Anti-Jewish violence shakes Boston
BOSTON — Days after a series of violent acts stunned Greater Boston and threatened its Jewish community, residents are jolted but resolute, vowing to continue taking pride in their Jewish identity....
View ArticleMore American Jews critical of Israel
WASHINGTON — A survey of US Jewish voters taken after the Israel-Gaza conflict finds that a sizable minority believe some of the harshest criticisms of Israel, including that it is committing genocide...
View ArticleWhen Holocaust education meets critical race theory
By Eleanor Stern NEW ORLEANS — At first, Danny Mintz was excited to learn that lawmakers in his state, Louisiana, were considering mandating Holocaust education in public schools. A view of the...
View ArticleFive states consider sanctions on Ben & Jerry’s
WASHINGTON — Could Ben & Jerry’s decision to stop selling its ice cream in the West Bank trigger many or all of the laws that US states have passed in recent years to hurt the Israel boycott...
View ArticleSen. Carl Levin dies
DETROIT — Carl Levin, the Jewish Michigander who spent 36 years as a focused public servant and pro-Israel voice in the Senate, has died at 87. The Levin Center at Wayne State University Law School...
View ArticlePro-Israel candidate wins in Ohio race
CLEVELAND — Shontel Brown, a Cuyahoga County councilwoman, came from behind in the polls to win a critical Democratic primary in a Cleveland area district with a substantial Jewish population. Shontel...
View ArticleIs foreign aid to Israel being conditioned?
WASHINGTON — The annual bill that determines what funds the US will disburse overseas passed last week, and it has new language. Howard Kohr, CEO of AIPAC, testifies before the House Appropriations...
View ArticleJewBelong fights anti-Semitism with eye-catching messages
By Eliyahu Kamisher, J., The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA SAN FRANCISCO — Dozens of hot-pink billboards and transit ads have appeared in major American cities over the last month,...
View ArticleWho is NY Gov. Kathy Hochul?
By Stewart Ain, New York Jewish Week via JTA NEW YORK — Kathy Hochul, who is set to succeed Andrew Cuomo as governor of New York, is no stranger to the New York Jewish community. New York Lt. Gov....
View Article‘No legitimate opposition’ to Syed
WASHINGTON — Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, is one of Israel’s staunchest defenders in Congress — and he thinks Republican attacks on one of President Joe Biden’s nominees as anti-Israel is...
View ArticleNortheast mop-up in high gear
By Faygie Holt The Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, NJ, announced Sept. 3 it will make an emergency allocation of up to $25,000 to help low-income families in Elizabeth, NJ, whose homes were...
View ArticleBurlington, Vermont won’t embrace BDS
BURLINGTON, Vt. — The sponsor of a bill that would have made Burlington, Vt. the first city in America to divest from Israel is withdrawing his legislation, citing concerns that it would promote...
View ArticleNot kosher: Impossible Pork
By Jacob Gurvis NEW YORK — Impossible Foods, the plant-based meat company, is releasing a long-awaited new product — but unlike the wildly popular Impossible Burger, it won’t be certified kosher....
View ArticleHarris silent on ‘genocide’
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris “strongly disagrees” with a university student who told her that Israel was carrying out “ethnic genocide,” her office said, pushing back against claims that...
View ArticleThe originals recognize the originals
By Larry Brook, Israel InSight The Northeast Alabama Cherokee held a ceremony on Sept. 25 in Guntersville, Ala., to establish a relationship with Israel. Northeast Alabama Cherokee Chief Larry Smith...
View ArticleColin Powell dies; the former Joint Chiefs spoke Yiddish
WASHINGTON — Colin Powell will be remembered in history as the first black US national security advisor, the first black military chief of staff and the first black secretary of state. US Sec. of State...
View ArticleOn Iran, Blinken says that ‘every’ option on the table
WASHINGTON — Yair Lapid got what he wanted out of his Washington visit: the word “every,” instead of “other.” Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, left, with US Sec. of State Antony Blinken at the...
View ArticleSpain rejecting citizenship applications
By Julia Gergely NEW YORK — After Spain announced it would offer citizenship to families of Jews it expelled more than 500 years ago, Mark Tafoya, a personal chef living in New York City, filled out an...
View ArticleSunrise DC singles out Jewish groups; national movement objects
WASHINGTON — The national Sunrise Movement, an environmental advocacy group, said that a statement by its Washington, DC chapter was “unacceptable and anti-Semitic” because it called for disassociating...
View ArticleAfter Pittsburgh: Can synagogues feel open with locked doors?
In a sense, the Jewish communal reactions to the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh and the coronavirus pandemic were diametric opposites. L-r: Rabbi Daniel Berman; Rabbi David Lyon; Rabbi Elazar Muskin...
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