The Jewish Calendar: Sanctifying Time in a Fractured World

Time doesn’t always move the way we expect it to. Sometimes it blurs — with days stretching endlessly, their differences erased. Sometimes, everything happens at once, compressing joy and grief, memory and urgency, into a single, overwhelming present. …

Mark Carney elected Canadian prime minister after unusual race that split Jewish voters

Canada voted to keep Prime Minister Mark Carney in his seat Monday night after a stunning election that saw many voters swing to the Liberal Party amid fears over U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and looming threats to make the country the “51st state …

Karin Prien set to be Germany's 1st Jewish minister since Nazis

Karin Prien, currently the education minister for the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, is set to be appointed Germany's federal minister of education, Family, Women, and Youth under the future government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The appointment …

Editorial: Jewish Australian’s feel unsafe, courage is missing as hatred takes hold

300 Pastors, Rabbis, and Faith Leaders Unite to Rally Support for Israel and Jewish People in Congress

300 Pastors, Rabbis, and Faith Leaders Unite to Rally Support for Israel and Jewish People in Congress from Monday, May 5, through Wednesday, May 7, 2025. WASHINGTON, DC, DC, UNITED STATES, April 29, 2025 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Three hundred …

Heavy police presence blocks anti-Israel protest in Brooklyn from reaching Jewish neighborhood

Police block pro-Palestinian supporters from entering a neighborhood with a large Orthodox Jewish population on April 28, 2025, in Brooklyn. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) By Joseph Strauss April 29, 2025 (New York Jewish Week) — An anti-Zionist …

Abbas: According to Quran, Jewish Temple stood in Yemen

(April 29, 2025 / JNS) Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas claimed last week that in the Quran, the Jewish Temple is described as being in Yemen. “In the Noble Quran—and I believe that also in other divine books—it says that the [First and …

Syria launches investigation after vandalism of prominent Jewish mystic’s tomb

The Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States, an umbrella group representing Jewish religious leaders across Muslim-majority countries, issued a strong condemnation of what they called an “attack on shared human heritage. 2 View gallery (Photo: from social …

Opinion: Trump doesn’t want to protect all Jewish students — just those on his team

On April 29, 2024, Tess Segal, a 20-year-old sophomore at the University of Florida, joined her fellow activists at a prominent plaza on campus calling on the university to divest from weapons manufacturers and boycott academic institutions in Israel. Some …

80 years after the Holocaust: Germany nominates female minister with Jewish roots

Thorsten Frei, Karin Prien, and Johann Wadephul at the meeting of the Federal Committee of the CDU of Germany at the Estrel Berlin. Berlin, April 28, 2025. (Photo: Reuters) On Monday, 60-year-old German politician Karin Prien was named the next Education …