Category: Jewish

A funny thing happened on the way to Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral race this week. Despite often hysterical warnings about his alleged antisemitism and far-better-documented animosity to Israel, he captured a large share…

The Talmud is the beating heart of Jewish civilization. For more than a millennium, it has shaped not only Halakhah – Jewish law – but Jewish thought itself. Yet few, even among Jews, understand what it is or how it functions. Written mostly…

Last year, Amsterdam’s Royal Concert Hall held its 10th anniversary of a Hanukkah concert series that was rebooted 70 years after it was halted by the Nazis, in what some Dutch Jews saw as a repudiation of antisemitism that had swelled during the…

‘White Supremacists Are Not My Problem’

After negotiations blew up over a demand that Yair Netanyahu, the prime minister’s son, be appointed to a senior position in the international Zionist movement, the major factions in the World Zionist Congress have reached an agreement in…

‘I fear living in a city where anti-Zionist rhetoric is normalized,’ said Central Synagogue’s Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, saying his remarks echo ‘age-old antisemitic tropes.’ Days from the mayoral election, as polls suggest a…

LONDON – For weeks now, Britain’s Jewish community has been making headlines in Israel, not least due to the terror attack on Yom Kippur, a month ago, in which two members of a Manchester synagogue were killed by a British citizen of Syrian…