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PITTSBURGH (JTA) — Testifying at the trial of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter, Carol Black described how, right before he opened fire, she had...
JTA — When Rep. Rashida Tlaib joined a Zoom with 40 teenagers, she soon found herself talking about the kinds of topics — academic and otherwise...
JTA — US President Joe Biden unveiled a multifaceted and broad strategy to combat antisemitism in the United States that reaches from basketball...
JTA – In late April, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis visited Jerusalem, voicing support for West Bank settlements, touting a law he had just signed giving...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — US President Joe Biden is set to unveil a broad strategy to combat antisemitism on Thursday morning, launching a plan that has...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — More than 550 rabbis on Friday called for the Biden administration’s forthcoming strategy on fighting antisemitism to include a...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Deborah Lipstadt, the US State Department’s top envoy combating antisemitism, condemned Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Republican Jewish Coalition on Monday called on Congress to maintain defense assistance to Ukraine, taking a side in an...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a recent speech, US Representative Rashida Tlaib said she struggles with the idea of uprooting Israeli settlements in the West...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — When House Speaker Kevin McCarthy blocked an event marking 75 years of Palestinian suffering since Israel’s establishment in...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Jewish Council for Public Affairs has tapped Amy Spitalnick, who spearheaded a successful multimillion-dollar lawsuit against...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — As the 2024 election gets into gear, both Republicans and Democrats are again using Israel as a wedge issue. A lot has changed in...
PITTSBURGH (JTA) — How many times should an alleged synagogue shooter’s name be mentioned in a news story about his trial, now beginning after...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a major policy speech, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt doubled down on his argument that anti-Zionism is...
PITTSBURGH (JTA) — On Friday afternoon, the Squirrel Hill neighborhood was suffused with spring breezes and pink dogwood blossoms, and alive with...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — He left office after one of the shortest terms of any prime minister in Israeli history and doesn’t have an active political...
JTA — The umbrella group for Jewish federations defended its decision to invite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to its conference in Tel Aviv next...
JTA – Jewish Democrats are backing Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Republicans are calling on him to explain himself, following a report that the...
TEHRAN, Iran — Police in Iran said on Saturday they have implemented a plan to deal with women who violate the country’s strict Islamic dress...
BEIRUT, Lebanon — After meeting in Saudi Arabia to discuss Syria’s political fate, a group of regional leaders promised Saturday to continue talks...
JTA — Zachary Ottenstein didn’t expect to bond with his dad over chess and classic rock during his trip home from Florida at the end of...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jack Teixeira, the National Guard airman arrested on charges of leaking a large trove of US intelligence documents, reportedly...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — It’s official: The mayor of the US capital wants Washingtonians to celebrate the end of Passover with a traditional North...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — For Rotem Yerushalmi, a professional campus pro-Israel advocate, what stood out during a recent visit to the Museum of the...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — US President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he would be releasing a “comprehensive” strategy to combat antisemitism,...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Major American Jewish organizations that hoped to send a unified message about the turmoil in Israel instead found themselves...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — “They’re coming for me,” Donald Trump said in a fundraising email to his supporters, and he immediately made clear who...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — For the first time, a poll by Gallup found that Democrats are likelier to sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis, though...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — At a time when some European nations are seeking to revise their Holocaust histories to emphasize victimhood, a senior Biden...
JTA — Following the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, federal regulators shuttered Signature Bank, whose chairman, Scott Shay, is a major donor to...
JTA — The organizers of the deadly neo-Nazi Charlottesville rally in 2017 have been ordered to pay close to $5 million to plaintiffs for legal costs...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sixteen Jewish Democratic lawmakers called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to suspend legislation that would remove much of...
JTA — Ben Savage, the Jewish actor best known for the 1990s coming of age series “Boy Meets World,” is running to replace Adam Schiff, the...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Four states have presidential primaries that fall on the first day of Passover next year and legislation has been introduced in...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the top Democrat on the powerful House Appropriations Committee, is spearheading a letter from Democrats...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Two leading Jewish civil rights organizations are part of a coalition of groups asking the US Supreme Court to uphold protections...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — As American Jewish organizations responded to Sunday’s settler riot in the West Bank, most began with statements of...
JTA — Did someone associated with the late Rabbi Yehiel Eckstein’s nonprofit pay a company to remove criticism of his and his daughter’s...
JTA — New Hampshire’s attorney general launched an investigation into an overnight wave of vandalism attacks in Portsmouth that included a red...
JTA — A large painting of Jesus will be moved out of a room at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in New York, and mandatory events will not take...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — George Santos, the New York Republican congressman in trouble for a string of lies about his education, his career and his...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Ted Lerner, who died on Sunday at age 97, was as famously workaholic as he was shy. So it was a big deal when Washingtonian...
JTA — Yair Cherki, the religion reporter for Israel’s Channel 12, gained a name for his sidecurls, his cheery demeanor and his rapid-fire delivery...
JTA — Police said arson may be behind two fires at a Jewish camp in a village near Ottawa. Firefighters battled a blaze before dawn on Sunday at one...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Jewish Democrat from California who has been in office for more than three decades, will not run in...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Benny Chukrun, speaking in Hebrew on a wind-whipped day outside the Israeli embassy in the US capital, had a message for his...
JTA — Rep. Adam Schiff, the Jewish Democrat from California who recently announced a run for the Senate, said that he was “very concerned” about...
(JTA) — It’s “ridiculous” to doubt that Jews like money, popular podcaster Joe Rogan said on his show on Saturday. Rogan was discussing the...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A man who was beaten at a supermarket in a Washington, DC, suburb says his attacker used antisemitic epithets and was encouraged...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Republican Party unanimously condemned antisemitic Kanye West and Nick Fuentes, saying their beliefs have no place in “any...