JERUSALEM (Press Release)– WebYeshiva.org, an interactive online Torah studies program, has announced that the “virtual” Yeshiva will become “live” with Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Chaim Brovender, traveling to remote northern Swiecie, Poland to be with one of his online students. WebYeshiva.org will offer a day of free Torah courses on Sunday,m January 23, that will be […]

NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) welcomed the vote of the board of directors of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) to permanently “retire” the Helen Thomas Award for Lifetime Achievement. The award will be retired with Thomas’s name attached, meaning no lifetime achievement award will be given in the future, according to the

MONTREAL, Canada (WJC) — Police are investigating a series of attacks by vandals on five Jewish institutions. Windows were broken at three synagogues and at a Jewish school and a kindergarten. The attackers struck at the different sites between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. on Sunday morning, and the attacks are believed to be linked. “In

TOURS, France  (WJC)–Marine Le Pen has been elected as leader of the extreme-right and xenophobic National Front (FN) movement, succeeding her father Jean-Marie. In his farewell speech, Jean-Marie Le Pen, 82, made a new public anti-Semitic slur when suggesting that Jews were crying wolf, unduly claiming to be victims of anti-Semitism. He was referring to

Netanyahu – Military Option Against Iran on the Table * NEW YORK (WJC)–The US and Israel jointly developed of the Stuxnet computer worm which did great damage to Iran’s nuclear facilities, the ‘New York Times’ newspaper reports.  Stuxnet selectively infects industrial control (SCADA) systems made by the German manufacturer Siemens, establishing a backdoor that creates