Judaism

Israelis and Jews worldwide will observe Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, beginning at sundown on Friday, October 11, and ending at nightfall on Saturday, October 12.

The left hates Israel because it asserts its borders, not dissolve them, as European nations have strove to do. But sometimes war is inevitable, because war can be just.

Two suspects involved in an attack on a synagogue in southern France at the weekend were charged late Wednesday and remain in custody, Paris anti-terror prosecutors said.

A man suspected of trying to set a synagogue ablaze in the southern French city of la Grande-Motte was arrested late Saturday after a shoot out with police, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.

Three synagogues in New York City and the Brooklyn Museum were subjected to false bomb threats on Saturday, according to police.

I marveled at the courage of these humble Christians who defied travel warnings and Iranian threats. Perhaps those prayers worked, because what transpired later that evening was miraculous.

Veteran actor Robert Davi (“Die Hard,” “The Goonies”) plays the strong, defiant Jewish leader Rafuel Lowy in the new Holocaust drama “Bardejov,” which tells the compelling story of how a small Jewish community in a Slovakian town cunningly worked to save themselves from certain death in the early days of World War II.

A man was arrested by French police Monday after he attacked a Jewish man from behind in the French capital and stabbed the victim six times.

A self-described Palestinian migrant was charged with assault and robbery as a hate crime for allegedly removing a Long Island man’s Israeli flag from his porch and then beating him up in front of his neighbors.

Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, appeared to try and end 2023 on a conciliatory note by apologizing to the Jewish community after a year of vile antisemitic rants.

Dr. Phil McGraw condemned America’s universities for fostering the intense antisemitism the country has seen in the months following the horrific October 7 terrorist attack on Israel.

Israel has upgraded its travel warning for Australia, pointing to “rising incitement” against Jews driven by the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack for the change.

Hillel International at Harvard has issued a statement calling on the Ivy League university to hold those who disrupted classes with antisemitic and genocidal chants accountable.

Actress Julianna Margulies (ER, The Good Wife) has issued a very public retreat from statements she made about black and LGBTQ Americans, largely college students.

London council has cancelled its annual Hanukkah candles this year as doing so could “risk further inflaming tensions within our communities”. 

Argentine President-elect Javier Milei announced on Sunday night that he would be flying to the United States overnight and making stops in New York and Washington, DC, on Monday.

Hundreds of German police officers raided the properties of Hamas members and followers of the terrorist group on Thursday morning in the wake of a formal ban on any action by or in support of the anti-Israel activists.

Rabbi Simon Jacobson, a towering figure in the Chabad-Lubavitch movement and author of the best-selling book Toward a Meaningful Life, reveals he had an “incredible” meeting with Argentina President-Elect Javier Milei this year. 

Many in the majority-Jewish Canadian town of Hampstead worried about the potential for unrest tied to the Israel-Hamas war, but residents of the small Quebec community have been startled by the scale of the outbreak of anti-Semitic incidents in recent weeks.

Hundreds of members of Detroit’s Jewish community landed in Washington, DC, on Tuesday to march in solidarity with Israel in its war against Hamas terrorists only to be stranded at the airport after what was described as a “malicious walk-off” by some bus drivers.

Israel’s right to self defence has been airily dismissed by a U.N. official who declared the fight against Hamas terrorists amounts to “war crimes” that must be accounted for.

A Jewish man spent four days in hospital after he was brutally attacked in Sydney, Australia, by a gang of pro-Palestinian supporters.

Hamas terrorists kicked the lid off hell and invaded Israel on October 7 in a barbaric attack that included mass rape, murder, torture, and kidnappings. Ever since from the streets of Berlin, Paris, Rome and on to the very heart of London, New York’s Times Square, and the steps of the Sydney Opera House, there has been a dramatic surge in anti-Jewish hatred.

Stars of David were spray painted on homes in Paris on Tuesday night in what political leaders called a chilling evocation of “the 1930s.”

The reflexive left-liberal position of spouting antisemitism as Israel defends itself from Hamas terrorist attacks is leaving actor Josh Gad, who voiced the character “Olaf” in the Disney movie Frozen, feeling “desperately alienated & disheartened.”

A graphic video has emerged showing an Israeli mother and her two sons being dragged from their home near Gaza before disappearing Saturday as Hamas terrorists invaded Israel.

An Egyptian policeman reportedly opened fire on Israeli tourists in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria on Sunday morning, shooting dead two alongside one Egyptian, according to Egypt’s Interior Ministry.

Research by major German think tank finds Muslims can be over four times as likely to agree with antisemitic statements than average.

A small group of neo-Nazis who posed with flags outside Georgia synagogues on Saturday were countered by displays of goodwill and tolerance from the very Jewish communities they set out to antagonize.

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is weighing in on the controversy over Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, saying his recent performances in Germany were antisemitic, an assessment shared by many in Israel and the pro-Israel community.

Roger Waters took center stage at his concert in Frankfurt, Germany, on Sunday and was soon met by Jewish protesters waving the Israeli flag and singing Am Israel Chai (the people of Israel live).

Israeli military forces hit targets in Syria early Sunday morning in retaliation for two batches of rocket attacks launched by a Damascus-based Palestinian group loyal to the Syrian regime.

Greek police arrested two Pakistani nationals accused of planning a terror attack against a synagogue in Athens Tuesday, following a tip from the Israeli intelligence agency.

Conservative radio host Mark Levin slammed the Democrat Party for “tolerating” antisemitism, saying the left would sooner call former President Trump a white supremacist than address its own history of Jew-hatred.

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) made one of his first trips as leader to a Hasidic town in New York — to tout the Republican policy of parents’ rights in education and meet with the local head rabbi — amid an assault on Orthodox Jewish communities by the state government.

Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg published an op-ed in the New York Times on Sunday warning against the Netanyahu-led government’s plans to reform its left-leaning judiciary, saying Israel was “courting disaster.”