A tide of protests and negative publicity generated by the Borough of Manhattan Community College’s plan to show a film that has been criticized by Israel and Jewish groups for showing Israeli soldiers executing a Palestinian family during the War of Independence prompted the college to cancel the event the day before it was to be held.
Israel’s vibrant democracy, commitment to helping African neighbors and its representation of a centuries-old dream by the Jewish people to return to their ancestral homeland stand as a beacon of hope and a source of strength to the emerging nations of Africa.
Candis Ann Perrault of South Burlington and formerly of Charlotte Vermont lived a remarkable life through her positive attitude, enthusiasm, faith, fearlessness, and courage.
Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz uprooted the 350 staff and students of the Mir Yeshiva from Eastern Europe as World War II threatened its existence, arranging their move from Japan to Shanghai to Brooklyn, making it the only yeshiva to survive the Holocaust intact.
Local members of the Jewish community and political leaders expressed shock and outrage after a judge allowed a suspect with plans to attack a synagogue to remain free on bail.
Rutgers University Chabad will be able to cut in half the outstanding debt remaining on its $6 million mortgage after raising about $1 million at the 44th National Founder’s Anniversary Dinner.
In an effort to head off a “very dangerous development” of the state overstepping its legal authority in regulating what Orthodox yeshivas teach, a broad coalition of religious rights groups and yeshivas have filed suit against the New York State education leaders.
The Jewish fraternity on Rutgers University’s New Brunswick campus has had a fourth act of antisemitism directed at it over the last 18 months after three broken eggs were found on the sidewalk in front of Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) fraternity house on the first day of Rosh Hashanah.
He lost his entire family in the Holocaust and survived the Plaszow and Mauthausen concentration camps, but in his 96 years Edward Mosberg helped rebuild the Jewish life lost by him and so many other Jews during the Shoah.