This past Saturday night, during Selichot services, I led members of our congregation in our first recitation of “Ashamnu,” the confessional acrostic that we accompany by striking our hearts. There will be many recitations of the confessional...

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(JTA) — Jerry Greenfield, one of two founders of the iconic progressive ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s, has stepped down citing political pressure from the brand’s parent company, Unilever. | RELATED: No, Ben & Jerry’s does not make...

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Robert Redford, the actor, director and film festival visionary, has died at 89. Remembered for his ruddy good looks, accomplished pivot to directing and helping to usher the film industry into its independent era by spearheading the Sundance...

(JTA) — Two 17th-century paintings have been taken off the auction block after a Holocaust art restitution organization determined that they had been looted from a German Jew’s collection in France during World War II. The two paintings, believed...

(JTA) — A Republican member of Congress who has been a vocal opponent of campus antisemitism told a progressive Jewish Democrat on Wednesday to “get your nose done.” Rep. Sara Jacobs and multiple progressive watchdogs denounced Rep. Nancy...

(JTA) — An anonymous group of Jewish student activists has broken away from Jewish Voice for Peace to form a new national organization, the Anti-Zionist Jewish Student Front, that pledges to escalate campaigns against Zionism on college campuses. In...

(JTA) — The Jewish lawmaker who followed Jerry Seinfeld on stage during an appearance at Duke University on Tuesday is decrying the comedian’s comments, in which he said pro-Palestinian protesters were worse than the Ku Klux Klan. “I condemn...

Less than two hours after Charlie Kirk was killed by a gunman in Utah, Maram Susli began suggesting to her 500,000 followers on X that Israel was to blame. “Charlie Kirk was attacked by Israel supporters last month and labeled an anti-Semite...

(JTA) — BROOKLYN — Former St. Louisan Brad Lander called for “a coalition of anti-Zionists and liberal Zionists” in a speech at a left-wing Jewish event where he was being honored alongside New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani. Lander,...

(JTA) — Israeli and pro-Israeli U.S. Jews were among those expressing concern after Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old conservative activist who founded Turning Point USA and emerged as a leading voice of the pro-Trump right, was shot Wednesday during...