2+ hour, 19+ min ago   (241+ words) Jewish organizations from around the world signed the J50 Declaration on Zionism and Antisemitism in Jerusalem on Thursday, which states unequivocally that “Zionism is part of Jewish identity.” William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,…...

2+ day, 39+ min ago   (307+ words) Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Friday marked the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States, noting that the “evil of that vicious” assault still resonates today as the fight against terrorism continues and emphasizing that the Jewish…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (479+ words) The declaration tells our story at the singular turning point when the Jewish people returned to history as a people. It is a capsule of distilled Israeli DNA, implanted in our national bloodstream by the founding generation as a gift…...

2+ day, 42+ min ago   (300+ words) Israeli President Isaac Herzog called on Jews around the world to enter the new year with pride, a commitment to action and respect for one another in a Rosh Hashanah message released on Thursday. “The defining sound of Rosh Hashanah…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (391+ words) Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, thinks that criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not make one anti-Israel and that the prime minister’s response to Oct. 7 is making the Jewish state less…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (593+ words) Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, offers the promise of a new beginning. Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, asks us to examine our actions, acknowledge where we have fallen short and consider what we must do differently. That reflection…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (735+ words) Summer is an ironically somber time for Jews. While the weather reaches pleasant highs, the Jewish calendar reaches its nadir. The fast of Tisha B’Av commemorates what ArtScroll’s introduction to the book of Lamentations, read in the synagogue that evening,…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (457+ words) “I don’t go to synagogue.” So said the British Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, during an interview with the BBC the day after he announced a package of sanctions and other punitive measures against Israel, sending relations between London and Jerusalem…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (527+ words) Shortly after attending the 25th anniversary commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, Julie Menin, the New York City Council’s first Jewish speaker, released a video message to Jewish New Yorkers ahead of Rosh Hashanah, which begins…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (330+ words) A new House report warns that the Oct. 7 attacks “significantly altered the terrorism threat environment” both in the United States and internationally. Titled “National Security Improvements and the Domestic Threat Landscape 25 Years After 9/11/01,” the 130-page report states that the Israel-Hamas…...