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Kanye embarks on a new antisemitic spree on X, saying, ‘I’m never apologizing for my Jewish comments’
Philissa Cramer, JTA
• Published February 7, 2025
![Snoop Dogg (left) and Tom Brady star in a Super Bowl ad calling out hate, produced by Robert Kraft’s foundation.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/FCAS-SB-Ad-1200x667.jpg)
Snoop Dogg, Tom Brady fighting hate in Super Bowl ad
Jacob Gurvis, JTA
• Published February 6, 2025
![May 16, 2023; Washington, DC, USA; Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., questions Samuel Altman, CEO, OpenAI, testifying before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law hearing on Artificial Intelligence in Washington. Mandatory Credit: Jack Gruber-USA TODAY](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Josh-Hawley-1200x675.jpg)
Josh Hawley and pro-Israel Dem group comment on Trump’s proposed Gaza plan
JNS Staff
• Published February 5, 2025
![US President Donald Trump listens to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak during a press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, Feb. 4, 2025.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2197142708-2160x1200-1-1200x667.jpg)
US Jewish groups respond to Trump’s Gaza comments
Philissa Cramer, JTA
• Published February 5, 2025
![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump speak during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington, DC.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2197672127-1200x667.webp)
Trump: ‘The US will take over the Gaza Strip’
Ben Sales, JTA
• Published February 4, 2025
![U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu participate in a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House,](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/11-07-2024-Netanyahu-Trump-1200x667.webp)
‘The US will take over the Gaza Strip,’ Trump says
Andrew Bernard, JNS
• Published February 4, 2025
![Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks before prominent Jewish donors at an event titled "Fighting Anti-Semitism in America" at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Washington D.C., Sept. 19, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/09-19-2024-Trump-1200x667.webp)
Trump administration asks Congress to OK $1 billion arms sale to Israel
JNS Staff, JNS
• Published February 4, 2025
![Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump participate in the signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., Sept. 15, 2020. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/06-01-2021-Netanyahu-Trump-1200x667.jpg)
Netanyahu heads to Washington for what Trump says are ‘very big meetings’
Philissa Cramer, JTA
• Published February 3, 2025
![On the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel, USC students walk out of class and march around their campus in support of Palestinians and the divest movement on Monday, October 7, 2024 in Los Angeles. President Trump's executive order on Jan. 29, 2025, suggests that foreign-born protesters who express support for terrorism be deported. (Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/1-30-25-protesters-1-1200x667.jpg)
Jewish groups offer mixed reactions to Trump’s executive order on antisemitism
Andrew Lapin, JTA
• Published January 30, 2025
![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv on April 10, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/04-10-2023-Netanyahu-1200x669.webp)
Israel orders terrorists’ release frozen after ‘horrific’ mobbing of released hostages
JNS Staff
• Published January 30, 2025
![Arbel Yehud, an Israeli hostage held in Gaza, is made to traverse a dense crowd of terrorists before being handed over to the Red Cross outside Yahya Sinwar's house in Khan Yunis, Gaza, Jan. 30, 2025. (Hani Alshaer/Anadolu via Getty Images)](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/GettyImages-2196094166-1200x667.jpg)
8 hostages, including 5 Thai nationals, return to Israel following chaotic scenes in Gaza
Philissa Cramer, JTA
• Published January 30, 2025
![Former U.S. congressman Lee Zeldin speaking with attendees at the Republican Jewish Coalition's 2023 Annual Leadership Summit at the Venetian Convention & Expo Center in Las Vegas. Credit: Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Lee-Zeldin-1200x675.jpg)
Lee Zeldin confirmed as head of US Environmental Protection Agency
JNS Staff
• Published January 29, 2025
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