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Jewish schoolchildren at Athénée Ganenou in Brussels await the arrival of President Isaac Herzog, January 25, 2023. (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
June 9, 2025, 7:25 pm
Muslims are world’s fastest-growing religious group; Jews far below pre-Holocaust numbers
Demographer Sergio DellaPergola says it will take another 10 to 20 years for world Jewry to fully regain 1930s level, predicts most Jews will live in Israel within next decade
By Rossella Tercatin
Illustrative: The Oklahoma Supreme Court is pictured in the state Capitol building in Oklahoma City, May 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
February 17, 2025, 4:08 am
A US Supreme Court case could pave the way for publicly funded Jewish day schools
A ruling on religious charter schools in Oklahoma could make education a lot cheaper for many American Orthodox Jews while opening up new options across the religious spectrum
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Director David Mamet at the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, August 17, 2024. (David Chen)
August 18, 2024, 5:53 pm
David Mamet in Tel Aviv: ‘Assimilated US Jews gave up the Torah for The New York Times’
Writer-director visits Israel ahead of the launch of his latest film, ‘Henry Johnson,’ and Broadway run of ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’
By James Inverne
Barbie doll creator Ruth Handler, left, gets a kiss from Kristi Cooke, an actress dressed as a Barbie doll, during the 35th birthday celebration for the doll at FAO Schwarz in New York City on March 9, 1994. (AP Photo/Robert Clark)
June 6, 2023, 3:24 am
Way before icon Barbie got the Hollywood treatment, she was ‘born’ with Jewish roots
From her creation by unconventional entrepreneur Ruth Handler to her inclusivity and ability to adapt with the times, the famous doll bears some trademarks of the Tribe
By Cathryn J. Prince
Far-right activist and Lehava member Or Liebler. (Screenshot/Twitter via Channel 13)
February 21, 2022, 8:43 pm
Far-right Jewish extremist discovers her biological parents are Muslim
Or Leibler, a member of a Jewish supremacist group who describes herself as a ‘proud Jew,’ forced to reevaluate beliefs after making unexpected discovery
By Tobias Siegal
Police forces operate in the northern town of Kamanneh following a suspected hate crime, on April 9, 2021. (Israel Police Spokesperson)
April 9, 2021, 12:38 pm
‘End assimilation’: Dozens of cars vandalized, wall graffitied in Arab town
Tires on some 20 vehicles slashed in Kamanneh, a Bedouin village near Karmiel; police open investigation into apparent hate crime
By Emanuel Fabian
Gal Gadot poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Ralph Breaks the Internet' in central London, November 25, 2018. (Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)
December 25, 2019, 8:38 pm
Gal Gadot to co-produce movie on Israeli-Palestinian love story
Film is based on Israeli book that was excluded from high school educational curriculum for ‘threatening Jewish identity’
By ToI Staff
Rafi Peretz, head of the Union of Right-Wing Parties, holds a press conference after meeting with President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem, April 16, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
July 16, 2019, 7:54 pm
Minister: I didn’t mean to hurt world Jewry with Holocaust intermarriage remark
Rafi Peretz tells Jewish Agency chief his comment lamenting intermarriage rates ‘probably was not proper,’ says he respects Diaspora Jews
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image: Marc Mezvinsky and Chelsea Clinton combined Jewish and Methodist traditions during their wedding ceremony on July 31, 2010. (Genevieve de Manio, via JTA)
July 12, 2019, 3:46 pm
When American Jews described their own intermarriage as a ‘Second Holocaust’
Nearly 30 years ago, reports of a 52% interfaith household rate had some US Jewish leaders denouncing ‘assimilation’ as silently completing Hitler’s work
By Matt Lebovic
Education Minister Rafi Peretz arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on June 30, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 9, 2019, 11:53 pm
Israel’s education minister: Intermarriage among US Jews ‘like second Holocaust’
ADL chief says Rafi Peretz’s remark ‘trivializes the Shoah’; Israel-Diaspora activist group calls Israeli discourse about US Jews ‘irresponsible and disrespectful’
By JTA and ToI Staff
Nefesh B'Nefesh Mega Aliyah Event, Teaneck, New Jersey, 10 March, 2019 (Shahar Azran)
March 14, 2019, 5:05 pm
At NJ fair, rise in anti-Semitism in the mix when deciding to move to Israel
Idealism and family are the main reasons cited by potential immigrants considering immigration to the Jewish State. But increasing concerns about public Jew-hatred loom
By Naomi Lanzkron
The Maccabees, as depicted by the Polish artist Wojciech Stattler (1800–1875) (Public domain via Wikimedia Commons)
December 6, 2018, 2:12 am
Were the Maccabees religious extremists? Experts say it’s modern-day spin
The Hannukah heroes’ militarism may not sit well with American Jewish dovishness, but their extreme actions should be considered in the context of their time, scholars argue
By Ben Sales
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid leads a party faction meeting at the Knesset on December 26, 2016. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 14, 2018, 6:56 pm
Lapid slams harsh rap of TV stars’ interfaith marriage, but says he opposes it
Citing the loss of Jews during the Holocaust, self-styled leader of Israel’s secular mainstream says he would ‘rather the Jewish people grow and not decrease’
By Raoul Wootliff
Reshet news anchor Lucy Aharish and 'Fauda' actor Tsahi Halevi at their secret wedding on October 10, 2018. (screen capture: Channel 10)
October 11, 2018, 11:30 am
Jewish ‘Fauda’ star’s marriage to Muslim newswoman gets condemnations from right
Interior minister warns that children of Lucy Aharish and Tsahi Halevi will face ‘serious problems,’ urges her to convert; MK Oren Hazan talks of Aharish ‘seducing a Jewish soul’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Demonstrators at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport protest US President Donald Trump’s executive order imposing a freeze on admitting refugees from certain countries into the United States, January 29, 2017. (Scott Olson/Getty Images via JTA)
July 13, 2018, 1:08 am
An author predicts Diaspora Jewry’s death, at the hands of Tikkun Olam liberals
Lambasting progressive Jewry as inauthentic at best, Jonathan Neumann writes that ‘American Judaism is broken because the Jewish Left broke it’
By Matt Lebovic
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