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Jewish Diaspora

News about Jewish communities outside the State of Israel

South Florida students depart Miami for Jewish National Fund-USA's Alexander Muss High School in Israel. Credit: Courtesy.

Study-abroad program helps Jewish high-schoolers connect to Israel

This experience reminded me that Israel is an “everlasting homeland,” a junior told JNS.

September 20, 2023

Map with the flag of Israel. Credit: Vrezh Gyozalyan/Shutterstock.

On eve of Rosh Hashanah, Jewish population rises to 15.7 million worldwide

The number of Jews in Israel is 7.2 million—up from 7.08 million last year.

September 15, 2023

Community members unveil a plaque at the reopening of the Ohel Ezster synagogue in Budapest, Sept. 5, 2023. Photo by Zsolt Demecs.

Hungary’s Jewish renaissance

Reopened synagogues give Hungary's Jews a chance to connect to their Jewishness, says Chabad Rabbi Shlomo Köves.

September 10, 2023

Attendees at the inauguration of a memorial to local victims of the Inquisition at the Jewish Museum of Oporto in Portugal, Sept. 3, 2023. Credit: CIP/CPJ.

Inquisition’s victims memorialized by Oporto Jewish community

The memorial wall features the names of 842 victims from Oporto and the dates of their autos-da-fé.

September 4, 2023

Inside the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Rhode Island judge approves eviction of Touro Synagogue tenants

New York's Congregation Shearith Israel says the congregation has failed to be a good steward of the site.

August 31, 2023

Torah scrolls of the Iraqi-Jewish community at the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center in Or Yehuda. Photo by Lily Shor.

The secret archive of the Iraqi Jews

The documents were rescued during the Iraq War and are now in Washington. The Baghdad regime wants them back.

August 31, 2023

Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament in London. Credit: Freepik.

Hundreds flock to London for global Jewish genealogy conference

The historic conference crossed the Atlantic for the post-COVID summit.

Georgia L. Gilholy

August 29, 2023

Jonathan Brent, executive director and CEO of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, speaks in Dubrovnik, Croatia at an International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance event in July 2023. Credit: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

After 15 years at YIVO’s helm, Jonathan Brent is bullish on the Jewish future

“This is potentially a golden age for Jewish self-awakening,” the nonprofit’s executive director and CEO told JNS.

Menachem Wecker

August 4, 2023

Anti-judicial reform protesters and activists clash with Israeli police as they block Begin Road near the Knesset in Jerusalem on July 24, 2023. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Politicized Tisha B’Av sermons won’t save Israel

The battle over Israeli judicial reform can’t be settled by faux piety about unity that doesn’t answer the question about who are the real modern-day Zealots.

Jonathan S. Tobin

July 24, 2023