On Yom Kippur, October 2, 2025, tragedy struck the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation of Manchester in the UK, a close-knit community led by Rabbi Daniel Walker, who has served as its rav since 2008. That...

“Zohran Mamdani says he wants to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe, but he refuses to acknowledge that ‘globalize the intifada’ is not a call for justice. It’s a call for violence. It’s incitement.” —Ted...

我会说一点儿汉语。 (pronounced, Wǒ huì shuō yīdiǎn er hànyǔ). It means, “I can speak a little Chinese.” It’s something Jason (Eitan) Teshuba might say, as he does, in fact, speak a little Chinese. That makes...

Pending some major unforeseen happening, come January, New York will most likely have a mayor named Mamdani. Many New Yorkers, whether because of Zohran Mamdani’s deeply disturbing bias against Israel or because of the wildly...

The release of the remaining living hostages held in Gaza filled the Jewish world with happiness and a sense of relief after such long suffering. As Hamas slowly returns the bodies of hostages, some...

“Fifty-nine countries are part of this. We’ve never seen anything like this. Now it’s all happening.” —President Trump, speaking to CNN last week about the prospects of his peace plan for Gaza succeeding Jews around the...

I must admit that speaking to Tuli Guttman was one of the most memorable Lunchbreak conversations I have had in a while, for two main reasons. The first is that Tuli is a sweet...

It took mere minutes—quite literally—after the Gaza ceasefire agreement was signed, on October 10, for armed Hamas members to reassert control in Gaza City. Amid the well-warranted euphoria born of the living hostages’ release three...

This story reads like a modern-day super-thriller, replete with treasure maps, secret agents, intrigue, acts of deception and counter-deception, and lots of really bad guys, but you’ll see that truth is stranger than fiction...

It was the morning of Shemini Atzeres, October 9, 1982. For the Jews of the ancient Ghetto of Rome it was an ordinary Yom Tov morning, with no premonition of the chaos to come. Men,...