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Ta-Nehisi Coates, an author and journalist, answered questions from Tiece Ruffin, director of Africana studies and professor of Africana studies and education at UNC Asheville, February 28, 2023.

‘CBS’ boss backs reporter after network says his Ta-Nehisi Coates interview didn’t meet standards

JNS StaffPublished October 9, 2024

Shari Redstone, the controlling shareholder of CBS parent company Paramount Global and daughter of the late Jewish billionaire Sumner Redstone, backed reporter Tony Dokoupil over his handling of a controversial interview with author Ta-Nehisi Coates about...

Top row, L-R: Jordan Harris, Quinn Hughes, Adam Fox and Luke Kunin. Bottom row, L-R: Jason Zucker, Zach Hyman, Jack Hughes and Jeremy Swayman. (Getty Images; Design by Grace Yagel)

All the Jewish NHL players to watch in the 2024-2025 season

Jacob Gurvis, JTAPublished October 8, 2024

As the NHL drops the puck on the 2024-2025 hockey season, Jewish fans will have plenty to root for. The season officially began last week with a pair of games in Prague between Jack and Luke Hughes’s New Jersey Devils and Devon Levi and Jason Zucker’s...

Protesters outside Columbia University, April 30, 2024. (Luke Tress)

Columbia pro-Palestinian group endorses violence, retracts apology for ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’ remark

Luke Tress, JTAPublished October 8, 2024

The most prominent pro-Palestinian student group at Columbia University walked back an apology it had issued for a student who said “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”  The statement on Tuesday from Columbia University Apartheid Divest also included...

Ina Garten's new memoir, "Be Ready When the Luck Happens," hit bookstores this month. (Crown)

In her long-awaited biography, superstar chef Ina Garten opens up about her abusive Jewish parents

Published October 8, 2024

It was, I thought, a Jewish food writer’s dream assignment. Nearly four years ago, during the first autumn of the COVID pandemic, I sat down (virtually) with food superstar Ina Garten. We discussed Ina Garten’s childhood food memories, diving deep...

President Donald Trump, accompanied by Chabad rabbis, praying at the Rebbe's Ohel.

Former President Trump marks Oct. 7 with prayer visit to Ohel

Chabad.org StaffPublished October 7, 2024

Marking one year since the Oct. 7 terror attack in Israel, former President Donald Trump paid a personal prayer visit on Monday afternoon to the Ohel in Queens, N.Y., the resting place of the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. Millions...

 U.S. President Joe Biden participates in a moment of silence at a remembrance ceremony on the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel in the Blue Room at the White House, Oct. 7, 2024. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Biden lights Oct. 7 yahrzeit candle as Kamala Harris vows to see Hamas threat ‘eliminated’

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished October 7, 2024

(JTA) — WASHINGTON — In separate statements marking the anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris said they continue to support Israel’s war against the group and its allies. Harris,...

Temple Israel in Minneapolis (Wikimedia Commons)

Minneapolis police arrest man for ‘terroristic threats’ made to synagogue on Rosh Hashanah 

Jacob Gurvis, JTAPublished October 7, 2024

The Minneapolis Police Department on Friday arrested a 21-year-old man for making “terroristic threats” against a local synagogue on Rosh Hashanah, three weeks after the man allegedly threatened to “shoot up” the synagogue. Jaden LeBlanc’s...

In an aerial view, a person rides past a destroyed church in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene flooding,  Swannanoa, North Carolina,  Oct. 6, 2024 .(Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Jewish officials handling hurricane communications face antisemitic harassment

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished October 7, 2024

WASHINGTON — Jewish government officials are being targeted with antisemitic attacks in a misinformation blitz hampering efforts to get critical information out to victims of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro...

St. Louisans invited to join global moment of silence for Oct. 7 victims.

St. Louisans invited to join global moment of silence for Oct. 7 victims.

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished October 6, 2024

St. Louisans are invited to participate in a global moment of silence as part of a larger memorial marking one year since the devastating Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led terrorist attack in Israel. The event, organized by families of the hostage and murder victims,...

Dictionary definition of antisemitism.

Antisemitism hits record high in the U.S.; new report shows most-ever incidents in single year

Benyamin Cohen, The ForwardPublished October 6, 2024

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. There have been more than 10,000 antisemitic incidents in the U.S. since Oct 7, the highest number ever recorded by the...

At left, the book cover of Mark and Matthew Jacob's Abe Saperstein biography (Courtesy). At right, Saperstein, far left, in the earliest known team photo of the Globetrotters, from the 1930–1931 season. (Berkley Family Collection)

The remarkable true story of how a Jewish immigrant helped shaped basketball as we know it today

Jacob Gurvis, JTAPublished October 3, 2024

When basketball superstar Stephen Curry sunk a series of three-point shots to help Team USA clinch the Olympic gold medal in Paris this summer, it’s unlikely the four-time NBA champion was thinking about Abe Saperstein. But as a new biography of...

Family and friends of Israeli soldier Captain Eitan Itzhak Oster, killed during an Israeli ground operation in Southern Lebanon, attend his funeral at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery. Jerusalem, Oct. 2, 2024.

8 Israeli troops killed in Lebanon in first Israeli casualties of ground invasion

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished October 2, 2024

In the first casualties in Lebanon since Israel launched a ground incursion this week, eight Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes with Hezbollah fighters. The army said Wednesday that six soldiers were killed in one clash and that two were killed...

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