Diaspora Jewry
The new professorship will ensure JTS students “graduate with an appreciation for the complexity and richness of the American Jewish experience,” the chancellor of JTS said.
Encountering wartime devastation, Israeli northerners initiate a revival that they say will only strengthen their cherished communities.
“We must urgently strengthen policies against rising antisemitism and empower our communities to rise up, together,” the national president of Hadassah said.
Jewish Agency chairman Doron Almog, who had family members killed and abducted in the Oct. 7 massacre, shares the path he sees to recovery.
They will read: “If you think turbulence is scary, try wearing a Jewish star.”
The U.K. government “must finally act against hate before it’s too late,” a representative from the Campaign Against Antisemitism told JNS.
RE-SPECS uses donated and surplus frames to provide eyewear to Israelis in need.
Weekly protests against Israel have made parts of London a “no-go” zone for Jews, according to the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
Incidents of Jew-hatred have surged in Australia since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Thousands of Soviet Jews risked persecution to greet Israel’s first ambassador, overwhelming security measures to show solidarity with the new Jewish state.
Despite the war in Israel, the country is set to receive more new citizens than in 2020 or 2021.
This year’s gathering in New York City took on new meaning, taking place just a week after the murder of Rabbi Zvi Kogan. It inspired them to do more to reach Jewish communities, near and far.
