The nephew of popular TikTok creator My Orthodox Jewish Life, also known as Melinda Strauss, was subjected to horrific antisemitic comments when a video was posted of him wrapping tefillin. The video was viewed nearly 11 million times and the antisemitic comments it inspired are prevalent among the 14,300 comments on the video. Strauss’ nephew […]

46-year-old father of eight Rabbi Zeev Katzenelnbogen was finishing davening the morning prayers Sunday morning when a terrorist opened fire at the Kotel. Still wearing his tallis and tefillin, Katzenelnbogen “got a really strong pain in the arm right at the spot of the tefillin,” he said. He realized that he was in the middle […]

After video footage was released of football (soccer) fans harassing an Orthodox Jewish man with antisemitic chants aboard a flight to Belgium, the fans were arrested on account of committing a hate crime. Essex police had launched an investigation which revealed supporters of the West Ham Football Club on their way to Belgium to watch […]

Two Brooklyn Orthodox Jews were attacked unprovoked this week in horrific incidents which the NYPD are investigating as hate crimes. In the first assault, a 23-year-old man was shot in the head with a BB pellet in a caught-on-camera drive-by shooting. He was seen on camera clutching his face and stumbling to the sidewalk. He […]

Jews in Belgium have been feeling less and less welcome in their home country, as the ritual slaughter ban which prohibits shechita, imperative to the making of kosher meat, has been upheld by the highest court in the country. While the law from 2017 makes the creation of kosher (and halal) meat illegal in the […]

Police are actively searching for a person who was seen dousing gasoline on the Yeshivah of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School building last night. The gas fueled a fire set by the arsonist, who was seen pouring gas on a fenced-off area. The suspect lit the fire before fleeing the school campus. While the fire, […]