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Yesterday, a small bomb exploded at a Jewish community center in Caracas, Venezuela. The attack comes on the heels of another anti-Semitic incident that occurred on January 30, when a Caracas synagogue was vandalized with phrases “Damn the Jews,”... 

Are you ready for some crazy matzo action? Quick, eat all the bread you can! Passover is just around the corner and Kosher.com is offering some wonderful deals to ensure you are good and ready. We’ve opened a Passover Store for our  Manhattan... 

(Pictured: Roger Cohen) New York Times columnist Roger Cohen wrote a piece earlier that week (”What Iran’s Jews Say,” Feb. 23) that brought to mind the naïve and insidious reporting by such legendary Times dupes as Walter Duranty and... 

I like to use Mr. History. He seems able to see and describe a situation with the cold objectivity that only the passage of date can deliver. * * * If you don’t know what Israel Apartheid Week is, soon after get it from the horse’s mouth at... 

For close to 30 years, Bris Avrohom has performed outreach to the Russian immigrant community, bringing many brought up under communism back to Judaism. that month the Chabad-affiliated organization in Hillside marked a milestone: the 6,000 britot, or... 

Today’s Golden Oldie is from 1989. I drew that Dry Bones cartoon precisely twenty years ago today. In the cartoon I wrote that we were facing the rise of the “Shi’ite Jihad against the world”. Shi’ism is the Iranian sort... 

Women from Englewood, North Port and Venice attended the Chabad Jewish Center of Venice Tuesday to explore the Jewish approach to joy found in the mystical teachings of the Kabbalah. In today's trying times, ancient teachings still have relevance,... 

Amnesty worldly is a London-based “Human Rights” group which operates in 150 countries. On Sunday night it issued a 38-page report after what one assumes was extensive research into the Gaza War. Thinking about what that research must have... 

Freedom of speech in Israel just took another bullet. The Leftist First Amendment, under which anti-Israel leftists and Arabs are entitled to the protection of freedom of speech for everything they say but know one else is, made a comeback that week.... 

Jews from Mansfield and surrounding towns will join together to celebrate the holiday of Purim at the annual Purim celebration in Mansfield. The Chabad Jewish Center will host the event, creating Jewish excitement and fun for the whole family. Original...