Explosive lawsuit targets lying NY Times
Suit claims paper's board looked away as anti-Israel bias complaints piled up and rehired Hitler-loving Gaza freelancer; cites secret tapes from newsroom whistleblower who says she was told to 'go find a place whose values align with yours'
The Gray Lady is getting a very public checkup. Florida's giant state pension fund and a Washington think tank went to court in Manhattan on Wednesday to force The New York Times Company to open …
Five Towns + Politics
Bar the genocide liars from our shuls: Dermer
Former Israeli ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer told a Young Israel of Woodmere audience last Thursday that Jewish institutions should refuse to platform people who say Israel committed …
Vigil
Prayer brings SAR and Ramaz students to Gracie Mansion
Hundreds of Jewish students from SAR (the Salanter Akiba of Riverdale) and Manhattan’s Ramaz School streamed off yellow school buses on the Upper East Side on Friday morning, gathering outside …
politics
Bipartisan bill seeks to shield houses of worship
Leaders from more than 30 Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu and other faith groups gathered on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to urge passage of the Right to Worship Act, a bill designed to protect …
Health
Council and health groups meet on Jew-hate in medicine
Julie Menin, the first Jewish speaker of the New York City Council, and several members of the council met with representatives of more than a dozen healthcare organizations from across the city last …
Ethel's Kitchen
Back to basics: Sukkot oldies but goodies
It always seems unusual to focus on food for the outdoor festival of Sukkot, the Feast of Booths, before the start of Yom Kippur. It’s somewhat of a culinary conundrum to be considering menus when …
Travel + FIDF
350 bereaved teens visit US through an FIDF ‘Legacy’
The FIDF (Friends of the Israel Defense Forces) brought 240 bereaved Israeli teens to the United States this summer through its signature Legacy Program, marking the 20th year of the program and its …
Books
Sotheby selling ‘significant’ Jewish manuscripts
The international auction house Sotheby’s said that its December “magnificent Judaica” sale will include what it said is one of the “most significant” works in private hands by renowned …
News Briefs
8 charged in 1992 AMIA bombing that killed 151
Argentina has formally charged seven Iranians and one Lebanese national over the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, a major new development …
Paul Bachow
Facing deceitful genocide accusations in mirror
By multiple required legal standards, Israel has not committed genocide in Gaza. Hamas, on the other hand, has not only committed atrocities; it has mastered the art of reframing them. By …
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Artists back Macklemore in ‘Free Palestine’ pileup
All four acts scheduled to perform during the remaining dates of Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour have withdrawn from the concert series following rapper Macklemore’s removal after …
Stephen Flatow
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Antisemites don’t get to decide where Jews live
Antisemitism is rising, but much of today’s scourge does not present itself in the crude language of racial inferiority that we associate with an earlier age. Increasingly, the accusation is …
Side Dishes
A Smash House is opening at Barclays Center
Smash House Burgers is bringing kosher food to Barclays Center, where it will operate during Brooklyn Nets games, New York Liberty games and non-Shabbat concerts. The stand will have its own …
Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks
Celebrating Sukkot, our unique dual festival
Among the festivals that give rhythm and structure to the Jewish year, Sukkot is unusual, unique. A detail which had a significant influence on Jewish liturgy appears in the book of Deuteronomy: …
Travel
Overcoming challenges, Israelis hit Mount Kilimanjaro
For a group of determined Israelis, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, which rises 5,895 meters (19,341 feet), was only the most recent challenge they have had to overcome. Thirty-six …
conspiracies
Jew-haters exploit Japanese Tengu folk imagery
An organization that spots hateful online trends has alerted social media giants of the growing use of Tengu — imagery from Japanese folklore — to demonize Jews …
Paul Bachow
Facing deceitful genocide accusations in mirror
By multiple required legal standards, Israel has not committed genocide in Gaza. Hamas, on the other hand, has not only committed atrocities; it has mastered the art of reframing them. By …
media
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Miss Israel in NY meets Dinowitz, not Mamdani
When someone connected to her team offered to see if Zohran Mamdani, Danielle Yablonka, Miss Universe Israel 2026, declined. “I’m always open to meeting and having conversations, but I’m …
Rabbi Uri Pilichowski
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Time has come for an educational homecoming
Israel education has spent decades fighting rearguard actions. It is time to advance. The story we teach our children and the world should not begin with the Holocaust. It should …
Jonathan Tobin
Can they really be comfortable with Vance?
Rabbi Hayim Leiter
Air-conditioners hot and bother the Jew-haters
Maia Zelkha
Times, BBC ignore Amnesty report on Hamas
This week in Torah
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When we build our sukkah, we’ve not given up
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Sukkos: Here’s what we do with the leftovers
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Celebrating Sukkot, our unique dual festival
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Emerging on Sukkot from darkness into light
Despite tears and pain, still ‘zman simchatenu’
As we conclude Yom Kippur, we are instructed by Chazal to start looking forward to Succot and begin constructing the succah immediately that evening. We are to look forward to zman simchatenu , …
Melanie Phillips
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The trillion-dollar campaign to conquer the West
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Alarm bells sound as New York falls of a cliff
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The global reach of a renewed war in Gaza
Diplomatic efforts to end the regional war launched by Hamas with its Oct. 7, 2023 pogrom in southern Israel have now returned to the place where it all started. Last week, the Board of Peace, the …
Ben Cohen
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Now the Jews are expected to commit suicide
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A Bibi defeat in Israel will not slow the hatred
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Amid rising Jew-hatred, Britain targets Israel
During an interview with the BBC the day after he announced a package of sanctions and other punitive measures against Israel, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said “I don’t go to …
Books
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From Brown University, Omer Bartov screams genocide libel
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Rabbi Steinmetz book presents ‘A Proud Jew’
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Dara Horn says American Jews need a new activism
For 80 years, American Jewish activism had a reliable formula: build institutions, tell the story and trust that education would do the rest. It worked well enough for long enough that most American …
On Campus
Here’s what real Jewish leadership looks like
Rabbi Dr. Mark Goldfeder and the National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) delivered a decisive, precedent-setting legal victory this week that cuts to the core of how antisemitism is litigated and …
More Opinion Columns
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What will it take to finally to wake us up?
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My body’s in America, but my heart’s in Israel
I keep seeing the same posts. Make aliyah. Come home. G-d is calling us back. I didn’t grow up Zionist. Israel wasn’t woven into the fabric of daily life in my house. It wasn’t the center …
Food: Dining In
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Resolving to break fast with health in mind
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Back to basics: Sukkot oldies but goodies
It always seems unusual to focus on food for the outdoor festival of Sukkot, the Feast of Booths, before the start of Yom Kippur. It’s somewhat of a culinary conundrum to be considering menus when …
Travel
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No longer passing through: Asia anchors Jewish life
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Overcoming challenges, Israelis hit Mount Kilimanjaro
For a group of determined Israelis, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, which rises 5,895 meters (19,341 feet), was only the most recent challenge they have had to overcome. Thirty-six …
Health
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Battle-injured Israeli farmer won't quit
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HHS stands against antisemitism in health care
Jewish patients and health care professionals could benefit from new federal guidance outlining protections against antisemitic discrimination in federally funded health care programs. The …