Guns Gaining Traction in Shuls
(JTA) — On an average Saturday morning at the Orthodox Ohel Tefillah synagogue in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood, about 10 percent of the men carry a handgun.
That number...
Kiryas Joel Becomes Official New York Town
(JTA) — The Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel in New York became what is said to be the first official haredi Orthodox town in the United States.
Kiryas Joel became...
Jewish Student Leaders Convene in Jerusalem for WUJS Congress
More than 150 student leaders convened in Jerusalem this week for the 45th annual World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) Congress, voting to re-elect their chairperson and learning strategies to...
400 Teens From Americas Study Torah at NCSY Yarchei Kallah
During the last few days of 2018, the Ocean Place Resort and Spa on the New Jersey shore became a center of Torah learning for more than 400 teens...
Belgium’s Kosher Slaughter Ban to Take Effect on New Year’s Day
A ban on kosher slaughter in Belgium’s Flanders region will take effect on Tuesday after a law prohibiting animal slaughter was passed last year in the local parliament.
“That provinces within Belgium...
Crypto Jews Giving Brazil’s Dwindling Jewish Communities New Lease on Life
BY CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
RECIFE, Brazil (JTA) — Preparing to leave this city’s main Jewish community center, Sabrina Scherb peeks beyond its blast-proof gate into a quiet street strewn with branches...
Rabbi Shimon Bentov in NY, January 6-10
Rabbi Shimon Bentov, shlita, the esteemed mekubal and mezuzah see-er from Jerusalem, the son of Rabbi Moshe Bentov, z’l, will once again be in New York. Don’t miss this...
Reform Rabbinical School Won’t Be Led By a Rabbi
NEW YORK (JTA) —The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion has appointed Andrew Rehfeld, a political science professor who has led the Jewish Federation of St. Louis since 2012,...
Baseball Icon Lenny Dykstra Takes on New Hobby: Torah Study
As part of bettering his life since serving six months of a three-year sentence behind bars for grand theft auto and fraud, former World Series champion Lenny Dykstra has...
Rare Jamaican Ketubah to Be Sold at Sotheby’s Auction
(JTA) — A Jewish marriage contract, or ketubah, from 1884 made for a couple married in Kingston, Jamaica will be auctioned as part of a sale of “Important Judaica.”
The Sotheby’s catalog...
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Real Clear Daf: Are Eggs From Treifah Chicken Kosher?
We discussed this question on Thursday’s daf (58a). Ameimar there teaches that it depends on when the eggs formed. Eggs that formed before the...
Pompeo: Peace Plan to be Released After Israeli Elections
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Tuesday that the highly anticipated Trump administration’s peace plan for the Israelis and Palestinians — referred...
Ilhan Omar: 2012 Tweet About Israel Was ‘Offensive and Unfortunate’
BY RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Ilhan Omar disavowed a 2012 tweet in which she said Israel had “hypnotized” the world, saying the term...