris, Helen Mirren and over 200 other celebrities sign letter denouncing cultural boycott of Israel

October 28, 2021
Mort Sahl in 1960. (Getty Images)

Mort Sahl, Jewish comedian who fused stand-up with political satire and inspired the likes of Lenny Bruce, dies at 94

October 27, 2021
FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel testifies during an oversight hearing in Washington, June 24, 2020. (Jonathan Newton-Pool/Getty Images)

Jessica Rosenworcel set to become first woman to lead FCC permanently

October 27, 2021
Protesters against Chinas policies toward the Uyghurs demonstrate outside U.N. headquarters in New York City, March 22, 2021. The protester in the foreground is wearing a kippah. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Israel declines to sign UN statement on China’s treatment of Uighurs

October 26, 2021
Travelers at Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv in 2018 (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel set to permit vaccinated tourists starting Nov. 1, but questions remain around children and boosters

October 21, 2021
Several kosher restaurants in Hollywood, Florida donated food to the local police precinct after an officer was shot responding to an attempted robbery. (Adina Ciment)

Florida Jewish community sends food to police precinct after officer was shot nearby

October 21, 2021
Ari Nagel, once dubbed the Sperminator, grew up Orthodox in Monsey, New York, and now spends much of his time donating sperm and staying in touch with the progeny that result. (Getty Images)

Jewish serial sperm donor Ari Nagel nears 100 children after a prolific pandemic

October 20, 2021
A statue of Thomas Jefferson, seen at rear behind former City Council Member Mark Weprin on Dec. 10, 2013, stood in New York City Council chambers for over 100 years. (NYC Council Photo by William Alatriste)

The Thomas Jefferson statue removed from New York City Council chambers was a gift from a Jewish military officer

October 20, 2021
The Supreme Court building at dusk.(Wikimedia Commons)

American victims of the Second Intifada want the Supreme Court to review their case suing British bank over transfer of Palestinian funds

October 20, 2021
A page from the notebooks of Mr. Shushani, a mysterious scholar who taught many of the greatest Jewish studies scholars of the 20th century. (National Library of Israel)

Israel’s National Library to display notebooks of mysterious scholar who taught Elie Wiesel

October 19, 2021
The center-right candidate for mayor of Rome, Enrico Michetti takes part in a press conference Oct. 8, 2021. (Stefano Montesi - Corbis via Getty Images)

Mayoral candidate in Rome accused of antisemitism loses election to center-left

October 19, 2021
Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker speaks at a rally featuring former US President Donald Trump on September 25, 2021 in Perry, Georgia. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Senate candidate Herschel Walker cancels fundraiser over host’s anti-vax swastika profile picture

October 14, 2021
A prison. (Justin Elson/Flickr Commons)

Texas Jewish death row inmate who argued judge was antisemitic wins new trial

October 13, 2021
The grave of Max Friedländer, a Jewish singer and music scholar in Stahnsdorf near Berlin. (Jens Kalaene/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Holocaust denying neo-Nazi’s remains were buried in a Jewish man’s grave in Germany

October 13, 2021
Seth Boyden Elementary in Maplewood, N.J. (Google Street View)

Jewish teacher accused of forcibly removing a student’s hijab at NJ school

October 11, 2021
Bahrains Jewish community celebrated its first Jewish wedding in the country in 52 years Sunday. (Houda Nonoo)

First Jewish wedding held in Bahrain in 52 years

October 11, 2021
Joshua Angrist, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics. (MIT)

Israeli-American economist Joshua Angrist wins Nobel Prize for research on causal relationships

October 11, 2021
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who founded Ben & Jerrys in 1978, spoke about the companys decision to stop selling ice cream in the West Bank in an interview with Axios released Sunday. (Screenshot)

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield say decision to stop selling ice cream in West Bank is not a boycott of Israel

October 11, 2021
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the formation of a Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. (Governor Newsoms office)

Gavin Newsom launches council to boost California Holocaust education

October 7, 2021
Director Eran Kolirin, far left, and cast members of Let It Be Morning, receive an award at the Ophir Awards, Israels Oscars equivalent, in Tel Aviv, Oct. 5, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

A story about Palestinians won Israel’s highest film honor. Its stars skipped the award show in protest.

