Expert says Grand Jury tainted with negative attitudes about Jews NEW YORK NY — Prominent Jewish leaders expressed concern over the dismissal of religious bias claims occurring in the grand jury proceedings against Sholom Rubashkin. In a hearing last month, lawyers for Mr. Rubashkin argued tha...

Jews need reassurance right now that the agenda represented by the renewed civil liberties movement in Britain is for them, writes Keith Kahn-Harris. They represent a powerful resource for change, but fear is holding them back....

By Steve Bagley for the GateHouse News Service BROOKLINE, MA — A 26-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y., man is headed to court after allegedly attempting to scam a Newton synagogue out of money and stealing a Brookline storekeeperÂ’s iPhone. The man was part of a group of six men dressed as Orthodox Jews...

By Yair Ettinger for Haaretz JERUSALEM — Senior Sephardic rabbis issued a religious ruling calling on observant Jews to limit spending on mishloach manot, traditional gift baskets given to friends and family during the Purim holiday next week. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and the Council of Torah Sages ...

By Zalman Nelson for Lubavitch.com Rabbi Yossef Wolff, Chief Rabbi of Kherson, Ukraine KHERSON, Ukraine — City council member Sergey KirichenkoÂ’s bid to replace KhersonÂ’s Jewish mayor has turned into a wild anti-Semitic incitement campaign, blaming Jews for the countryÂ’s economic downturn a...

French police search for clues at the Jewish cemetery in eastern France where 127 graves were scrawled with swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans. - Stock Photo NEW YORK, NY [ADL] — A new survey of seven countries across Europe shows millions continue to believe the classical anti-Semitic canards...

Stock Photo - Kosherfest CHICAGO, IL — Christians, Muslims, Jews and Atheists alike are helping fuel the robust market for kosher foods, according to a new report by market research firm Mintel. In a consumer survey of adults who purchase kosher food, Mintel found that the number one reason pe...

CARACAS, Venezuela [AP] — An armed group vandalized Caracas' oldest synagogue, shattering religious objects and spray-painting walls in what Jewish leaders called the worst attack ever on their community in Venezuela. Two security guards were overpowered by about 15 people who ransacked the sy...

By Lana Gersten for the Forward BROOKLYN, NY — Tucked amid the shops on a busy street in Brooklyn, the Center for Kosher Culinary Arts is at first hard to find. The one-room school, located on the second floor of a housewares store, is small and unimposing. Despite its humble appearance, the c...

By Sarah Zadok Contrasting messages on a hastily-installed sewage pipe-cum-bomb shelter in Nitzan encapsulate the spirit of families removed from their Gaza Strip homes in 2006. Two words on the right translate to: “We told you.” On the left is a quote from the 23rd Psalm: “I will fear no evil, f...