A group consisting of about 150 Orthodox Jews were traveling to Hungary on the evening of May 4 for the yahrtzeit (anniversary of his passing) of Reb Shayala of Kerestir and refused boarding on their connecting Lufthansa flight in Frankfurt. The chilling reason why? “It’s Jews from JFK.” According to Dan’s Deals, Lufthansa informed “the group […]

Imagine a video that explores antisemitism, but erases Orthodox Jewish and Zionist experiences (the two most attacked categories of the Jewish people right now) from the conversation. You don’t have to imagine. Jubilee, the popular YouTube channel, published a 52 minute episode on Passover eve on this topic with these holes. I briefly appeared in the […]

Pesach is one of the most joyful times in the Jewish calendar, but historically it has also been blood libel season, when Jewish communities around the globe were accused of murder in the name of using the blood of Christian children to make matzos. While blatantly untrue, this falsehood has persisted for centuries and in […]

Anti-Semitic attacks have nearly quadrupled this year in NYC alone, according to NYPD crime statistics. Throughout the month of January 15 different attacks were reported in contrast with the year before which had four reported attacks in the same month. Now, 81 have been reported as of March 27, a huge increase from 20 at […]

Closed circuit television footage showed a 9-year-old Orthodox Jewish boy from Stamford Hill, London being picked up and then carried off by a gang. The boy had been returning home from school just after dark when the abduction took place. Although the distressed boy was later released by the gang, but not before the trauma […]