October 7, 2021
A man takes a selfie while visiting the grave of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the former head of the Lubavitch movement, on November 2, 2018 in Queens, New York. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

For Orthodox Jews and Israelis, Whatsapp outage highlighted basic community infrastructure — and its vulnerability

October 7, 2021
American Girl unveiled a doll outfit for Hanukkah complete with a sparkly blue dress, silver shoes, a head band, and a Star of David necklace. (American Girl)

American Girl releases Hanukkah outfit and gift set for dolls, complete with Star of David necklace

October 6, 2021
Meshek Kedumim, an egg farm in Israel, printed a message to participants in the Daf Yomi Talmud study program in honor of the conclusion of Tractate Beitzah, which means egg. (Facebook)

Israeli chicken farm prints special message on eggs in honor of a Daf Yomi milestone

October 6, 2021
The toilet was carved from limestone and was built with a septic tank underneath it. (Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Lost toilets of the First Temple: 2700-year-old private toilet found in Jerusalem

October 5, 2021
Rep. Madison Cawthorn arrives for a House Republican conference meeting in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center in Washington, D.C., May 12, 2021. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Madison Cawthorn cites Hebrew bible figures in ad pushing the government ‘to uphold Christian principles’

October 4, 2021
David Julius, a professor of physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, was one of two recipients of the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. (University of California, San Francisco)

Scientist David Julius, whose grandparents fled antisemitism in Czarist Russia, wins Nobel Prize in medicine

October 4, 2021
A view of the South Hebron Hills, taken in 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

3 Israelis arrested after settler attack that injured 12 Palestinians

September 30, 2021
Rabbi Moshe Tendler, who died Sept. 28, was a strong proponent of the view that brain death, rather simply the cessation of a heartbeat, should be considered death according to Jewish law, thus allowing organ donation. (Ben Harris)

Rabbi Moshe Tendler, whose thinking shaped Orthodox views on organ donation, dies at 95

September 30, 2021
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett walks back to his hotel after attending services for Shemini Atzeret on September 27, 2021 in New York City. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Naftali Bennett spends Jewish holiday at an Upper East Side synagogue after UN speech

September 29, 2021
Rabbi Sholom Lipskar listens as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference at the Shul of Bal Harbour on June 14, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

For this rabbi near Surfside, the High Holidays are for processing communal grief

September 13, 2021
The first Papaya meal drop will include three dishes made by famed Israeli chef Einat Admony. (Papaya)

Meet the artisanal gefilte fish purveyor who wants you to eat more vegan food

July 29, 2021
(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Retaliating against boycott decision, NYC grocery chain to reduce Ben & Jerry’s sales

July 27, 2021
Images of Andres Levine, Ilan Naibryf and Deborah Berezdivin, three of the Jewish victims of the Surfside building collapse, in center among other photographs of those missing posted at a makeshift memorial on the building site in Surfside, Fla., June 26, 2021. (Andrea Sarcos/AFP via Getty Images)

These are the Jewish victims of the Surfside building collapse

July 2, 2021
Curtis Silwa, the Republican candidate for mayor in New York City, decried the bloc vote, referring to Orthodox voters, in a resurfaced video from 2018. (Screenshot from Facebook)

NYC mayoral candidate said Orthodox Jews are trying to ‘take over your community’ in 2018 video

June 24, 2021
Faye Schulman lights a candle at a ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising at a UJA Federation building in Toronto in 2013. (Vince Talotta/Toronto Star via Getty Images) Living room

Holocaust survivor Faye Schulman, 101, documented partisan resistance in photographs

May 10, 2021
Flyers discouraging people from taking the COVID vaccines were posted in Midwood, a heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. (Luis Hernandez)

An Orthodox summer camp is planned for New York — and vaccinated folks aren’t invited

May 7, 2021
Steven Spielberg

A 1998 Spielberg-produced Holocaust documentary will be streamed on Netflix

April 23, 2021
Women walk through the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N.Y., April 10, 2019. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Childhood illness RSV is surging in Orthodox Brooklyn

April 22, 2021
A young woman and member of the Lev Tahor community in the Canadian city of Chatham, Ontario, Nov. 29, 2013. (Rick Madonik/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

Feds charge extremist Orthodox sect Lev Tahor with exploiting, kidnapping children

April 19, 2021
Joshua Kushner and Karlie Kloss attend The 2019 Met Gala in New York City, May 6, 2019. (Dia Dipasupil/FilmMagic via Getty Images)

Karlie Kloss’ baby’s name was leaked — by Josh Kushner’s former Israeli yeshiva

April 19, 2021
Camp Modin in Maine was one of the few Jewish camps to open last year. It plans to follow the same playbook this year. (Courtesy of Howard Salzberg)

What Jewish summer camp will look like this year

April 16, 2021
Rabbi Moshe Dov Ber Beck at a meeting in 2008 with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Leader of Neturei Karta, extremist anti-Zionist haredi Orthodox group, dies at 87

April 16, 2021
A Yeshiva University student wears a face mask on the grounds of the university in New York City, March 4, 2020.

