‘No two hours are the same’: 20 years in, Efrem Goldberg loves the rabbinate The Boca Raton Synagogue, which has grown some 150% since Goldberg took the helm, is poised to undergo a $20 million expansion. Vita Fellig Feb. 3, 2025
New ‘Yad Vashem Way’ in NYC ‘will trigger reflection,’ Dani Dayan says “This institution of Yad Vashem, which is more necessary than ever, is now going to have a rightful place on the streets of New York,” Keith Powers, a New York City Council member, said at the street naming. Vita Fellig Jan. 30, 2025
Threatening Jews 6,000 miles from Israel does nothing for Palestinians, Ohio State student says “It is 2025 and the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz being liberated, and there is someone Jewish in Ohio, in America, that is scared to walk home,” the student said. “You’ve got to be kidding me.” Vita Fellig Jan. 30, 2025
‘Build a better world one good deed at a time,’ says Holocaust survivor, 81 Gabriella Major told attendees at an AJC event that she survived the Holocaust based on a stroke of luck some 80 years ago. Vita Fellig Jan. 28, 2025
UN received report on Oct. 7 Hamas sexual crimes better than expected, its author says “If it happened in Israel, and we weren’t prepared for it, it can happen to other countries too,” Yifat Bitton told JNS. Vita Fellig Jan. 24, 2025
Israeli envoy: Hostages in Gaza ‘first priority’ in talks with Washington Danny Danon told reporters in New York that the ceasefire and hostage release deal comes at a “very heavy price.” Vita Fellig Jan. 23, 2025
Anti-Israel activists disrupt Israeli history class at Columbia University “They refuse to accept Israel as a normal part of discourse at Columbia University and in the world,” Elisha Baker, a junior at the school, told JNS. Vita Fellig Jan. 22, 2025
Harvard settles lawsuits, adopts IHRA definition of Jew-hatred “I would call this a Trump effect,” Kenneth L. Marcus, chair of the Brandeis Center, told JNS. Vita Fellig Jan. 21, 2025
Nearly 300 Jewish young professionals speed date at Chabad event in Brooklyn “I was so afraid of marrying the wrong person,” said Aviela, 31, of Tampa, Fla. Vita Fellig Jan. 20, 2025