The last Shabbat in Mumbai

Rabbi Moishe Silverman stood taking inventory of a meat freezer at South Florida Kosher, the supermarket and butcher shop where he works. Dressed in a yarmulke and tie and wearing a plastic apron over his white butcher jacket, he surveyed the piled boxes of chicken and beef.

Customers stew as kosher meat becomes rare

Rabbi Moishe Silverman stood taking inventory of a meat freezer at South Florida Kosher, the supermarket and butcher shop where he works. Dressed in a yarmulke and tie and wearing a plastic apron over his white butcher jacket, he surveyed the piled boxes of chicken and beef.

Holocaust survivor meets her Polish savior after 60 years

During World War II, the Sozanska family gave shelter to Rozia Rothshild and her family, hiding them from the Nazis. Sixty years later, Rozia reunites with Wiktoria Sozanska for the first time. 'Her bravery is what has allowed me to live and build a wonderful family of my own,' she says

Member of Subbotnik community appeals to make aliya

The High Court of Justice will hold a hearing on a petition Thursday that could have ramifications for 20,000 Russians whose Jewish status is being questioned by the State of Israel.

OU delegation petitions Barkat against dividing J'lem

A delegation of American Jews from the New York-based Orthodox Union presented Jerusalem Mayor-elect Nir Barkat Wednesday with a petition against any future division of Jerusalem as part of a peace agreement with the Palestinians.

Germany to pursue Holocaust denier's arrest

After British court rules against extradition of Australian Gerald Fredrick Toben, German state prosecutor says 'we will continue to attempt to have him arrested in other countries'

US: Child sex abuse claims divide Orthodox community

Initiatives encouraging victims to come forward or offering support for those claiming they were molested encounter strong opposition, lead to death-threats in Orthodox community

Want to make it to 120? Then get to shul once a week

Maybe it's providence or God's way of saying thank you, and maybe it's the relaxed ambience at houses of prayer, but mosques, churches, synagogues and shrines apparently keep the angel of death away.

Chief rabbis declare day of prayers on economic crisis

Rabbis urge people to pray, repent and give charity on Thursday, as way to battle implications of global financial meltdown

Conversion must be taken out of haredi hands, officials say

The three Israeli officials most involved in relations with the Diaspora called on Wednesday to remove the country's conversion process from the "hands of the haredim."

Jewish Republican Eric Cantor elected party whip

Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor won his race to become the new minority whip Wednesday, becoming the second-ranking Republican in the US House of Representatives.

Bridging the Muslim-Jewish divide

There was nothing unusual about some 20 devout Muslims from the King Fahad Mosque bowing and prostrating themselves as they recited the Isha, or night prayer.

Jewish Agency calls for 'independent' conversion authority

The Jewish Agency Assembly called on the government on Sunday to create an "independent" authority dealing with conversion, removing responsibility for conversions from the Prime Minister's Office.

10 new conversion judges await A-G's OK

A committee headed by Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar appointed 10 new conversion court judges during a meeting on Sunday in the chief rabbi's office. The appointees await the approval of the attorney general, who will decide whether civil service appointments can be made ahead of national elections.

The affair stirring up Bnei Brak

Beautiful divorcee threatens to tell local Hasid's wife of their affair if he fails to pay her NIS 350,000

European haredim unfazed by 'loss' of Jerusalem

The Orthodox rabbinic leadership of Europe, meeting in Prague at a summit of the Conference of European Rabbis, took the haredi loss of the mayoralty of Jerusalem in stride Wednesday.

Day of prayer for philanthropists organized amid financial crisis

Leaders of Israel's largest religious seminaries have designated a day of prayer for the financial health of Jewish philanthropists.

Gov't approves aliya of some 150 Bnei Menashe from India

The Interior Ministry has granted permission to the Shavei Israel organization to bring a group of some 150 Bnei Menashe from northeastern India on aliya, a government source told The Jerusalem Post this week.

Rabbi Lau elected Yad Vashem Council chairman

Cabinet approves former chief rabbi's appointment as head of Holocaust memorial museum's Council. Lau, a Holocaust survivor, says he is grateful for the appointment

Keep your lights on: Remembering Kristallnacht

Worldwide memorial events to take place on 70th anniversary of Nazi pogrom, including night-long light vigils in synagogues across world, international conference in Jerusalem

The JewBerry: Praying on the PDA

A $30 software program for BlackBerries, brainchild of two entrepreneurs who attended New York's Yeshiva University, provides texts of daily prayers

Anti-Semitism is alive and kicking in Romania

Recent desecration of some 200 graves in the great cemetery in Bucharest shows prevailing anti-Jewish trend.

