(JTA) — Hate crimes against Jews in the United States reached an all-time high in 2024, accounting for 70% of all religiously motivated hate crimes, according to FBI data released this week. The new FBI report released Tuesday found that hate crimes...

Detectives with the Clayton Police Department are investigating three suspicious vehicle fires as a targeted hate crime. The cars were set ablaze early Tuesday morning, Aug. 5, and antisemitic graffiti was found written in the roadway nearby. The incident...

Last month, the Jewish Light shared reporting from The Forward, a national, nonprofit Jewish news website, that detailed the rise of a whites-only enclave in northeast Arkansas. That story, titled "No Jews allowed—just 222 miles from St. Louis, white...

The Clayton School District will roll out new anti-hate programming from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), including mandatory antisemitism training for all staff and the adoption of the No Place for Hate® initiative at two of its schools. Beginning...

Arno Michaelis, a reformed neo-Nazi, told guests at Chabad of the Main Line in Merion Station, Pa., on Tuesday night that he is “committed” to his support of the Jewish community and Israel. Mark Erlbaum, a member of the congregation, had met Michaelis...

(JNS) Columbia University penalized more than 70 students involved in violent and other disruptive anti-Israel protests on the Manhattan school’s campus, according to the New York Post. The school’s disciplinary actions include suspensions of between...

The National Education Association has officially rejected a push to boycott Holocaust and antisemitism education materials produced by the Anti-Defamation League, a decision that drew praise from Jewish leaders across the political spectrum but also...

(JTA) — The number of antisemitic assaults and acts of vandalism on college campuses fell sharply in the last school year, according to Hillel International. And the pro-Palestinian encampments that ignited fear among many Jewish college students...

In the second installment of And So It Goes, HBO’s new two-part documentary about Billy Joel, the Piano Man explains why he wore a yellow Star of David in August 2017, during his residency at Madison Square Garden, in his most extensive filmed account...

(JTA) — New York City’s Democratic mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdan, told business leaders that he would seek to discourage the use of the phrase “globalize the intifada” but continued not to outright denounce it, the New York Times reported...

(JTA) — Nearly six months into Donald Trump’s term as president, the United States remains without a special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, an ambassador-level role at the State Department known colloquially as the antisemitism czar. Trump...