Judaism

Yes, they really asked Josh Shapiro if he’s an Israeli spy - comment

What they asked Josh Shapiro during VP vetting reveals everything about how Jews are treated in America.

|ByZVIKA KLEIN
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks during the a campaign kickoff rally earlier this month.
Beth Israel Congregation hosts Shabbat services at the Northminster Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi, on Jan. 16, 2026.

‘We are not made of wood and paper’: Jackson synagogue marks first Shabbat after arson

"We will not only survive, we will thrive,” the congregation’s student rabbi and spiritual leader, Benjamin Russell, told his community, draped in the only surviving tallit that survived the fire.

|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Every generation must be taught that 'never again' is not just a slogan - opinion

The Holocaust didn’t start with gas chambers; it is important to remember that it began with words.

|ByABE HAMADEH
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Terrorists use social media to slander; let’s not do the same - opinion

The method represents something far more dangerous than a single smear campaign. It’s a weaponized assault on truth itself.

|ByRAPHAEL POCH

American Jewry must stop centering its identity on Israel’s critics - opinion

American Jewish leaders risk losing a generation by centering its identity on Israel’s critics.

JANUARY 17, 2026ByGIL TROY
American and Israeli Jews [Illustrative]

When Jewish athletes dominated Polish sport: A lost legacy

From soccer to fencing, Jewish athletes once dominated Polish sports, and now their story is being told in Ramat Gan.

JANUARY 17, 2026ByBARRY DAVIS
The Maccabi Krakow ice hockey team in full flow during a game in 1934.

This week in Jewish history: Nobel prize winners, biochemists, and the Baba Sali

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

JANUARY 17, 2026BySTEVEN DRUCKER
Baba Baruch, heir of Baba Sali, speaks to prime minister Yitzhak Shamir during traditional ceremonies in Netivot, 1988.

The high price of not listening: What Pharaoh teaches us about power and humility

Pharaoh ignored every warning until his nation collapsed. His mistake isn’t ancient, it’s painfully familiar today.

JANUARY 17, 2026ByMOSHE TARAGIN
Statue of a mans head wearing headphones.

What a German-Jewish scholar can tell us about pro-Mamdani Jews today

DIASPORA AFFAIRS: The parallels between 1920s Munich and New York (and other places around the US and the world) are glaringly obvious and ominous.

JANUARY 16, 2026ByHANNAH BROWN
‘WHAT I do think is highly likely is that Jews who are “visibly Jewish” will be the ones to pay the price for the normalization of antisemitism and the demonization of Zionism in New York.’ Here, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani attends a news conference at NYPD headquarters earlier this month.

Shabbat candle lighting times for Israel and US

See Shabbat times for your area.

JANUARY 16, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Shabbat candles

Parashat Va’era: Why being good is the secret strength we forget

Why does Moses step aside for Aaron during the first plagues? The answer reveals a profound Torah teaching about humility and gratitude.

JANUARY 16, 2026ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
Parsha.

Editor's Notes: Future of Jewish Diaspora should follow spirit of 'October 8 Jewry'

For world Jewry, October 7, 2023, was that violent intrusion. The worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. What followed on October 8 was something nobody predicted: a mass awakening.

JANUARY 16, 2026ByZVIKA KLEIN
‘WHAT ARE the effects, in Israel, in the US, and the rest of the world, of the perceived opinions of American Jewry?’

'The struggle that Israel faces is increasingly the battle for hearts and minds of the world'

Opening the Jerusalem Post Miami Summit, Rabbi Zalman Lipskar honored his father’s vision while calling on world Jewry to embrace pride, responsibility, and partnership with Israel.

JANUARY 15, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rabbi Zalman Lipsker, Rabbi and spirtual leader of the Shul

The war in Israel is in a lull, but Jewish soldiers are still fighting in Ukraine

Chernetsky says he continued fighting so that no one would say that Jews didn't fight.

JANUARY 15, 2026ByMICHAEL STARR
One of the Jewish soldiers fighting in Ukraine.

Conservative Judaism’s new line on intermarriage is a great start. What comes next is key - opinion

Belonging is not declared. It is rebuilt and demonstrated, slowly, through consistency, humility, and courage. If the movement is willing to do that work, genuine repair is possible.

JANUARY 15, 2026ByADAM POLLACK / JTA
Conservative Judaism has been trying to chart a middle path between Jewish tradition and acceptance of the reality of interfaith families.