Features
Jewish communities grapple with addiction as fentanyl crisis ravages US
New York yeshiva asks transgender teacher to leave amid uproar over her identity
NY’s rural 120-year-old ‘Peddlers’ Synagogue’ charts new path — without a congregation
Holyland Market, New York’s own Israeli mini-mart, closing its doors after 18 years
Survivor who married her pre-war flame 50 years after Auschwitz turns 100 in NY
The mom who beat the odds, and the bureaucrats, to become Israel’s top runner
Texan who posed as Hasidic Jew and adopted 9 boys charged with sexually abusing kids
New York law on Nazi-looted art aims to shine light on lesser-known Holocaust evil
UN Palestinian rights official’s social media history reveals antisemitic comments
Synagogue group helps Afghan family flee Taliban, reunite with relatives in New York
How did 12 Jewish New Yorkers end up vacationing in Syria?
For many Holocaust survivors, effects of wartime starvation still a plague
Die Antwoord brings fun, weirdness, defiance to a bleak Tel Aviv night
Seeking converts, Christian missionaries pitch Yiddish Bibles to NY ultra-Orthodox
In south Tel Aviv, a different kind of festival of lights
Politics and news
Jews in Washington voice their sorrow, fear and anger after deadly shooting
In Monsey after Hanukkah terror stabbing, fear and then an insistent celebration
White House’s Lebanon success, Iran failure on display during Herzog visit
Netanyahu, Bennett trade fire in battle for right-wing voters
Science and business
Headed for a sixth mass extinction? MIT geophysicist warns oceans are on the brink
US researchers work to trace mystery uranium cubes back to Nazi nuclear program
Upending wisdom, Stone Age pre-humans traveled Mediterranean 200,000 years ago
Researchers rediscover fast-acting insecticide used by Nazi army, lost after war
In pioneering study, Israeli researchers target autism with cannabis
Mysterious, massive stone monuments in Arabia some of world’s oldest, study says
Israeli restaurateurs in New York confident they will survive a bleak winter
Speaking appearances
Final Columbia antisemitism report reveals classroom aggressions
Day 782 - NY Jews' mayoral fears realized at synagogue protest. What now?
Day 817 - Mamdani to become NYC mayor as apple drops in Times Square
Podcast: Yiddish New Testament; virtual Chabad house; good COVID news
Podcast: A shooting at a Jewish school and Jamie Foxx’s ‘they killed Jesus’ comments
Podcast: A UN investigator’s biased social media; World Cup lessons
Podcast: Yeshiva U v. YU Pride Alliance