(JTA) — One of the men who allegedly beat two Jewish DePaul University students after one showed support for Israel last November has been charged with a hate crime.
Adam Erkan, 20, has been charged with two counts of aggravated battery and hate...
At least two Jewish organizations have announced events next week with Israel’s Itamar Ben-Gvir when the far-right politician makes his first trip to the United States since becoming Israel’s national security minister.
When Ben-Gvir first joined...
When the president of El Salvador came to the White House this week, he rejected a U.S. Supreme Court order to “facilitate” the return of a man locked inside one of his country’s notorious detention facilities.
“How can I smuggle the terrorist...
Nathanael Andrade, Binghamton University
• Published April 16, 2025
It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social subversives – crucifixion.
The New Testament...
Israeli researchers have developed a blood test capable of detecting Parkinson’s disease even before symptoms emerge, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced on Tuesday.
The simple test, which focuses on RNA fragments in the blood (tRFs), offers...
The man suspected of setting fire to the home of Pennsylvania’s Jewish governor, Josh Shapiro, said he targeted Shapiro because of “what he wants to do to the Palestinian people,” according to a search warrant signed by state police and quoted by...
In his first major public comments about Israel since early in the Gaza war, the Jewish actor Ben Platt said his Jewish identity is not defined by Israel.
Platt also voiced support for another Jewish actor, Hannah Einbinder, who has drawn criticism...
Elections for the American representatives of the World Zionist Congress continue through May 4 with major ramifications for the allocation of more than $1 billion of funding for Israel and world Jewry, in addition to shaping Zionist institutions for...
A year ago, Sarah Resnick had a good job and a Jewish community she liked in New York. She gave all that up to move to Winnipeg, a city where she knew nobody, in a country where she was not a citizen, in a climate whose extremes she was not used to.
“Do...
Julie Moos, Interim editor-in-chief
• Published April 14, 2025
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Just hours after Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family began Passover with a Seder in his official residence,...
(JTA) — A Pennsylvania man will be charged with terrorism and attempted murder after allegedly firebombing the official residence of Gov. Josh Shapiro, hours after Shapiro and his family hosted a Passover seder there.
On Saturday, Shapiro posted...
(JTA) — To over 300,000 TikTok followers, Hayim Nissim Cohen was a rabbi who had taken in nine adoptive sons and documented their Jewish lives. But after one of the children spoke out about the sexual abuse that was happening off-camera, that illusion...