Yeshiva University plans to eliminate in-person Hebrew courses indefinitely

April 15, 2021
A student bikes across campus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

University of Illinois to get a Jewish students’ dorm following spate of alleged anti-Semitic incidents

April 13, 2021
A student bikes across campus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

University of Illinois to get a Jewish students’ dorm following spate of alleged anti-Semitic incidents

April 13, 2021

Association of Jewish Studies president resigns over meeting with Steven Cohen

April 13, 2021
Andrew Cuemo

‘These people and their f***ing tree houses’: Andrew Cuomo chafed at campaigning on Sukkot

April 13, 2021
Israeli Minister of Education Yoav Galant at the annual Jerusalem Conference of the Besheva group in Jerusalem, on March 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

He was selected to receive Israel’s highest honor. Then his political views drew criticism.

April 11, 2021
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during International Womens Day in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on March 8, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. Defense Secretary lands in Israel, marking first cabinet visit by Biden administration

April 11, 2021
Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang made a pre-Shabbat visit to Orthodox Brooklyn while filming campaign ad

April 11, 2021

Supreme Court lifts California restrictions on at-home religious gatherings

April 11, 2021

Brandeis president signs 5-year contract renewal after dispute with university’s board

April 9, 2021

Inspired by the pandemic, Jewish musicians are rolling out a year’s worth of spiritual ‘healing songs’

April 9, 2021
Eliot Resnick

Editor of Orthodox newspaper the Jewish Press was one of the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters

April 8, 2021

Orthodox Jewish couple accuses New York City housing authorities of religious discrimination

April 7, 2021
A rose is placed on the Holocaust Memorial on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. (Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

New ritual aims to bridge Holocaust remembrance to a post-survivor world

April 6, 2021
Yale to offer beginner Yiddish courses to fulfill language requirements

Yale to offer beginner Yiddish courses to fulfill language requirements

April 6, 2021
David Teyf

This chef, born next to a matzah factory, is delivering meals to Holocaust survivors

April 5, 2021

Orthodox Jewish couple and baby visiting New York City slashed in ‘possible bias incident’

April 1, 2021

Leader of extremist haredi Orthodox sect Lev Tahor arrested in Guatemala

March 30, 2021
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 9: Pedestrians walk near the Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov School in the South Williamsburg neighborhood, April 9, 2019 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. New York City has ordered all yeshivas in a heavily Orthodox Jewish section of Brooklyn to exclude from classes all students who arent vaccinated against measles or face fines or possible closure. The order comes amid a recent outbreak of over 285 measles cases in Brooklyn and Queens, most of which have been concentrated in the Orthodox Jewish communities. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

A Brooklyn Hasidic rabbi is under investigation for promoting child marriage

March 26, 2021
Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson: “Zoom seder gives the ability to mute the table’s inevitable kvetch”

March 26, 2021
A handout picture released by the Suez Canal Authority on March 24, 2021 shows a part of the Taiwan-owned MV Ever Given (Evergreen), a 400-meter-long and 59-meter wide vessel, lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across the waterway of Egypts Suez Canal. (Suez Canal Authority/Handout/AFP via Getty Images)

10 of the best Jewish tweets about the pre-Passover Suez Canal blockage

March 25, 2021

Over 500 rabbis condemn attempt to ‘rehabilitate’ sociologist accused of sexual misconduct

March 25, 2021

Oversight of Orthodox yeshivas becomes a major issue in New York City’s mayoral race

March 25, 2021
Kindergartners at the Moriah School in Englewood, New Jersey, one of seven Bergen County schools to urge families to abide by school guidelines outside of school in September 2020. (Courtesy of the Moriah School)

He convened an early effort to shut down Jewish life. Now this Orthodox rabbi is back at synagogue and school.

March 22, 2021
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia in Washington, Jan. 4, 2021. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images; JTA Montage)

Marjorie Taylor Greene makes her case against immigration in Orthodox magazine

March 18, 2021
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 12: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks at a United Nations (UN) Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East where the ongoing conflict in Syria was discussed on April 12, 2017 in New York City. It is expected that the Security Council will vote later on Wednesday on a draft resolution demanding that theÊSyrian government cooperate with an investigation of the suspected chemical attack last week. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Should Nikki Haley get her photo in the paper? For Orthodox magazines, it’s a question.

March 18, 2021
Inside empty temple

Synagogues are not rushing to reopen, even as vaccines are making gatherings safer

March 16, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene at a news conference in Dallas, Ga., Oct. 15, 2020. (Dustin Chambers/Getty Images)

Marjorie Taylor Greene visited Orthodox Brooklyn at invitation of the fur-wearing Capitol rioter’s brother

March 16, 2021
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Brooklyn rabbi who fled to Israel to escape sexual assault charges in 2010 extradited to US

March 12, 2021

Thousands of Orthodox Jews participated in a COVID-19 study last year. The first results are in now.

