Features
Jewish communities grapple with addiction as fentanyl crisis ravages US
New York yeshiva asks transgender teacher to leave amid uproar over her identity
Holyland Market, New York’s own Israeli mini-mart, closing its doors after 18 years
Survivor who married her pre-war flame 50 years after Auschwitz turns 100 in NY
Texan who posed as Hasidic Jew and adopted 9 boys charged with sexually abusing kids
New York law on Nazi-looted art aims to shine light on lesser-known Holocaust evil
UN Palestinian rights official’s social media history reveals antisemitic comments
The mom who beat the odds, and the bureaucrats, to become Israel’s top runner
How did 12 Jewish New Yorkers end up vacationing in Syria?
Synagogue group helps Afghan family flee Taliban, reunite with relatives in New York
Juggling Child Care, Other People’s Big Families and Toxic Chemicals
For many Holocaust survivors, effects of wartime starvation still a plague
Die Antwoord brings fun, weirdness, defiance to a bleak Tel Aviv night
Seeking converts, Christian missionaries pitch Yiddish Bibles to NY ultra-Orthodox
In south Tel Aviv, a different kind of festival of lights
Science and business
Headed for a sixth mass extinction? MIT geophysicist warns oceans are on the brink
US researchers work to trace mystery uranium cubes back to Nazi nuclear program
Upending wisdom, Stone Age pre-humans traveled Mediterranean 200,000 years ago
In pioneering study, Israeli researchers target autism with cannabis
Mysterious, massive stone monuments in Arabia some of world’s oldest, study says
Researchers rediscover fast-acting insecticide used by Nazi army, lost after war
Israeli restaurateurs in New York confident they will survive a bleak winter
14 of 16 severe COVID patients in trial recover with experimental Israeli drug
Politics and news
In Monsey after Hanukkah terror stabbing, fear and then an insistent celebration
White House’s Lebanon success, Iran failure on display during Herzog visit
New York pro-Palestinian activist pleads guilty to hate crimes for 3 attacks on Jews
Netanyahu, Bennett trade fire in battle for right-wing voters
Democrats To Force Vote on Expelling Santos, Making Republicans Take a Side
Three more members of Lev Tahor cult sentenced over 2018 kidnapping
In US federal court, student charges Yeshiva University with covering up rape case
Republican challenger Zeldin rallies Haredi voters in New York governor’s race
Turnout, fate of small parties crucial as polls open for 6.5 million Israelis
Speaking appearances
Podcast: Yiddish New Testament; virtual Chabad house; good COVID news
Podcast: A shooting at a Jewish school and Jamie Foxx’s ‘they killed Jesus’ comments
Podcast: A UN investigator’s biased social media; World Cup lessons
Podcast: Yeshiva U v. YU Pride Alliance