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The Palisades Fire is a wildfire burning in the Santa Monica Mountains of Los Angeles County in Southern California which has killed at least three people. As of January 10, 2025, the fire had spread to 22,661 acres, destroying the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles and nearby Malibu.
January 13, 2025, 9:35 am
‘It’s gone’ – historic Californian shul reduced to ashes in wildfires
Beloved spiritual home of 400 families destroyed as raging LA fires leave community reeling; 'It's like Armageddon,' says longtime member.
By Michelle Rosenberg
Charity Commision
January 9, 2025, 1:44 pm
Chabad Lubavitch charity given official warning over support for IDF
Charity Commission says: 'It is not lawful, or acceptable, for a charity to raise funds to support a soldier of a foreign military'.
By Lee Harpin
Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, December 2024. European Jewish Youth Congress
December 20, 2024, 3:57 pm
Jewish teens rally at Brandenburg Gate
European Jewish Youth Congress brings 500 young people together for weekend of learning
By Michelle Rosenberg
Abu Dhabi (Wikipedia/Валерий Дед/https://web.archive.org/web/20161025061618/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/86584404/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)
November 23, 2024, 5:43 pm
Chabad envoy missing in UAE since Thursday
Fears for Rabbi Zvi Kogan as investigation launched by Mossad and Emirati security services
By JN Reporter
Chelsea Synagogue
November 8, 2024, 11:48 am
Concerns over future viability of Chelsea synagogue
United Synagogue-affiliated community frequently fails to get a minyan, according to attendance data. However, a spokesperson for the shul insists it is 'financially sound'
By Jenni Frazer
Daniel Sharabi, 24, and his brother Neriya, 22
March 26, 2024, 3:58 pm
‘A disgrace beyond all proportion’ – Israeli heroes of Nova terror attack detained and interrogated at Manchester Airport
Former attorney general condemns treatment of brothers Daniel and Neriya Sharabi, who tell Jewish News that once they told the border officers they were Jewish, “the attitude got worse”.
By Jenni Frazer and Lee Harpin
January 25, 2024, 4:10 pm
The ‘super’ rabbi who welcomes cruise ship passengers in St Lucia
Sun, sea, sand... and tefillin on the Caribbean island
By Mark Silver
Grzegorz Braun seen shortly after using a fire extinguisher on a Hanukkah menorah in Poland's parliament building in Warsaw, Dec. 12, 2023. JTA: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
December 13, 2023, 10:38 am
Far-right MP Grzegorz Braun shocks Polish parliament by using fire extinguisher on chanukiah
A rabbi described the scene to the Jewish Telegraph Agency as the Catholic church issued a statement apologising to “the entire Jewish community in Poland.”
By Gabe Friedman (JTA)
Bletchley Park Mansion. (Wikipedia/DeFacto)
December 8, 2023, 12:32 pm
Bletchley Park will light a nine-foot Menorah this Sunday
Public invited to witness historic Chanukah lighting at WWII code-breaking site that employed Jewish service men and women
By Stephen Oryszczuk
December 6, 2023, 6:00 pm
Mezuzah sales soar as Jews show pride in face of prejudice
Hundreds flock to buy the sacred symbol of Judaism as the community look for ways to reaffirm their Jewish identity
By Sandy Rashty
Angelina Jolie and Jon Voight have fallen out over Israel and Gaza
November 8, 2023, 3:45 pm
OPINION: Angelina Jolie and Jon Voight feud, while Gal Gadot shows Hamas film to Hollywood VIPs
Do we really need actors to pick a side in this war?
By Brigit Grant
Jedidiah Murphy wears a skull cap that was a gift from one of his supporters, Rabbi Yehuda Eber, in the death row unit at Polunsky prison in Livingston, Texas, Oct. 26, 2019. (Yehuda Eber)
October 6, 2023, 2:12 pm
Advocates for Jew on death row say hopes are dimming
Jedidiah Murphy killed 79-year-old Bertie Lee Cunningham during a carjacking in 2000 in Dallas County, Texas. He is due to die by lethal injection on Tuesday.
By Ron Kampeas (JTA)
Rabbi Israel Kozlovsky, director of Mumbai's Chabad center, looks out of a window of the center, in front of a wall pock-marked with bullet holes from the 2008 terror attack. (Ashish Vaishnav/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
August 1, 2023, 10:36 am
Terror suspects arrested in India had photos of Mumbai Chabad centre, police say
According to the Times of India, the two suspects are members of Sufa, an Islamist terror group.
By Ben Sales (JTA)
Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi provided the illustrations “For Our Freedom.” (Courtesy of Project Kesher)
March 30, 2023, 2:13 pm
First Haggadah in Ukrainian marks community’s break with Russia
Under the Russian empire, Jews living in what is now Ukraine in the 19th century tended to adopt Russian rather than Ukrainian, usually in addition to Yiddish.
By David I Klein (JTA)
Aish, India, 2023
March 23, 2023, 11:09 am
Aish UK kicks off its 30th anniversary with trip to India
Around 35 young professionals experience historical Jewish wonders from the Malabar Jews of Cochin to the Tiferet synagogue of the ancient Bene Israel community
By Michelle Rosenberg
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