3+ day, 6+ hour 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…...

2+ day, 17+ 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…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (118+ words) JNS provides comprehensive Israel and Jewish news coverage, features, and analysis to print and digital publications across the globe. President Donald Trump offered warm wishes to Jews in the hours before Rosh Hashanah begins on Friday evening.“These two…...

4+ day, 56+ min ago   (180+ words) United Hatzalah is set to host Jewish musicians in Jewish music this coming Sukkot at Jerusalem’s Sultan’s Pool and celebrate 20 years of United Hatzalah’s unity and lifesaving mission. On Wednesday, Sep. 30, during hol hamo’ed Sukkot, Ishay Ribo, Avraham Fried, Yaakov…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (223+ words) Roof renovations at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron were completed Wednesday after several months of work, Israeli officials said. The Tomb of the Patriarchs is the burial place of the biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their wives…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (940+ words) A group of Temple Mount activists has condemned the government’s refusal to open Judaism’s holiest site to Jewish worshippers on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and allow the sounding of the shofar there. Following more…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (205+ words) Voice of the People, the global Jewish leadership initiative founded by Israeli President Isaac Herzog, opened applications on Wednesday for its second cohort, seeking 150 participants from communities worldwide. The new cohort will include 50 participants from Israel, 50 from the United States…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (341+ words) Responding to growing needs that have deepened over nearly three years of war, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is launching its annual holiday assistance program, allocating more than 24 million shekels (nearly $8 million) to assist 150,000 people with food and…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (438+ words) Amid an international diplomatic row over the prosecution of three Jews in Belgium for performing brith milah, the E.U. commissioner for health and animal welfare said on Thursday that in addition to keeping Jews safe, European nations should allow them to…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1467+ words) When he faced New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at a closed-door meeting with other New York rabbis in early August, Rabbi Rick Jacobs told the mayor plainly that his inflammatory rhetoric on Israel was “making Jews less safe,” he…...