March 10, 2021
Rep. Nita Lowey in the Capitol, Oct. 16, 2019. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Nita Lowey says Andrew Cuomo should remain as NY governor amid sexual harassment investigation

March 10, 2021
AUSTIN, TX - MARCH 03: A Covid-19 restriction signs hang outside of H-E-B supermarket on March 3, 2021 in Austin, Texas. The popular Texas supermarket chain will not require customers to wear masks when the statewide mask mandate ends on March 10, 2021. (Photo by Montinique Monroe/Getty Images)

One Dallas kosher grocer removed the mask requirement. Then came the backlash.

March 9, 2021
People eat at the Hamotzi restaurant in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2021, after Israel reopened restaurants, bars and cafes to those who have been vaccinated. (Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images) 

With 41% of the country fully vaccinated, Israel begins reopening

March 7, 2021
A woman wears a mask while shopping for Passover items at a grocery store in Overland Park, Kan., April 7, 2020. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Vaccinations and tests enable some families to gather for Passover Seders this year

March 5, 2021
Deb Perelman demonstrates a recipe at an event in New York City, Jan. 25, 2018. (Donald Bowers/Getty Images for Ford Motor Company)

Deb Perelman is struggling with her hamantaschen

February 23, 2021
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 10: People walk through an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg on April 10, 2019 in New York City. As a measles epidemic continues to spread, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced a state of emergency and mandated residents of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg at the center of the outbreak to get vaccinated for the viral disease. Those who choose not to will risk a $1,000 fine. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Misinformation is making Orthodox women afraid to take the COVID vaccine

February 7, 2021
Israelis wait to recieve a Covid-19 vaccine, at a vaccination center operated by the Tel Aviv Municipality with Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov), at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, December 31, 2020. Photo by Miriam ALster/Flash90

Anti-vaxxer rabbi fired by synagogue over social media posts

February 3, 2021

A year of loss: Orthodox Jewry reels as rabbis die during COVID-19 pandemic

February 2, 2021
Students at the Leffell School in Westchester County, which emerged as an early epicenter for the coronavirus last spring in New York state, celebrated Purim from home in 2020. (Courtesy of Yael Buechler)

‘We’ve lost almost an entire year’: COVID-fatigued communities prepare for a distanced Purim

February 1, 2021
Thousands attended the funeral of Rabbi Dovid Soloveitchik, scion of a major rabbinic dynasty, in Jerusalem Sunday morning. (Screenshot from Twitter)

Thousands fill Jerusalem streets for funerals of major haredi Orthodox rabbis

January 31, 2021
Eretz Nehederet, an Israeli satire show, aired a sketch Wednesday portraying Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, a top haredi leader in Israel, as controlling the Israeli governments lockdown enforcement. (Screenshot from Channel 12)

Israeli TV show’s COVID-19 parody: Chaim Kanievsky, top haredi rabbi, is really running the country

January 29, 2021

Conservative Jewish leaders condemn Israel’s rejection of Ugandan Jews from immigrating

January 27, 2021

Yehuda ‘Yudi’ Dukes, Hasidic father of 6, is dead after 10-month battle with COVID

January 21, 2021
Wedding

Thousands attend secret Hasidic wedding in Brooklyn, many reportedly from Europe and Israel

January 19, 2021

Conflict over Capitol mob coverage roils Jewish Long Island as Orthodox media navigates a divided audience

January 12, 2021

FBI agents raid Brooklyn home of pelt-wearing Orthodox man in Capitol mob

January 12, 2021
Anne Neuberger attended an Orthodox Jewish day school for girls in Brooklyn. (National Security Agency)

Orthodox Jewish woman to be appointed to National Security Council cybersecurity position

January 7, 2021
Security forces respond with tear gas after the US President Donald Trumps supporters breached the US Capitol security in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Orthodox Jewish Trump supporters decry violence but not the movement that fueled the mob

January 6, 2021
Volunteers distribute food as people drive through in cars in Reading, Pa., Dec. 15, 2020. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images) 

Jewish philanthropists have increased their giving during the pandemic — but prioritizing causes has never been more difficult

January 5, 2021
Gary Schlesinger, the owner of ParCare, has posted pictures of himself multiple times with New York Attorney General Letitia James. James has recused herself from an investigation into whether the clinics inappropriately obtained and distributed COVID-19 vaccines. (Facebook) 

NY attorney general recuses herself from vaccine-fraud investigation into ParCare clinics, owned by a Hasidic supporter

January 2, 2021
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