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Faygie Holt

Faygie Holt

Faygie Holt is the columns editor and editor of the JNS Wire.

Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, the chief rabbi of Great Britain, has suggested that Jews take on an extra mitzvah in the merit of the hostages.
New York Jewish community members have attempted to exceed the length of a 32-foot-long challah made by Grandma Moses Bakery in Australia, which broke a Guinness World Record in 2019.
“The community was shocked and outraged by the vandalism,” Jonathan Ornstein, CEO of the Jewish Community Centre of Krakow, told JNS.
“JLTV wants to offer our viewers a panoply of feel-good programming to demonstrate that even during these dark times, we present light,” executive vice president Brad Pomerance told JNS.
“Everyone is looking for a list of places they can support,” Michelle Geft of California told JNS.
“That these schools can’t call out evil and immorality, I just don’t understand,” one high school principal told JNS.
Jewish communal officials say there is no known, direct or credible threat of violence towards Jews, though they note that the general atmosphere remains highly charged.
“The NYPD will do their best, but I consider this rally a danger to the Jewish community,” Rabbi Yaacov Behrman told JNS.
They hid from the anti-Israel mob in the college’s library.