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'Antisemitism is anti-American': Senate holds hearing for antisemitism envoy

Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun’s nomination as US Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism sparks debate over his bipartisan approach.

 Yehuda Kaploun and Donald Trump.
An undated handout photo released by the Metropolitan Police shows Howard Phillips, who was jailed on Friday for assisting a foreign intelligence service.

UK Jewish man jailed for offering then-defense minister's information to Russian 'spies'

 Val Kilmer in "Top Secret!"

‘That’s Simchas Torah’: The Jewish Val Kilmer moment you might have missed

 A student walks on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut November 12, 2015.

AI website 'Jewish Onliner' linked to team behind Yale Scholar's suspension


The path to aliya- Indian style

Freund’s goal is to find all those who descended from generations that suffered under the Inquisition and forced conversions, to bring them back into the fold and welcome them to Israel.

BNEI MENASHE immigrants arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport.

Parshat Balak: Meaningful involvement over splendid isolation

"Behold, it is a nation that shall dwell in solitude, and among the nations shall not be reckoned" (Numbers 23:9).

Painting by Yoram Raanan

Here and There: The times they are a-changin’

Can we imagine a day when the Orthodox synagogue will accept a rabba to lead the congregation?

Rabbi Herzl Hefter congratulates Rahel Berkovits and Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy on achieving smicha, becoming rabbis, or called ‘rabba.’

‘Let my people go!’

A look at some of the individuals embedded in the history of freeing Soviet Jewry.

LIMMUD FSU founder Chaim Chesler shows off a photograph of the hotair balloon he flew to bring awarness to Soviet Jewry.

Poll: Americans more apt to back Jewish candidates than evangelicals, Muslims

When the question about religion was first asked in 1937, less than half of Americans said they would vote for a Jewish candidate.

COLORADO RESIDENTS vote in the US midterm elections

Brazilian universities and the Jewish question

The Jerusalem Post

Taking the cautious road to redemption

While the idea of waiting for God to bestow on the Jews a messiah was rejected by Secular Zionists in traditional terms, many aspects of redemption were maintained and promoted.

A view of al-Aksa mosque on the Temple Mount from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.

After 100 years, Jewish WWI veteran finally gets honored

Shemin, a Jewish soldier who served with the 47th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, repeatedly exposed himself to heavy fire to rescue the wounded from Aug. 7 to 9, 1918.

US President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Honor to Elsie Shemin-Roth (C) and Ina Bass (L), accepting on behalf of their late father, Army Sergeant William Shemin

Maschiach, conversions and rabbis

The Jerusalem Post

NJ Jewish family’s struggle for mobility goes viral

Herzfelds enter online contest to win wheelchair accessible van

TZVI AND RACHELI Herzfeld enjoy a day at the beach