More than 1,000 attend Limmud FSU Jewish learning conference

The organizers of the biggest informal educational conference in the former Soviet Union states were amazed with the success and scale of the operation.

10 arrested in false rabbinical titles scam

Some 1,500 policemen, prison employees and soldiers have been receiving NIS 2,000-NIS 4,000 per month more than they deserved because they falsely claimed they were rabbis, the state revealed on Sunday in an indictment filed in Jerusalem District Court.

US soldier discharged for beating Jew

The US Army has kicked out a soldier for beating a Jewish trainee who complained about religious harassment in their basic training unit, a spokesman said Monday.

Rabbi’s ruling: Torah falls; community must fast

Sacred scroll falls out of 12-year-old Modiin boy's hand during Simchat Torah celebrations. All adult male synagogue members must repent, says city's chief rabbi

Ivanka Trump converting to Judaism

Ahead of marriage to Jewish businessman, head of New York Observer Jared Kushner, daughter of real estate tycoon Donald Trump begins conversion process in Manhattan synagogue

Kosher Iowa meatpacker fined nearly $10 million

In September, plant owner and managers charged with 9,311 misdemeanors alleging they illegally hired minors and let children younger than 16 handle dangerous equipment.

Germany presents Israel Holocaust-era records

Culture Minister Bernd Neumann hands Yad Vashem personal details of 600,000 Jewish residents of Nazi Germany. 'This list is much more than a list. It is a unique document about life in Germany and tells the story of those who could not tell their own story,' he says

German economist apologizes for Jewish comparison

A leading German economist apologized Monday for drawing a much-criticized parallel between corporate managers today and the Nazi-era persecution of Jews that followed the 1929 financial crisis.

Anti-Obama email targets Jewish voters

Republicans disavowing message sent to 75,000 Jewish voters reading, 'Many of our ancestors ignored the warning signs in 1930s, 1940s and made a tragic mistake'

Up to 200 Jewish graves found desecrated in Bucharest cemetery

Up to 200 graves in the Jewish community's biggest cemetery in Bucharest have been vandalized, Romanian authorities said Friday.

Jerusalem and Babylon / Should Pope Pius XII be made a saint? Leave that to the Vatican to decide

The more theologically accurate answer is that it doesn't matter, what you, I, or anyone else thinks on the matter - not even the current pope. According to the rules of the Catholic Church, Pius XII either is a saint already or is not and can never be.All that's left to the powers that be in the Vatican is to recognize him as the saint that he either is or is not.

36 Jews who have shaped the 2008 U.S. election

The John McCain-Barack Obama contest has been one in which the issues of Wall Street and fitness for the presidency have far overshadowed the subject of Israel. But the Jewish vote remains a key element in battleground states, and, playing a wide variety of roles, Jews have helped to shape the campaigns.

Tens of thousands attend priestly benediction in Jerusalem

Jewish worshippers congregate at Western Wall for traditional Sukkot event; chief Ashkenazi, Sephardic rabbis bless nation.

U.S. rabbis: McCain attacks on Obama creeping toward 'hate speech'

Rabbis for Obama also denounce Republican Jews for labeling Democratic candidate as 'reckless on Israel.'

Paul Krugman wins Nobel economics prize

Krugman praised for formulating new theory on free trade

S. Africa's Jews praise president's greetings

Motlanthe wishes for country's Jews to be "inscribed in the Book of Life."

Brown lauds Israel as 'symbol of hope'

British prime minister pays tribute to the tenacity and achievements of the Jewish people.

Lebanese union to sue Israel for 'claiming ownership' of falafel

Lebanese union suing Israel for claiming falafel, hummus, and tabouleh, which they note is Lebanese delicacies

Haifa chief rabbi addresses the Vatican

Cohen makes the 1st appearance by a Jew before the Catholic Church's supreme representative body.

Burial artifact inscribed 'Son of High Priest' found near West Bank fence route

Artifact dates to the time of Jesus and the Second Temple, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority.

