Wednesday’s rally was in support of Rabbi Nechemia Schusterman of Chabad of Peabody and Rabbi Sruli Baron of Tobin Bridge Chabad in Chelsea, north of Boston.

Some candidates started by decrying anti-Semitism. Others started by holding up the U.S.-Israel relationship.

Nechama Rivlin died a day before her 74th birthday, at Beillinson Hospital in Petah Tikvah, where she underwent a lung transplant three months ago.

Semion Rosenfeld was transferred to Sobibor in 1943 and participated in the uprising there in September of that year.

Debbie Zimelman, a U.S.-born photographer who has lived in Israel for 30 years, spent five years with young women serving in 20 combat units to capture their experiences.

At the University of Birmingham, the Jewish student body now outnumbers the centuries-old Jewish community in the United Kingdom’s second largest city.

American Daniel Atwood received ordination alongside a mixed group of men and women in Jerusalem.

According to Jewish law, the Jewish community must take the side of allowing for safe, legal, available abortions.