Will flooding force Kherson's last Jews to leave? By JTA Jun 9, 2023 (JTA) — Intense flooding caused by the collapse of the Kakhovka dam in eastern Ukraine is threatening to force most of the remaining 600-700 Jews in the Kherson area to leave, according to the city’s chief rabbi. Rabbi Yosef Wolff told the Times of Israel that about 80% of the region’s Jews had already left before… Read More
World State Department calls recent Roger Waters concert ‘antisemitic’ (JTA) — The U.S. State Department has condemned Roger Waters, calling the former Pink Floyd frontman’s recent concert in Berlin “antisemitic.” A reporter… By Gabe Friedman Jun 8, 2023
Travel Israelis flock to tiny Peruvian town for vacation and psychedelics PISAC, Peru (JTA) — About 20 miles northeast of the tourist capital of Cusco, the small Peruvian town of Pisac sits nestled among the verdant Andes… By Jacob Kessler May 31, 2023
World Alliance of Orthodox rabbis calls for release of Evan Gershkovich (JTA) — An umbrella association of American Orthodox rabbis is calling on the Russian government to release Evan Gershkovich, the imprisoned Jewish… By Ben Sales May 30, 2023
Bay Area Bay Area leaders join one of the last flights of Ethiopians to Israel As she exited a chartered flight that had taken her from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Tel Aviv, Joy Sisisky found herself holding a stranger’s luggage. The… By Emma Goss May 25, 2023
World Condoms and tikkun olam: Orthodox Jew aids Prague sex workers PRAGUE (JTA) — Not long after she puts away her silver Shabbat candlesticks and home-baked challah, Yael Schoultz walks through a cavernous hallway, and… By Dinah Spritzer May 25, 2023
Bay Area A Peninsula synagogue is sending vital aid to Ukrainian Jews In the dark winter months following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, residents of the port city of Odesa had electricity for just two hours a day,… By Sue Fishkoff May 23, 2023
World Russia extends pretrial detention of journalist Evan Gershkovich (JTA) — A Russian court extended the pretrial detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich until at least Aug. 30. Gershkovich, 31, the… By Jackie Hajdenberg May 23, 2023
Tech Wikipedia disciplines editors but sidesteps Polish Holocaust debate (JTA) — Wikipedia has banned three editors from working on articles related to Jewish history in Poland during World War II, in a bid to resolve editing… By Asaf Elia-Shalev May 23, 2023