The Holocaust, Tarantino-style: Jews scalping Nazis

New film starring Brad Pitt stirs controversy in Germany, where discussion of WWII is usually restricted to historical discourse

Astronaut Ilan Ramon's diary put on display in Jerusalem

After  a year of restoration and 4 years of deciphering the pages, Ramon’s diary is put on display in the Israel Museum.

US: Jewish recruit says he was beaten

Pvt. Michael Handman said one sergeant used anti-Semitic slur, another made him remove kippa.

ADL: Financial crisis sparking upsurge in anti-Semitism on internet

Watchdog says postings accuse Jews of controlling U.S. government, finance as part of a 'Jew world order.'

Young Jews to push Florida grandparents to vote Obama launched

A new Jewish political action committee is encouraging, the Jewish Council for Education and Research, is organizing "The Great Schlep" over Columbus Day Weekend.

Aussie Holocaust denier nabbed in UK

Gerald Toben arrested on EU warrant at Heathrow for alleged anti-Semitism, Holocaust revisionism.

Holocaust charity hopes 5769 will be better for survivors

Efforts to help Israel's Holocaust survivors live out their final years in dignity should happen the whole year around and not just on certain Jewish holidays

McCartney warms up in Tel Aviv

Ex-Beatle tours Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, visits Beit Sahour school, jokes about 'Post' story.

World Jewish population grows by 70,000

Jewish Agency reports that in past year, number of Jews rose to 13.3 million; 5,500,000 in Israel.

Despite UN speech, Jews dine with Ahmadinejad in New York

'Friends of Gilad Shalit' to hold Rosh Hashanah dinner across from Livni's house

Friends of Gilad Shalit will hold a “captivity dinner”

Pope says wartime pontiff Pius XII worked to save Jews

Pope Benedict XVI defends predecessor; says Pius' many interventions were "made secretly and silently."

American Iraq war veterans tour Israel

The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America arrived in Israel this week for a week-long tour.

Rabbi Amar calls for end to discrimination against Ethiopians

Israel's chief Sephardic rabbi issues plea to community's schools, asks that they stop refusing Ethiopian students' admission

Pope slams anti-Semitism in meeting with French Jews

Pope Benedict XVI referred to anti-Semitism as to being “anti-Christian”

Parents angry over lack of kashrut on Poland trip

"It is not possible that they take such a large sum, more than NIS 7,000 per student, and they cannot supply kosher food."

Ashkenazim, Sephardim fight over Chief Rabbinate appointments

Degel Hatorah and Agudath Yisrael refuse to form a united voting bloc with Shas in protest against Shas's candidate Rabbi Avraham Yosef

Nazi hunter wants US, Austrian, Hungarian suspects

Efraim Zuroff says he is providing Serbian officials with evidence against Peter Egner, who lives in the United States, Milivoj Asner, who lives in Austria, and Sandor Kepiro of Hungary.

World's largest Jewish museum to be built in Moscow

Museum to be established in a historic building at the Jewish community center

Anti-Semitic remark draws Malaysian ire

Malaysian gov't slams official for urging Chinese minority not to become like "dominating" Jews in US.

215-year-old stolen manuscript to be returned to library

Israeli Embassy officials are currently arranging the manuscript's transfer from the German National Library in Berlin back to Israel.

Obama campaign targets Florida Jews in close race for key state

Poll released this week shows Obama and McCain tied in state which could prove crucial to November victory.

Muslim immigrants attack three Jewish teens in Paris

All three youths were hospitalized, one with a broken nose and jaw.

Wanted: Jewish families

Offered as much as $50,000 to relocate to Dothan, Alabama.

'Teacher's birthright' may get $100m. boost

The plan to bring thousands of Diaspora Jewish educators to Israel on free trips could receive over $100 million in state funding, according to initiatives being developed in the Prime Minister's Office

'Anti-Zionism a type of anti-Semitism'

A Cologne regional court ruling on Wednesday resulted in a partial legal victory for Henryk M. Broder, a prominent Jewish journalist who had asked the court to vacate a temporary restraining order barring him from labeling statements from fellow Jew Evelyn Hecht-Galinski as anti-Semitic.

Russian archaeologists find long-lost Jewish capital

Russian archaeologists said Wednesday that they had found the long-lost capital of the Khazar kingdom in southern Russia, a breakthrough for research on the ancient Jewish state.

Hawaii's 1st Jewish governor: Palin more experienced than Obama

Says Republicans will growing numbers of Jewish voters, citing 'stronger position on Israel.'

