Avi Ganon is director general and CEO of World ORT, the world’s largest Jewish education NGO which educates 300,000 students in more than 40 countries on five continents. Founded in 1880, its emphasis is on educating students to learn skills that allow them to be successful and live indepe…
We should celebrate the modern miracles happening among Jews in Russia, Ukraine and other states once under the grip of communism, writes the head of Federation partner JDC in a new op-ed. Read more.
Eighty years after Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” in which Nazis terrorized Jews throughout the German Reich, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was lifted in a cherry picker crane alongside Berlin community Rabbi Yehudah Teichtal to kindle what is billed as Europe’s…
Hundreds of people gathered in Pittsburgh at the site of last month’s deadly attack to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah. Read more.
The Israeli military on Tuesday said it uncovered the “first of sure to be many” cross-border attack tunnels dug by the Lebanese Hezbollah terrorist group, this one from under a house in the Lebanese village of Kafr Kila, across from the Israeli town of Metulla. Read more.
