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JTA — Hackers shut down an Atlanta synagogue’s live stream of Senator-Elect Raphael Warnock delivering a sermon to honor Martin Luther King Jr.,...
JTA — US President-elect Joe Biden named David Cohen, the deputy CIA director under president Barack Obama, to his old job. Cohen, who rose up...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the appearance of a man wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt during the Capitol riot last...
JTA — Kristen Clarke, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to head the civil rights division at the Justice Department, said it was a mistake to...
JTA — Longtime CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer said Thursday that he was happy that his late parents, survivors of the Holocaust, did not live to witness...
JTA — Harold Bornstein, the New York Jewish physician whose 2016 letter declaring Donald Trump “unequivocally the healthiest individual ever...
JTA — US President-elect Joe Biden named Samantha Power, a former US ambassador to the United Nations, to a top foreign aid post on Wednesday. ...
JTA — Illinois Representative Brad Schneider, a Jewish Democrat who is a leader in the US House of Representatives on Israel issues, said he has the...
JTA — Ted Cruz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez engaged in a Twitter beef about the use and misuse of Holocaust analogies. The weekend’s exchange...
JTA — Elissa Slotkin, the Jewish Democratic moderate from Michigan whose role was critical in impeaching US President Donald Trump in 2019, is in...
JTA — Three of the four Democrats leading the charge to impeach US President Donald Trump for a second time are Jewish: David Cicilline of Rhode...
WASHINGTON — First Lady Melania Trump broke her silence Monday on last week’s invasion of the US Capitol by her husband’s supporters,...
JTA — Brennan Leach wants you to know, first of all, that the caption on the viral photo of her taken inside the US Capitol building on Wednesday...
JTA — Alejandro Mayorkas, the Jewish Latino nominee for Homeland Security secretary, met Friday via Zoom with Jewish groups concerned about the rise...
JTA — The Anti-Defamation League became the first major mainstream Jewish organization to call for Donald Trump’s removal from the US presidency...
JTA — A number of Republicans who said they would challenge the electoral votes in some states providing Joe Biden with a presidential victory...
JTA — AIPAC hardly ever pronounces on any issue that does not relate to Israel. It’s also loath to criticize a sitting president. But the...
JTA — It’s been a day unlike any in modern American history: An armed mob broke through police into the US Capitol building, vandalizing offices...
JTA — The family of Rep. Jamie Raskin has established a fund to honor the memory of Tommy Raskin, the Maryland Jewish Democrat’s son, who died on...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Republican Jewish Coalition is not taking a position on efforts by US President Donald Trump and a number of congressional...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A letter backing President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to reenter the Iran nuclear deal without any new conditions has garnered 150...
JTA — The Department of Veterans Affairs removed two gravestones bearing swastikas from a military cemetery in Texas. With little fanfare, the VA...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Among the last-minute rush of presidential appointments ahead of Donald Trump’s departure from office is Richard Grenell, a...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Following a coordinated lobbying effort by Orthodox Jewish and Roman Catholic groups, the $900 billion coronavirus stimulus...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Congress is set to double security funding for nonprofits to $180 million next year as part of the $2.3 trillion spending package...
JTA — US Senator Dianne Feinstein has no plans to leave the Senate, she told Gerald Skelton, a sympathetic Los Angeles Times columnist, in an...
JTA — Los Angeles’ Jewish mayor won’t be Washington bound. Eric Garcetti says he is taking himself out of the running for a job in the Biden...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The US Senate passed a bill that would elevate the position of the anti-Semitism monitor to ambassador, adding punch to the...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — US President Donald Trump named three White House aides to the US Holocaust Memorial Council, including the son of his lawyer...
A decades-old memo unveiled by the US National Archives on Tuesday shows that Tony Blinken, US President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of...
JTA — A Jewish Democratic group released a video ad Tuesday featuring Rev. Raphael Warnock, the party’s challenger in one of two key Senate...
WASHINGTON — The United States on Tuesday placed a pro-Iranian group based in Bahrain on its global “terror list,” accusing it of plotting...
JTA — Floridians can now ‘stand with Israel’ even while stuck in traffic. A graphic designer from Boca Raton has come up with the winning...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Influential US House of Representatives Democrats, including one who has for years been close to the center-right pro-Israel...
JTA — In his 28 years at the CIA, Darrell Blocker figured out a reliable strategy for recruiting covert agents. “A person like myself is always...
JTA — The two candidates in a critical runoff election for the US Senate exchanged charges of associations with anti-Semites and white supremacists...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Some of Rabbi Levi Shemtov’s most prominent congregants are likely to leave his synagogue soon, but the Washington, D.C. rabbi...
JTA — James Wolfensohn, the World Bank president and philanthropist who helped shepherd Israel’s exit from the Gaza Strip, has died at 86. ...
JTA — Irwin Cotler, a former Canadian justice minister and a human rights activist, is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s choice as his nation’s...
JTA — Fox News and the parents of Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staffer killed near his Washington, DC home in 2016, settled the...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — US President-elect Joe Biden announced the nomination on Monday of Alejandro Mayorkas, a Latino Jew who has emphasized the...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Over 18 years, theater director Ari Roth built Theater J into a Washington DC Jewish powerhouse that often debuted works by major...
JTA — The Trump administration has chosen the first leader for a US investment fund aimed at advancing Israeli-Arab peace: a right-wing rabbi who...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Trump White House is throwing an in-person Hanukkah party, one of a series of recent events the administration has held...
JTA — It’s a Jewish ritual: Every four years after a presidential election, the question arises about how American Jews voted. “Check the...
JTA — Elissa Slotkin, the rare Democrat who won reelection in a district where US President Donald Trump got a majority, is urging her fellow...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — It’s going to be a long 70 days, with President Donald Trump promising what may be the most — ambitious? excruciating? take...
JTA — Almost as soon as it became clear that control of the United States Senate would be decided by two runoff elections in Georgia, scrutiny...