Liberal Jewish groups joined the chorus condemning the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian protest leader at Columbia University who was detained by ICE and threatened with deportation.
The statements came amid a cascade of condemnation and protest...
Voting opens Monday in an election that gives American Jews a rare chance to directly shape the future of Israel.
The U.S. election for seats in the 39th World Zionist Congress will help determine the balance of power in the legislative authority of...
Sam Fisher, Lonny Goldsmith, CincyJewfolk
• Published March 7, 2025
A version of this story originally appeared on CincyJewfolk, an independent journalism and engagement site for Cincinnati’s Jewish community.
When Rabbi Ari Jun learned that faith leaders were invited to speak at a rally in Cincinnati against neo-Nazis...
(JTA) — An Oscar for “A Real Pain” wasn’t Jesse Eisenberg’s only win this week — he also received citizenship in Poland, where he filmed the movie about reckoning with one’s family’s Holocaust history.
Polish president Andrzej Duda...
This year, Rachel Levine is glad her family is heading to a Passover program in Arizona, departing from their tradition of hosting dozens for seders at their Manhattan home.
It’s not the cooking, the cleanup, or the wear and tear on her home that...
The Trump administration has canceled $400 million worth of grants to Columbia University, following through on threats to pull funding from the school over objections to campus antisemitism.
The grants came from the Department of Health and Human...
The BDS movement and Israel’s right-wing culture minister agree on one thing: “No Other Land,” the Israeli-Palestinian documentary that just won the Oscar for best documentary, is anathema.
One says the movie is a smear on Israel. The other says...
President Donald Trump posted a message that began “Shalom Hamas,” and proceeded to threaten the terror group with destruction if it did not release the nearly 60 hostages it still holds.
“Shalom,” one of the most well-known Hebrew words, translates...
The White House has confirmed that U.S. officials are holding talks with Hamas representatives in an effort to negotiate an end to the Gaza war.
Adam Boehler, the Trump administration’s hostage envoy, who is Jewish, met with Hamas officials in Doha,...
Morrie M. Mayer, August 17, 1946 – February 26, 2025
Our beloved father, Morrie M. Mayer, passed away peacefully in Heart to Heart Hospice House in Houston, Texas on February 26, 2025 at the age of 78.
Morrie was born in Austria in 1946 to Ben...
Kingsley Wilson, the deputy press secretary at the Pentagon, last year tweeted a neo-Nazi talking point about Jewish lynching victim Leo Frank.
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The...
