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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump holds a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Oct. 27, 2024. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

‘I’m not a Nazi. I’m the opposite of a Nazi,’ Donald Trump says at Georgia rally

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished October 29, 2024

Speaking at a campaign rally in Georgia on Monday night, Donald Trump said the Kamala Harris campaign was painting him and his supporters as embracing Nazi ideology, a charge he rejected forcefully. “I’m not a Nazi. I’m the opposite of a Nazi,”...

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. (Getty Images)

Bipartisan support after Israel retaliates against Iran

By Jacob KornbluhPublished October 27, 2024

Strikes by Israel on military sites in Iran Friday night, an operation closely coordinated with the Biden administration, garnered rare bipartisan U.S. support. Both presidential candidates – Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald...

Phil Lesh lights the candles as Jeannette Ferber, a cantorial soloist at Berkeley's Renewal congregation Chochmat HaLev, sings the blessing, and guitarist Ross James looks on. (© Bob Minkin Photography / www.minkinphotography.com)

Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead bassist who hosted musical Passover seders, dies at 84

Philissa CramerPublished October 27, 2024

Among the legions of Grateful Dead fans mourning Phil Lesh are a small but devoted cohort of Jewish Deadheads with memories of celebrating Passover with him. “To life! To Phil! Our love will not fade away! Eternally grateful,” the Jewish vocalist...

Jerry Wartski, a Holocaust survivor and retired New York City real estate investor, blasted Kamala Harris in an ad released by Donald Trump's presidential campaign. (Screenshot)

Trump campaign ad features Holocaust survivor rebutting Harris’ ‘fascist’ allegation

Philissa CramerPublished October 27, 2024

A new campaign ad for Donald Trump pushes back against Kamala Harris’ claim that the former president is a “fascist” by featuring a Holocaust survivor who says Harris is disgracing his murdered family members with the allegation. “Adolf Hitler...

A general view of Tehran after several explosions were heard in Tehran,  Oct. 26, 2024. (Atta Kenare, AFP via Getty Images))

Israel hits Iranian military targets in retaliation for Oct. 1 missile barrage

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished October 25, 2024

WASHINGTON — Israel said it hit military targets in Iran in retaliation for that country’s missile barrage on Oct. 1, apparently heeding Biden administration pleas to avoid oil fields or Iran’s nuclear program because of fears of escalation into...

President Barack Obama poses for a picture at Magnolia’s Deli & Café during the college affordability bus tour, in Rochester, N.Y., Aug. 22, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

President George W. Bush Greets Diners at the Schnitz Ada Deli and Grill in Ada, Michigan, 10/15/2008

Politicians love to campaign at Jewish delis — but is it good for the delis?

By Lauren Markoe, The ForwardPublished October 24, 2024

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. At Manny’s deli in Chicago, both Democrats and Republicans stop in for bagels and lox and photo ops — and that’s...

Ben Binyamin (left) and Gali Segal (right), a young couple who both lost their right legs on Oct. 7 at the Nova Festival, celebrated their wedding this summer. Photo by Israel in Chicago Facebook / Stand With Us YouTube Screenshot / Canva

This remarkable story will help us dance on Simchat Torah

By Areyah Kaltmann, The ForwardPublished October 23, 2024

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Gali Segal and Ben Binyamin, two young people engaged to be married, were among those dancing at the Nova festival when...

A display of copies of Adolf Hitler's book “Mein Kampf.” Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Admirers of the Führer abound, and not always from the fringe

Published October 23, 2024

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Donald Trump told his chief of staff John Kelly that “Hitler did some good things,” including rebuilding the German...

Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks before departing the vice president’s residence, Oct. 23, 2024.  (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Harris says Trump’s reported admiration of Hitler’s generals is ‘deeply troubling’

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished October 23, 2024

WASHINGTON — Less than two weeks before the presidential election, Kamala Harris called Donald Trump’s alleged longing for the type of general who deferred to Adolf Hitler “deeply troubling.” In brief remarks Wednesday, Harris opined on The...

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. (Getty Images)

Trump and Harris present differing visions on Israel, but share key goals

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished October 22, 2024

(JTA) — WASHINGTON — With just weeks to go before the election, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have both tried to use Israel as a wedge issue: Trump has said the country will not exist in two years if he is defeated, and Harris’ campaign has called...

A kippah-clad man holds a sign reading "Jews for Black Lives" at the weekly Black Lives Matter "Jackie Lacey Must Go!" protest in front of the Hall of Justice in Los Angeles, Sept. 9, 2020. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Jewish Americans can’t agree on racism

Ilana M. Horwitz, JTAPublished October 22, 2024

In the summer of 2020, a friend and I were deep in conversation about race. You might remember it well, that summer of reckoning that followed George Floyd’s murder, igniting discussions on race across the country. Race relations suddenly became as...

Tal Schneider

“Where was the military?” Israeli journalist answers St. Louisans’ questions about Oct. 7

Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish LightPublished October 22, 2024

Tal Schneider is an Israeli mom with a son and daughter serving in the Israel Defense Forces. She also happens to be a noted journalist, the political and diplomatic correspondent for the Times of Israel. On Oct. 17, Schneider shared her perspective on...

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