When many people think of Judaism they normally identify the faith with people that appear to be from the Middle Eastern or European descent, but in actuality Jews can hail from any ethnic background and that’s exactly what one Chicago rabbi is out to prove.
Nine items which used to belong to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, or have been associated with him were sold to collector last week for a total sum of more than NIS 300,000 (about $80,000), 21 years after the Chabad leader’s death.
The Ukraine-born oligarch who founded the European Jewish Parliament met with Marine Le Pen, a far-right leader in France who is shunned by many Jewish groups worldwide.
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo has just vetoed Assembly Bills A07629 and A07639. These bills were specifically designed to stunt the natural growth of Kiryas Joel, the large Chasidic community within the town of Monroe in Orange County.
A Jewish teenager has been the latest victim in a string of anti-Semitic attacks occurring in Paris.
Haifa, Israel – The longtime leader of the Seret-Vizhnitzer sect died today after experiencing a cardiac event in Haifa at the age of 91.
A lawsuit in New York City has local residents crying afoul over Jewish slaughter of fowl, decrying what they called the “barbaric” Yom Kippur tradition of kaparot in which chickens are thrown to their death in a symbolic act of atonement.
Jerry Weintraub, a Hollywood producer whose long career touched entertainers from Elvis Presley to George Clooney, died Monday at his home in Santa Barbara, California, his publicist said.
A group of leading British rabbis have criticised the Austrian Jewish community for its treatment of a British woman involved in a custody battle with her Austrian ex-husband.
Journalist Yoav Yitzchak, who led the investigative assault on Efraim Bracha, says top cop was about to be summoned for interrogation.