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Back to the basics: Savoring oldies but goodies during Sukkot

During cooler days and starry night skies, share some meals with family and friends while harkening back to the booths of yore.

Hundreds of Jewish residents protest outside of NYC Mayor Mamdani's home

Jewish protesters gather outside NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's home after a spike in antisemitism in the city over the Summer.

Thousands of Christians rally for Israel in Amsterdam; dozens of counter-protesters arrested

Dutch media reports 13 people remain in custody; public prosecutors deciding whether to press charges against them for defying ban on staging counter-demonstrations

Netanyahu: Iran regime will fall; China, Russia veto Iran sanctions review TV7 Israel News 18 Sept.

California court sentences Syrian general to 60 years for torturing inmates

Prosecutors say warden Samir Ousman Alsheikh "inflicted and ordered subordinates to inflict severe physical and mental pain and suffering on prisoners."

Jewish economist retakes lead in race for next U.N. secretary-general, no clear front-runner

“We have still not seen a single candidate present a detailed plan to combat institutional antisemitism at the United Nations,” Danny Danon, Israel’s U.N. ambassador, said.

Britain’s MI5 security agency admits officers gave false evidence to protect neo-Nazi informant

A government-ordered investigation found “serious and systemic failures” in the British security agency’s handling of the violent informant known as Agent X.

Archbishop of Canterbury withdraws interfaith harmony award for Muslim cleric who praised bin Laden

Imam Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi reportedly said in 2007 that the al-Qaeda leader had been “serving Muslims by waging jihad against infidels.”

‘Can’t shut kids out,’ students tell Mamdani at prayer vigil outside Gracie Mansion

‘I’m never going to forget this davening, two days or three days before Yom Kippur, where we’re again saying, ‘We’re here,’” Rabbi Haskel Lookstein told JNS.

Confronting Jew-haters is more important than worrying about cancel culture

Those who spout blood libels about Israel, like rapper Macklemore, have the right to free speech, but not to a platform. Zero tolerance for the surge…

US sanctions Iranian crypto exchange for bitcoin transfers to Revolutionary Guards

“Today’s designations of Iranian digital asset infrastructure make perfectly clear that efforts to finance the Iranian regime using cryptocurrencies are not beyond” the reach of American…

An encounter with ‘teshuvah’

From the world’s judgment of Israel to the harder judgment of ourselves.

Exhibit at NY Holocaust museum shows how Jews tried to ‘speak through history’ by hiding items in death camps

“One of the least appreciated forms of resistance are the efforts by Jews to maintain cultural and religious traditions while under sustained, brutal assault,” the U.S.…