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Assault Reported During Shabbat Services at Manhattan's Central Synagogue

46-year-old Larry Montes disrupted Shabbat services at Central Synagogue in Manhattan on August 14, punched a 63-year-old woman and attacked security. NYPD investigating as hate crime.

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Haredi Integration in IDF

600 Haredi Soldiers at Study Day

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Owner Doubles Down With Hateful Social Media Posts

Discrimination at animal park

Israeli Family Assaulted, Barred from Thailand Zoo; Owner Doubles Down With Hateful Social Media Posts

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Jewish ghetto in Rome

Antisemitic attacks escalate

Elderly Rabbi Attacked in Rome's Jewish Quarter

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Rabbi Sandler HYD, murdered in a terror attack

French Court Jails Two for Nazi Salute at Memorial to Toulouse Terror Victims

Two 19-year-olds received prison sentences for performing Nazi salutes outside a synagogue in Sarcelles, directly beneath a plaque commemorating victims of the 2012 Toulouse attack in which a teacher and three children were murdered

•Gila Isaacson, Kikar Hashabbat

World Jewish Congress Study: 81% of Reported Antisemitic Posts Remain on Social Media

WJC report finds major tech platforms fail to remove antisemitic hate speech. TikTok removes 64%; Facebook, Instagram, X under 15% removal rates.

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Faculty Antisemitism Reaches into College Classrooms, ADL Warns

ADL documents professors injecting anti-Israel activism into coursework, offering extra credit for protests, and singling out Jewish and Israeli students.

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Pro-Palestinian protesters at an encampment at UCLA

Irish Tourist Threatens Jewish Women in French Supermarket: "Hitler Should Have Finished the Job" | WATCH

Australian Jewish tourists recorded an Irish man making antisemitic threats in a French supermarket, including references to Hitler and a threat to shoot them

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'Paddy from Ireland'

Hunter Biden tells Tucker Carlson: Israel Put Illicit Material on My Laptop

In interview with far-right podcaster Tucker Carlson, son of former President Joe Biden claims Israeli intelligence planted incriminating content on his computer

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Hunter Biden
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Thousands of Yeshiva Students Gather in Beit Shemesh for Pre-Elul Rally

Leading rabbis addressed tens of thousands of yeshiva students at a mass gathering in Beit Shemesh, urging continued Torah study despite military draft pressures as the new semester approaches

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Thousands of Yeshiva Students Gather in Beit Shemesh for Pre-Elul Rally

Tosh Hasidim Mark Anniversary of Rebbe's Passing in Canada | PHOTO ESSAY

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Tosh Hillula

Lod's "Kosher Electricity" Project Clears Major Hurdle After Two-Year Delay

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Electricity poles

Ger and Vizhnitz Rebbes Appear Together at Major Torah Gathering in Jerusalem

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כינוס חסידי ויז'ניץ

Agudat Yisrael Challenges Ban on Voter Tracking, Says It Invented the System 40 Years Ago

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Goldknopf votes

Satmar Rebbe Announces Massive Housing Initiative and Warns Against Real Estate Fraud | PHOTO ESSAY

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Senior Vizhnitz Rabbi Arrives in Israel Ahead of Major Hasidic Gathering

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Tomb of the Prophet Samuel

Where Is the Prophet Samuel Really Buried? New Evidence Challenges Old Tradition

A newly revealed 18th-century letter from a revered Hasidic leader describes seeing Samuel's tomb south of Bethlehem, not at the traditional site north of Jerusalem

•Ariel Sharfer, Kikar Hashabat

Nazi Soldiers' Skeletons Found on Motorcycle in Danube River

Severe drought in Budapest exposes WWII-era motorcycle with two German soldiers' remains and intact identification tags after 80 years underwater

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Nazi Soldiers' Skeletons Found on Motorcycle in Danube River

20 Years Later: Survivors Recall the Night Hezbollah Struck INS Hanit | WATCH

Crew members of the Israeli Navy corvette recount the June 2006 missile strike that killed four sailors and nearly sank the ship during the Second Lebanon War.

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INS Hanit

The Third Temple Built From Tears: Tracing a Popular Song's Mystical Origins

When seminary heads asked Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky about the source of the famous lyric claiming the Third Temple will be built from tears rather than stones, he said no such midrash exists—but kabbalistic sources tell a different story

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Rare 1969 Footage Shows Yeshivat HaKotel Students' Weekly March to Western Wall

Newly surfaced film from 1969 captures Rabbi Yeshayahu Hadari leading his students in a tradition that continues today—walking to the Western Wall every Friday evening while singing and dancing

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Going to the Kotel in 1969