Jewish Life
Elimelech Stern, from Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem, was charged with illegal contact with a foreign agent.
In the early days of the state, a surprising alliance emerged between haredi Jews and the Zionist cause.
Plaintiff Ronen Helmann detailed numerous acts of intimidation, including the threat “Slaughter the Jews.”
The prime minister spoke at a meeting marking 30 years since the death of the Lubavitcher Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
The announcement follows the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that the government must draft haredi Jews into the military.
“It’s become OK to be antisemitic in America,” says Rabbi Dovid Labkowski of the Chabad Jewish Center of Oakland, Calif.
“There was no question in our minds that this year’s Kinus had to be in Israel,” said Rabbi Avi Weinstein, COO of Chabad on Campus.
A committee established by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant recommended allowing Hebrew acronyms for “may God avenge his blood” and “of blessed memory.”
A spokeswoman for the Pittsburgh police called the crime “a hoax in line with other similar threats against synagogues around the country.”
U.S. President Joe Biden said the “despicable” and “vile” desecration of graves at two Jewish cemeteries “is antisemitism.”
“I’m a black guy in the middle of the night breaking into cars, and I found myself standing in front of a dead white woman,” Michael Jackson-Bolanos told the court.
The former city councilwoman born to Jewish parents had married a Catholic man but continued to regard herself as Jewish, unbeknown to many.