Greece urged to educate youth on Shoah after teens filmed urinating on memorial

In YouTube clip, vandals decried "propaganda about chosen people."

Petah Tikva religious schools reject kids of Ethiopian immigrants

Parents say they were told by adminstrators there was a surplus of Ethiopian students.

Jewish New Orleans undergoing dramatic transformation

Three years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, the face of Jewish New Orleans is undergoing a dramatic transformation.

YouTube removes memorial desecration video

YouTube removed a video showing a teenager urinating on the Holocaust memorial in Rhodes.

UK academic union bans anti-Semitic poster from Web site

Jenna Delich posted a link to an anti-Semitic article on the Web site of former Klu Klux Klan leader, David Duke.

Holocaust haunts survivors; agencies try to help

Nearly every night, Martin Hornung's nightmare unfolds to the same haunting strains. Of Auschwitz. Of screaming voices.

Swastikas painted on Berlin Holocaust memorial

German Police are searching for vandals who painted 11 swastikas on some of the 2,700 gray slabs of Berlin's Holocaust memorial.

Biden has 'solid pro-Israel record,' says head of Jewish Democratic group

The head of a major Jewish Democratic organization praised Barack Obama on Saturday for an "outstanding selection" in tapping Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware to be his vice presidential running mate.

PMO: No decision yet on Bnei Menashe

PM Olmert still to decide if 7,000 Bnei Menashe can immigrate

Jews and Iranians among student body on new version of '90210'

When the hit television series "Beverly Hills, 90210" premiered on the Fox network nearly two decades ago, many viewers pointed out that the show did not reflect the reality of Beverly Hills High School. The real Beverly Hills High is both predominantly Jewish and heavily Iranian.

Jewish World / Britain is a good place to be Jewish

Last month, my organization, the anti-Semitism watchdog CST released a report showing yet another rise in anti-Semitic incidents in Britain.

Fictitious IDF rabbis to refund military expenses

Army officers accused of fraudulently presenting themselves as rabbis in order to solicit pay raise ordered to refund army's expenses on their salaries. Some face disciplinary action, others may face criminal charges

Bnei Brak residents hold funeral for torched Torah scrolls

The two Torah scrolls were severely damaged in an arson attack on the city's Beit Yaakov synagogue

A 78-year-old bar mitzvah boy

Holocaust survivor Arieh Czeizler to celebrate bar mitzvah at 65-year delay, because 'Germans took us before I managed to read from the Torah’

Venezuela's Chavez meets world Jewish leaders, vows to fight anti-Semitism

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met with Jewish leaders on Wednesday, pledging to work together against anti-Semitism and open up channels of communication despite differences on Middle East politics. Both Chavez and leaders of the World Jewish Congress called the meeting a success.

French Jewish group sues YouTube

A French Jewish group said on Thursday it is suing the YouTube video-sharing website over a clip showing a host of Jewish public figures to the soundtrack of a pre-war anti-Semitic song. The video posted on the US site YouTube and its French rival Dailymotion shows a slideshow of more than 150 French politicians, TV stars, journalists, writers, philosophers, actors, singers and comedians.

Report: Berlin to compensate Hungarian Holocaust survivors

Jewish group says Germany agreed to pay 12.3 million euros to some 6,500 Hungarians 'in recognition of the incarceration and suffering of Budapest Shoah survivors'.

Georgian Jews flee to Israel as clashes with Russia continue

Many Georgian Jews preparing to leave as Georgia clashes with Russia over South Ossetia.

German police:Neo-Nazis stepping up violence

German neo-Nazis increasingly turning to violence according to top police officer.

Auschwitz museum appeals for funds

Management of death camp museum says it needs millions of euros urgently to maintain vast site, adding ruins of gas chambers and wooden barracks that held inmates are under threat

Satirical jab at Sarkozy's son sparks cries of anti-Semitism

Jean Sarkozy engaged to Jewish woman, rumors he is considering conversion

Archaeologists unearth proof of plot to kill Prophet Jeremiah

Israeli archaeologists unearth seal impression from 2,600 years ago during dig in Jerusalem.

Rising popularity in use of internet rabbis

Exodus passenger makes successful aliyah after 60 years

Obama struggling to convince all Jewish voters

Belz Hasidic Court logs onto web

Man arrested after spraying graffiti on Berlin's Holocaust memorial.

300 new olim arrive in Israel