Jewish World

Over 30 start-ups return Israel's northern tech hub as new recovery plan takes shape

Erel Margalit brought US business leaders and Jewish organizations together in New York to advance investment, jobs and long-term growth in northern Israel.

Erel Margalit speaks at a New York gathering focused on a long-term recovery and growth plan for the Galilee.
War and rising antisemitism have deepened the stakes of the Israel–Diaspora relationship, forcing Jewish communities worldwide to confront shared vulnerability and responsibility.

War reshapes Israel-Diaspora ties: Global Jewish leaders assess challenges ahead - from the editor

An aerial view of emergency personnel working at the scene of a shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, December 14, 2025, in this screen grab from a video.

Uncomfortable truth behind being a Diaspora Jew today - opinion

An aerial view of emergency personnel working at the scene of a shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, December 14, 2025, in this screen grab from a video.

One nation, many homes: Confronting antisemitism across the world - opinion


A Danish boat to freedom - The boat that saved 11 Jews in Denmark

New exhibit marks escape of Danish Jews from the Nazis.

ABRAHAM STEINBOCK and his wife, Molly, visit the boat that in 1943 took him to safety, at a fishing museum in Jutland, Denmark, in 2000

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Jewish highlights of Grammys: Breakout performance but no win for Haim

The ceremony was unusual: There was no audience, the nominees sat outdoors at socially distant tables and the awards were announced by people involved with local music venues across the US.

Megan Thee Stallion performs in this screen grab taken from video of the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, US, March 14, 2021

How can the Jewish people learn to sit with each other again - opinion

Unfortunately, recent statements within Israeli political discourse have undermined our ability to have an honest and genuine discourse with world Jewry.

MEN PRAY last year at the Western Wall.

Jewish souls - A rabbi’s treasures culled from around the world

Rabbi Eliahu Birnbaum has collected over the last 22 years thousands of treasures from the Jewish past.

Rabbi Eliahu Birnbaum in Venice

Jews of the South - In the Land of Firsts

In spite of the terror and repression of the Old South, Jews managed to survive and even thrive in the Land of Firsts.

Southern Jews wearing the Confederate gray

How two Sephardi families helped create Hong Kong, Shanghai business hubs

Kaufman’s book, which weaves a page turner of a tale, restores the two legendary families from Baghdad to their rightful place as masters of their universe during a bygone era.

People walk at the Bund, in front of Lujiazui financial district of Pudong, Shanghai

Jewish Mobsters: A conversation with writer Robert Rockaway

The book 'But He Was Good to His Mother' is based on a vast amount of research and interviews that Rockaway did with old-time Jewish mobsters and their families.

Jewish gangster Bugsy Siegel

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