Diaspora Jewry
Sevi, 70, is the 34th “hakham bashi” since the days of the Ottoman Empire.
“We want to know them, to understand them and to know how to make it easier for them if they will consider making aliyah,” a participant told JNS.
“This case has deeply alarmed residents across New York, particularly within the large Persian Jewish community on Long Island,” the legislators wrote.
Antisemitic incidents in Australia remain at historic highs, driven by serious attacks and IRGC-linked arson targeting Jewish sites.
The head of the U.S. Justice Department antisemitism task force told JNS that the president will take “decisive action” if the city’s mayor-elect “turns his back on the Jewish American community.”
On “Yom Haplitim,” the National Library of Israel hosted an event titled, “Sephardi Voices: The Other Refugees.”
There are “possible warnings” of riots against the Jewish community in Western nations, said the Aliyah and Integration Ministry director general.
The bereaved mother of the fallen hostage said that if she could meet the late Rabbi Sacks, she would ask him “if he had found Hersh yet.”
The competition run by Tel Aviv University in partnership with Brandeis University is open to Hebrew learners aged 12–18 around the world.
Adam S. Ferziger talks to JNS about his new book, “Agents of Change.”
“His entire identity is shaped by a need to please those who hate Jews,” British independent investigative journalist David Collier writes.
“As the very first superhero, he’s imbued the whole genre with Jewish resonance,” Roy Schwartz, a pop culture writer and historian, told JNS, referring to Superman.
