One midwinter afternoon in 1926, the socialists at the Jewish Daily Forward called the cops on the Jewish left. Columns of angry workers marched on the Forward’s Lower East Side headquarters, carrying banners that read “Down With the Forward.” The Forward knew they were coming, so the newspaper bosses called police headquarters for help. The…
Two days after a 19-year-old white supremacist stormed a synagogue in California, security experts are calling on synagogues to guard their doors. That’s a bitter pill to swallow for many American synagogues, for which open doors have been all but an article of faith. But in the wake of two deadly synagogue attacks just six…
Saturday was the last day of Passover — one of the four times during the yearly cycle of holidays that Jews recite Yizkor, the prayer for the dead and for martyrs. There were several dozen people in attendance for the service at the Chabad of Poway, the only Orthodox synagogue in northern suburbs of San…
A gunman killed one person and injured three more at a synagogue outside San Diego on Saturday. Here’s what we know about the attack. Click on each article for more details: Some details of the incident have been released: The shooting took place at Chabad of Poway, on the six-month anniversary of the Pittsburgh synagogue…
Attorneys for the publisher of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer have said they intend to stop representing him because he refuses to emerge from his overseas hiding place to testify in his harassment trial, HuffPost reported Thursday. Andrew Anglin was sued in 2017 by a Montana woman named Tanya Gersh, a year after he…
Most job interviews are little more than sitting in a windowless room, answering questions from a manager with your resume in one hand and coffee in the other. For rabbis aiming for the pulpit, they’re a little different. This past winter, Temple Israel Center, a large Conservative synagogue in Westchester County, New York, had four…
What do you do with 665 pieces of the Holocaust? That’s the question facing Edie Mermelstein, the daughter of survivor, human rights activist and collector of Holocaust artifacts Mel Mermelstein as the latest Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day – approaches on May 1. Since 1972, Mel has displayed his pieces as a teaching tool…
Ukraine has become the first country whose president and prime minister are both Jewish — besides Israel, of course. Volodymyr Zelensky, a Jewish Ukrainian actor, was elected president of the country over the weekend and will soon serve with Volodymyr Groysman, who has been prime minister since 2016. It’s an interesting first that brought up the…
On Lee Avenue, in the heart of Williamsburg, the Hasidic parents and children hurrying in the hours before the Passover holiday are living in the midst of a historic measles outbreak. Trips to the doctor’s office, where stricken children are being treated, have become truly dangerous for babies who haven’t yet reached the age at…
Conspiracy theorists were quick to blame Jews and Muslims for the shocking fire that enveloped the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Monday, despite French police finding it to be an accident. It’s a pretty common stream of events: The two cultures have somehow managed to be linked to a slew of tragedies and events….
In a Europe where anti-Semitism is on the rise, a country Jews still associate with the pogrom of family horror stories looks like it’s about to elect a Jewish comedian as head of state. It’s Ukraine, a country of nearly 44 million people. More than one million Jews were murdered here by the Nazis and…
