Category: Jewish

A Texas appeals court ordered on Thursday a new trial for Randy Halprin, a Jewish man sentenced to death for his role in the murder of a police officer in 2000. The new trial was ordered due to “antisemitic bias” on the part of the judge who… Continue Reading

Youths desecrated the Jewish cemetery in the city of Brody, Ukraine, during an erotic photo session, news outlet 4studio reported Thursday. According to the report, young men and women took semi-nude photos on the eve of Halloween last week using… Continue Reading

Ariel Kohane, an Orthodox Jewish supporter of Donald Trump, was at the Metropolitan Republican Club on the Upper East Side watching Fox News when the network announced that Trump had won the presidency.  The room “erupted… Continue Reading

The first in a series of ten online educational videos to educate young people about Jewish life and culture has been launched by the European Jewish Congress. Part of a EU-funded project called “Glad You Asked”, the short cartoons… Continue Reading

Eighty-six years ago this week, a series of pogroms took place in Germany and Austria. More than 1,000 synagogues were burned, their pews destroyed; sacred Torah scrolls and holy books were set aflame. More than 7,000 Jewish… Continue Reading

The National Library of Israel has unveiled a set of rare photographs of Jewish paratrooper Hannah Senesh ((Szenes) to mark the 80th anniversary of her execution. In 1944, Senesh was deployed into Nazi-occupied Europe by the British in a… Continue Reading

A Hasidic Jewish man in his 50s was severely beaten during an attempted robbery in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood Wednesday evening. The attack occurred around 7:20 p.m. as the man left a subway station near President Street and Utica… Continue Reading

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg is stepping down as senior rabbi of New North London Synagogue after 40 years of dedicated service. He will retire at the end of 2025, retaining the honorary title of Rabbi Emeritus. Rabbi Wittenberg, who was the… Continue Reading

Almost unnoticed, in the flurry of news and commentary over the US elections, was the barbaric execution on Monday of a 20-year-old Iranian Jewish man, Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani, who has been sitting in prison in Kermanshah, Iran, for two… Continue Reading

Eugene Vindman, whose Jewish immigrant story played a role in the first impeachment of Donald Trump, has been elected to Congress. Vindman, a Democrat, won a close race in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, which stretches south from… Continue Reading