By: Fern Sidman A series of deliberate attacks on Jewish institutions in the United States and Germany this week has ignited fresh alarm among Jewish...

From Medieval Libels to Viral Lies: How Antisemitic Myths About Jewish Texts Are Flooding Conservative Social Media Once Again By: Fern Sidman By the time the...

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...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin This Shabbos, Shabbos Mevorchim, we bless the oncoming month of Shevat. Shevat, spelled Shin-Beis-Tes, is often read as an acronym for...

By: Rabbi Shlomo Katz We read near the beginning of our Parashah that Moshe spoke Hashem’s words to Bnei Yisrael, “but they did not heed...

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

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Fargess nisht dein numen…. Fargess nisht dein numen…. Don’t forget your name…. Don’t forget your name…. I was by my mother’s – Rebbetzin Esther bas...

By: Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier “And Moshe returned to HASHEM and said, “HASHEM, why have You done evil to this people? Why have You sent...

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...

Rabbi Hayim Asher Arking Rabbi Ezra Ghodsi Note: The following Halachot apply only to Asarah B’tevet and similar fast days, not to Tisha B’av or Yom Kippur. Why...

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...