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News / JNS - 6 hours ago

Sukkah vs. skyscraper?

(September 27, 2023 / JNS) More than 40 years ago, when downtown Johannesburg was a vibrant civic center filled with shops, offices, hotels and a bustling inner-city life, many Jews lived and worked there. I remember setting up Chabad’s Central City...

News / JNS - 9 hours ago

Rice University’s PRIDE group cuts ties with Houston Hillel

(September 27, 2023 / JNS) The LGBTQ student group Rice PRIDE at Rice University in Houston announced that it has chosen to disassociate itself from Houston Hillel, the Jewish organization on campus. Rice PRIDE acknowledges that Houston Hillel has c...

News / JNS - 10 hours ago

Tragedy on Yom Kippur: The anti-Jewishness of the left

(September 27, 2023 / JNS) In this week’s “In Focus,” Caroline discusses two seemingly disparate but deeply interconnected events: the leftist assault on Jews attempting to pray on Yom Kippur Eve in Tel Aviv and other places throughout Israel; and t...

News / JNS - 11 hours ago

Academically approved antisemitism

(September 27, 2023 / JNS) Princeton University president Christopher Eisgruber is defending the use of an anti-Israel, anti-Jewish book in a course titled “The Healing Humanities: Decolonizing Trauma Studies from the Global South.” Eisgruber, Princ...

News / JNS - 13 hours ago

Israeli Cabinet member receives warm welcome in Riyadh

(September 27, 2023 / JNS) An Israeli delegation led by Tourism Minister Haim Katz received a warm, public welcome in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday during the opening session of a U.N. World Tourism Organization gathering. “There is a delegation here in...

News / JNS - 14 hours ago

The dark legacy of Babi Yar

(September 27, 2023 / JNS) The English word “holocaust” is borrowed from the Latin word holocaustum, used in the Latin translation of the Bible. This word is based in turn on a Greek word that means “burned whole” or “burnt offering.” In English, ho...