Jewish World

Marking Aliyah Day, which honors Diaspora Jews who chose to emigrate to Israel, Jewish Agency reports of record immigration requests since the global pandemic erupted. 

The Washington ceremony was to have included US Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Elan Carr and Dr. Shaikh Khalid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, chairman of the board of trustees of the King Hamad Global Center for Peaceful Coexistence in Bahrain.

National Museum of American Jewish History inducts illusionists Harry Houdini and David Copperfield into its hall of fame.

The decision by a majority-Muslim country comes days before its parliament hosts the first Balkans Forum Against Anti-Semitism.

European Jewish Association calls private sale of Adolf Hitler's speech noted "particularly worrisome" given rise of anti-Semitism.

The main themes of the Oct. 20-22 event will be aliyah, the effect of COVID-19 on global Jewish communities and growing anti-Semitism.

The nuptials of the grandchild of Satmar Grand Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, was set to take place in Williamsburg but the number of attendees raised concerns amid a new spike of coronavirus cases in the state.

Oscar-winning filmmaker recalls Stefania Buchala as an “extremely noble and religious person” who had the courage to risk not only her own life in sheltering him but also the lives of her children.

Richard Holzer was given fake bombs and dynamite by undercover FBI agents who found his racist and violent social media posts and planted them at one of Colorado's oldest synagogues, Temple Emanuel in Pueblo.  

In the 1950s, Fred Trump, the president's late father, donated the plot of land where the Beach Haven Jewish Center was built in Brooklyn and contributed towards its construction. He affectionately referred to Rabbi Israel Wagner, who approached the elder Trump for help, as "My Rabbi."