The Jewish Star

Can they really be comfortable with Vance?

The last thing Jewish Republicans want is to find themselves in the same predicament as their Democratic counterparts. And if it means accepting…

98-year-old survivor: Hatred won’t define you

As Jewish students around the world begin a new academic year amid heightened antisemitism, a 98-year-old Holocaust survivor is urging them to s…

Safety fears must not ‘overwhelm’ our holidays

When he faced Mayor Zohran Mamdani at a closed-door meeting with other Jewish New York spiritual leaders in early August, Rick Jacobs told the m…

Mamdani visit to Eichler’s sparks a firestorm

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s visit to Eichler’s Judaica store in Borough Park last week was an “embarrassment” that allowed him to portray himself as…

Azerbaijan’s Jewish story in three alphabets

In a small museum in northern Azerbaijan sit two objects that tell a surprisingly long story. They are a pair of tefillin so tiny that the black…

Air-conditioners hot and bother the Jew-haters

Know what I did the other day? Brace yourself. I went to the supermarket. I shopped for yogurt and bread, veggies and snack foods for my family.…

There’s an Israel paradox in thinking of Finland

A quiet story out of Finland last week deserves more attention than it received. The country’s public broadcaster Yle reported that in 2024, in…

Charedim urge Trump: Be an Israeli buttinsky

This past Thursday, several leading chassidic Rebbes, along with R. Malkiel Kotler of BMG Lakewood, met with President Trump. The chassidic rebb…

Now the Jews are expected to commit suicide

In the space of one month, Dana Nessel, Michigan’s Democratic attorney general, has issued two extraordinary statements with profound implicatio…

Rosh Hashana reflections on divine kingship

This period of the year demands two kinds of spiritual commitment. The first is charatah, regret: an honest inner search of our past year’s beha…

Trump has historic meeting with Hasidic leaders

The Trump administration hosted a historic gathering of leaders of major Hasidic communities on Thursday, drawing controversy because several of…

Denmark faces Islamism integration

Imam Mundhir Abdallah is a good example of the dilemma facing Danish politicians when they respond to extremism among the country’s 300,000 Musl…

Must Jews, Poles keep fighting about Shoah?

It’s never wise to get into an argument about the Holocaust with Yad Vashem. That’s the moral of the story of Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempt to re…

Considering Poland: Who owns the Holocaust?

Who owns the Holocaust? That, ultimately, is the key question posed by the impending legislation in Poland that will criminalize any discussion,…

It’s not what’s lost, but what’s to be achieved

S he was the Other Doctor of Auschwitz and I recently read a story about her in Yitta Halberstam’s small miracles series. A young woman (we’ll c…