(JTA) — The morning after a shooter killed two Israeli embassy aides at a Jewish event in Washington, D.C., incendiary rapper Kanye took to X with an unexpected message: “I am done with antisemitism.”
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has...
(JNS) -- The FBI raided the Chicago apartment of Elias Rodriguez on Thursday, searching for clues in their investigation of the 30-year-old, who is accused of shooting and killing two Israeli embassy employees in Washington on Wednesday night, as they...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 22, 2025
St. Louis and Kansas City Jewish leaders are reacting to the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers—one an Overland Park, Kan. native—outside a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C. Sarah Milgrim, 26, and her partner, Yaron Lischinsky, 28, were gunned...
(JTA) — At 12:52 a.m., just minutes after the name of one of the victims of the Capital Jewish Museum attack began to trickle out online, a social media user by the name of Mejd S tweeted a short message: “F— Yaron Lischinsky.”
Ten minutes...
Erez Linn, (Israel Hayom via JNS)
• Published May 22, 2025
Sarah Lynn Milgrim, the American woman who was murdered on Wednesday with her Israeli partner, Yaron Lischinsky, when a terrorist opened fire at an event in Washington’s Capital Jewish Museum, was a graduate student at American University School of...
By Louis Keene, The Forward
• Published May 22, 2025
The man who allegedly walked up to two Israeli embassy staffers and shot them dead Wednesday night reportedly told eyewitnesses he “did it for Gaza.”
But the event those staffers had just left at the Capital Jewish Museum highlighted an organization...
(JTA) — In 2021 at a viewing party for “WrestleMania,” the world’s flagship pro wrestling event, Oren Treitman and his fellow Israeli fans cheered for Sami Zayn.
In the larger WWE storyline, Zayn had taken on the persona of a conspiracy theorist,...
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Over the weekend, Haim — a rock band composed of Jewish sisters Este, Danielle and Alana Haim — got canceled for being,...
By Hannah Feuer, The Forward
• Published May 15, 2025
Paintball players typically take to online forums to discuss game tactics and compare gear. But this week, the niche subreddit r/paintball was overtaken by discourse about a different subject: moral outrage over Nazi hate symbols.
The controversy...
By Kevin Deutsch, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 15, 2025
An SUV adorned with an “OCT 7” vanity plate in Chesterfield has sparked outrage in the local Jewish community, with both the Anti-Defamation League and Jewish Federation of St. Louis condemning the display.
The front plate, bordered by a frame...
(JTA) — Jewish Florida Panthers minority owner Doug Cifu has been suspended indefinitely by the NHL after a social media spat with a fan that included discussion of the Israel-Hamas war and accusations of antisemitism.
Cifu, a vice chairman and part-owner...
(JTA) — A man checked out dozens of books on Jewish history and other marginalized topics from a public library in a heavily Jewish Cleveland suburb before filming himself apparently setting fire to them, local authorities said.
Local Jewish leaders...
