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Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at the Bojangles Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina, Sept. 12, 2024. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Kamala Harris does not agree with protester who shouted ‘genocide,’ her campaign says

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished October 22, 2024

The Kamala Harris campaign said the vice president did not agree with a protester who accused Israel of genocide when she said what he was talking about is “real.” Harris’ remarks at a Milwaukee campaign event on Saturday circulated widely in...

Is God the ultimate strongman?

Is God the ultimate strongman?

Published October 21, 2024

This story was originally published on Moment.com. Sign up for the Moment Minute.  INDEPENDENT I humbly refer the question to rabbis far older and more learned than I, beginning with the third-century Rabbi Yochanan. His response (in the Babylonian...

Can you be buried in a Jewish cemetery if you die by assisted suicide?

Can you be buried in a Jewish cemetery if you die by assisted suicide?

By Beth HarpazPublished October 21, 2024

A Bintel Brief, Yiddish for a bundle of letters, has been solving reader dilemmas since 1906. Send yours via email, social media or this form. Dear Bintel, My husband is nearing the end of his life due to cancer. He wants assisted suicide, legal...

Israeli security forces at the scene where a drone fired from Lebanon caused damage in Caesarea, Oct. 19, 2024.

Assassination attempt on Netanyahu—Israel vows massive retaliation!

JNS Staff ReportPublished October 20, 2024

New Hope Party leader Gideon Sa’ar said on Sunday that the state of Lebanon should be held responsible for the Hezbollah drone attack on the Caesarea residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday. “From the territory of a U.N....

Yahya Sinwar at the opening of a new mosque in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 24, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

Israel kills Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished October 17, 2024

Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the deadliest attack on Israel in its history, was killed in a firefight with Israeli forces. “Yahya Sinwar planned and executed the October 7th Massacre, promoted his murderous ideology both before and during the war,...

Miriam Adelson donates $100M to Trump campaign

Miriam Adelson donates $100M to Trump campaign

Asaf Elia-Shalev, JTAPublished October 16, 2024

Miriam Adelson has delivered on a pledge she reportedly made at the start of the general election season, donating $100 million to a campaign committee supporting the candidacy of Donald Trump, according to disclosures filed Tuesday with the Federal Election...

Israeli professor Shai Davidai outside of Columbia University, April 22, 2024. (Luke Tress)

Columbia bars Shai Davidai, outspoken Israeli and pro-Israel professor, from campus

Luke Tress, JTAPublished October 16, 2024

Shai Davidai, an Israeli assistant professor at Columbia University’s business school and outspoken pro-Israel activist, said he has been barred from the school’s campus again. In a video posted to Instagram on Tuesday, Davidai said his lawyer...

Rabbi Yael Buechler is displaying her Amazon “tuchus” boxes in her Sukkah, October 2024. (Courtesy Buechler)

The ‘Tuchus’ Box that had Jews laughing—and buying!

By Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished October 16, 2024

The brightly colored “Sukkot boxes” offered up on Amazon boasted the colors of spring, not fall; had no ostensible use for the Jewish holiday; and contained a Hebrew misspelling that bordered on obscene. Reader, I bought them. And it wasn’t...

Former KKK president David Duke, left, announced on his radio show Oct. 15 that he is endorsing Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. (Photos via YouTube, Wikimedia)

Former KKK leader David Duke endorses Jewish presidential candidate

Jackie Hajdenberg, JTAPublished October 16, 2024

David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, endorsed Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, who is Jewish, on his radio show Tuesday. Duke, long one of the country’s highest-profile white supremacists and antisemites, has repeatedly...

Jewish passengers were greeted by the police once they arrived in Frankfurt. (Courtesy)

Lufthansa ordered to pay $4M penalty for denying boarding to 128 Jewish passengers in 2022

Jackie Hajdenberg, JTAPublished October 15, 2024

The U.S. Department of Transportation has ordered Lufthansa to pay a $4 million Lufthansa discrimination fine for denying boarding to 128 Jewish passengers in 2022. The incident, which occurred in May 2022, affected passengers wearing traditionally...

HIT AND RUN (L to R) LIOR RAZ as SEGEV AZULAI in episode 109 of HIT AND RUN Cr. JOJO WHILDEN/NETFLIX © 2021

Lior Raz, Dustin Hoffman, and Tovah Feldshuh are teaming up for new movie

By Yulia Karra, Israel21cPublished October 15, 2024

It was announced recently that Lior Raz, cocreator and lead star of Netflix’s hit show “Fauda,” is set to star in Hollywood crime thriller “Turner” alongside veteran actor Dustin Hoffman. According to a report in Deadline, the film “tells...

A silhouette of Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism,  is displayed near a flag of the state of Israel on a building in Jerusalem. (Yehoshua Halevi/Getty Images)

For the sake of Israel, is it time to retire the word ‘Zionism’?

Alanna E. Cooper, Sharona Hoffman, JTAPublished October 14, 2024

With the rise of the campus protest movement post-Oct. 7, the terms “Zionist” and “Zionism” have suddenly entered the popular lexicon as never before. At our institution — Case Western Reserve University — the calls for student activism...

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