For one family who witnessed the weekend attack on their San Diego synagogue, it was not their first encounter with terrorism. A lone terrorist entered the Chabad of Poway Synagogue in San ...
Read More »Jews return to Warsaw Ghetto for Passover Seder after 76 years
Jews are returning to the Warsaw Ghetto, scene of unimaginable suffering during WWII, to hold a Passover Seder in the Warsaw Ghetto. It will be the first Passover Seder there in 76 ...
Read More »Front page of Polish newspaper teaches readers ‘How to Recognize a Jew’
A weekly newspaper that is distributed around Poland featured a front-page article about how to spot a Jew. Tylko Polska, or “Only Poland,” listed a number of features to look for when ...
Read More »Recently released letters from Einstein reveal faith, humor, fear of Nazis
While modern atheists like to assert Albert Einstein as one of their own, recently released letters prove he was interested not only in his own faith but that of his son who ...
Read More »Jewish couple gives $5 million to Christian missionary doctors
A Jewish businessman and philanthropist is giving millions of dollars of his wealth to help Christian missionary doctors in Africa. Mark Gerson and his wife Rabbi Erica Gerson are giving $5 million ...
Read More »Melissa Joan Hart opens up about how her faith in Christ impacts her parenting
Actress Melissa Joan Hart opened up on her Christian faith, detailing how it’s gotten her through many hard times in her life and changed her parenting. Hart, 42, also explained how she dealt ...
Read More »Israel to assist in scanning river for Holocaust victims
For the first time since the end of WWII, a search is beginning for Jews killed and thrown into the Danube River in Hungary. The move is at the behest of Interior ...
Read More »One in three European Jews want to leave
BRUSSELS—More than one in three European Jews have considered emigrating over the past five years because they no longer feel safe amid a surge in anti-Semitism, a European Union study showed on ...
Read More »President sends warm Hanukkah greetings to Jewish community
Against a backdrop of high approval ratings among Jews in the Holy Land, President Donald Trump has issued his Hanukkah greetings to the world’s Jewish community. A poll finds that Israeli Jews ...
Read More »Seventy-one years ago, the UN partitioned Palestine
Seventy-one years ago the United Nations passed Resolution 181 which called for the partition of British-ruled Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state (back then Jews living in the Holy ...
Read More »This muslim nation lives in peace with Jewish, Christian minorities
Is it possible for Muslims, Christians and Jews to live peaceably together? Most would say no but one Central Asian nation is proving them wrong. Rev. Johnnie Moore, founder of the interdenominational ...
Read More »Airbnb enters West Bank dispute, removes Jewish listings
The popular hospitality service Airbnb has picked sides when the company announced it would not allow listings in Judea and Samaria, both of which are nestled in a disputed swath of land ...
Read More »When people hate Jews, they hate who Jesus is
On the Jewish Sabbath last week, an anti-Semitic terrorist filled with hate murdered eleven worshippers within Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue. It is being called the deadliest attack on Jewish people in ...
Read More »Memorial to Jewish victims brings communities together but includes politics
The Jewish community was joined by a contingent of Christians Monday night at a memorial service for the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue attack. The vigil, held at Kihilath Israel Synagogue in ...
Read More »Israeli leaders offer prayers after synagogue attack
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the attack on Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue Saturday. “I was heartbroken and appalled by the murderous attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue today,” Netanyahu said in ...
Read More »Observing Biblical ‘time’ thru the High Holy Days
We live in a highly frenzied world where order has been gobbled up by “the tyranny of the urgent”. The possibility of personal peace endlessly eludes us? We ask, “How can I ...
Read More »Jewish Community Center and Kansas City Christian will share baseball field
It will be Opening Day at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City, known as The J, when it officially opens its new expanded baseball field. A formal dedication and ribbon-cutting ...
Read More »Busy year for improved U.S., Israel relations
U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is proving to be a powerhouse on the diplomatic front. She has emerged as the most vociferous supporter of Israel in the last 50 years. 2017 saw many ...
Read More »Is Hanukkah the Jewish Christmas?
I grew up a nice Jewish boy in Brooklyn, New York. When late December arrived it brought some interesting challenges. Why? My family owned a toy store! I knew little about Christmas, ...
Read More »Local Jewish writer on why she remembers the Holocaust
Last spring, in anticipation of the first annual March of Remembrance, I was given the honor of interviewing Sonia Warshawski, a Polish Holocaust survivor. Below is an abbreviated version of the interview ...
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