Four people were charged with hate crimes in an assault on a Jewish man in New York State. The 19-year-old victim was hit on the head with an unsheathed knife Monday in Monsey after his attackers demanded money. The victim screamed, causing the attackers...
Volunteers. Advocates. Innovators. Those making a difference, whether by everyday service or extraordinary effort. These are just a few of the types the Jewish Light will honor with its third annual Unsung Heroes edition of Oy! Magazine and recognition ...
By Jessica Leader, JTA
• Published February 7, 2012
NEW YORK -- This wasn’t your typical bat mitzvah. It took place in Jakarta, Indonesia, a majority Muslim country with an Jewish community that is thought to number in the double digits. The bat mitzvah, Mei Lin Kallman, spent part of her Hebrew school...
Fifty Jewish leaders signed a pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in advance of Tu b'Shvat. The communal leaders and rabbis from the Conservative, Orthodox, Reconstructionist, Reform and Renewal movements on Monday signed The Coalition on the Environment...
PRAGUE -- Jewish and historical groups in Poland have called for a day to be devoted to Poles who helped Jews during the Holocaust. The Association of the Children of the Holocaust, the Jan Karski Association, and the Museum of the History of Polish...
The prime minister of Montenegro signed an agreement to recognize the Jewish community as an official minority in the country. Prime Minister Igor Lukšić signed the agreement Feb. 2 during an official ceremony held with representatives of the Montenegro...
Istvan Csurka, a far-right Hungarian writer and politician who was notorious for his anti-Semitism, has died. His family announced his death of an undisclosed illness at the age of 77 on Saturday. Late last year Csurka, a playwright and essayist, had...
SYDNEY, Australia -- An Australian TV broadcaster rejected complaints from Jewish groups that a controversial series "endorses and reinforces demeaning stereotypes about Jews." Special Broadcasting Service ombudsman Sally Begbie this week dismissed a...
By Mark B. Levin, JTA
• Published February 2, 2012
WASHINGTON -- A spate of recent media reports has discussed the inclusion of ultranationalists in the Russian protest movement. Jewish organizations, sensitive to the fragility of a newly emergent Russian civil society and Jewish community, need to speak...
JERUSALEM -- An office to help Russian immigrants to Israel and other countries prove their Jewish status has opened in Moscow. The Shorashim Center, also known as the Office for Clarification of Jewish Status, opened last week in the Russian capital's...
NEW YORK -- Yeshiva University is the fourth most popular school in the country, according to a recent U.S. News and World Report ranking. The annual rankings are based on the percentage of students who attend a university out of the total number who...
TORONTO -- A prominent Orthodox rabbi in Toronto has condemned the latest book by celebrity Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and pronounced it is "forbidden" for anyone to buy or read it. In an open letter published on the Jewish news website The Algemeiner, Rabbi...
