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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.
“There is no reason for a Jewish student in Lexington to be afraid,” said Rabbi Shlomo Litvin of Chabad at the University of Kentucky.
The official security organization of North American Jewry noted that anti-Jewish content is on the rise on the social media platform following the verdict in the trial of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter.
Despite a summer of record high temperatures, it’s business as usual in the Grand Canyon State.
The House and Senate bills recognize 60 diplomats who risked their careers and often their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.
“I’m proud I was fortunate to be able to experience my whole life with Israel from infanthood to adulthood,” says Daniel Goldschmiedt, formerly of Queens, N.Y.
Participants will be urged to sign a petition urging the U.S. State Department to bring him back from Russia.
The shop on Manhattan’s Upper West Side was the only kosher entrant.
Yossi Margaretten of Chaverim of Rockland, N.Y., told JNS how and why his second night of Passover was different from all his other second Passover nights.