Current Events

The tight-knit Jewish community of Toulouse was thrown into turmoil Monday morning, the peace of the southwestern French city shattered by a gunman’s bullets. As police counted shell casings, authorities released the names of the deceased, their lives snu...

Rabbi Avrohom Rapoport rode through the streets around Atlantic City, N.J., this morning on a construction truck laden with food and water. Debris is everywhere, with parts of houses, roofs and boardwalk pieces littering the ground. Cars occupy spots on l...

While the millions throughout the Tri-State Area and beyond furiously made last minute preparations before the onslaught from Hurricane Sandy began, Rabbi Anchelle Perl also concerned himself with spiritual pursuits.

As Hurricane Sandy inches ever closer to the Eastern Seaboard, Rabbi Eli and Beila Goodman are among the millions of people, stretching from Boston to Washington, D.C., preparing for the arrival of what meteorologists say could be one of the biggest storm...

Eva Sandler, the French widow and mother who lost her husband and two of their children in the Monday’s attack outside the Ozar Hatorah high school in Toulouse, implored people around the world to carry on the victims’ memories by doing good deeds and rec...

Thousands of people packed a Jerusalem cemetery to bid farewell to the victims of Monday’s shooting outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, France.

As French officials narrowed their investigation of the slaying of a Toulouse teacher, his two sons and the daughter of the Ozar Hatorah high school’s principal, parents and students faced their first full day since the bullets of a suspected serial kille...

Jewish residents of Paris crammed inside the city’s historic Synagogue Nazareth Monday evening in an attempt to put words to their shock and grief following the gunning down of three young children and a father outside Toulouse’s Ozar Hatorah high school.

One week after their only son’s burial, Nachman and Itta Kletzky want people the world over to perform “acts of unity and loving kindness” to keep the memory of their angelic Leiby alive.

After emerging from last week’s 8.9-magnitude earthquake and resultant tsunami largely unharmed, Japan’s Jewish community turned to relief efforts Monday, dispatching truckloads of supplies to one of the hardest-hit cities.