Jewish Religion and Thought
“The whole world’s forgetting how to stay focused, how to learn, how to read,” Rabbi David Bashevkin told JNS.
A new, vague provision to strip funding mid-year is keeping some nonprofits, including synagogues, from applying for funding, “leaving their institution vulnerable to attack,” the legislators wrote.
With tens of thousands expected each evening at Judaism’s second-holiest site, 19 central Selichot services will be held until the eve of Yom Kippur.
“Antisemitism does not belong to the past; it is happening here and now, in the heart of New York.”
Zev Shandalov, a Ma’ale Adumim-based rabbi and teacher, transformed the six words Berger wrote after 482 days in Hamas captivity into a thousand-year-old poetic form.
“People are sick and tired of having to change their clocks twice a year,” said the U.S. president.
Jonathan Sarna of Brandeis University told JNS that the partnership “vividly displays the benefits of the free marketplace of competing synagogues in the American setting.”
“Here we are, proud to be a pillar of Jewish life in Appalachia and to be able to facilitate Jewish experiences,” Rabbi Adam Berman said after loaning the scroll to the 2026 gathering.
Echoing what Jewish leaders have said, Amb. Bill White stated that Moshe Aryeh Friedman “has no mandate whatsoever to speak on behalf of the Jewish community.”
The court ruled that Lawrence Hamby may proceed with several claims alleging Iowa prison officials failed to accommodate his requests for kosher food, Shabbat candles and other religious needs.
“It’s a small technical change, but it’s obviously going to make a very significant difference by opening this up to the lowest-income New Yorkers, who struggle to make ends meet,” David Greenfield, of Met Council, told JNS.
