By: Fern Sidman When Meir first stepped onto Israeli soil as a new immigrant, he carried little more than a suitcase, an abiding reverence for...

By: Ariella Haviv For generations of observant Jewish travelers, the act of seeing the world was shadowed by a second, more exhausting journey: the pursuit...

(JNS) – An account purporting to depict a “Rabbi Menachem Goldberg” has some 100,000 followers on Instagram and TikTok. Though the accounts post videos...

When Estonia's Chief Rabbi Shmuel Kot first proposed a new synagogue, members asked why it was needed. They pointed out the aging population and...

By: Fern Sidman Every mid-winter, a remarkable migration takes place. For decades, Syrian Jewish families from Brooklyn and Orthodox communities across the Northeast have made...

“Wherever anti-Zionism has been normalized, it has led to an increase of hostilities toward Israel and the Jewish people,” Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch told JNS....

Why Rabbis Must Speak Clearly About Jewish Self-Defense Bondi Beach Was Not an Aberration: Jewish Self-Defense Is a Moral Imperative By: Doris Wise, Founder of Jews...

In a first, Australian state government encourages acts of kindness to honor victims By: Moshe New The New South Wales government—the Australian state where the Bondi...

By: Reuven Y. Epstein At a time when headlines around the world chronicle a troubling resurgence of antisemitic incidents, a prominent American rabbi is offering...

Thousands of mitzvot performed at the site of Australia’s deadliest antisemitic attack By: Motti Wilhelm On the afternoon of Sunday, Dec. 14, Bondi Beach in Sydney,...

By: Fern Sidman In the aftermath of one of the darkest days in Australia’s recent history, a story of extraordinary courage has emerged—one that has...

By: TJVNews.com In the largest public Menorah celebrations in New York City, nearly 18,000 people gathered at Barclays Center Thursday night as the Brooklyn Nets...

Binyamin & Talya Kahane to Be Remembered 25 Years After Their Murder By: Fern Sidman Twenty-five years after the fatal ambush that claimed the lives of...

  By: Fern Sidman By any historical measure, Hanukkah is a festival rooted in defiance: a commemoration of resilience against forces that sought to extinguish Jewish...

  By: Fern Sidman Archaeologists working in Jerusalem have uncovered an object of extraordinary historical and emotional resonance: a rare 1,300-year-old personal pendant bearing the unmistakable...

“I think we should celebrate visibly and publicly, without fear,” Marco Schouwenaar told JNS. “But it’s making my wife uneasy, and I’m going to...