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U.S. politician Bernie Sanders at the launch of his book "It's Okay to Be Angry at Capitalism" at the House of World Cultures in Berlin, Oct. 12, 2023. (Jens Kalaene/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Senate rejects Bernie Sanders’ proposal to block some weapons sales to Israel

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished April 3, 2025

A joint resolution proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders to block the sale of bombs and other weapons to Israel was voted down in the Senate on Thursday. The resolution was rejected by a tally of 82-15, with Democrats compromising all of the “yes” votes....

The Super 4 Seasons car wash in Spring Valley, New York. (Screenshot)

NY attorney general orders car wash to stop ripping off Jews with antisemitic ‘Passover special’

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished April 1, 2025

(JTA) — Last year, New York’s attorney general started investigating a car wash that, her office suspected, was scamming Jewish customers. Now, Letitia James is ordering that business to end its “Passover special” — a car-cleaning offer that...

Princeton University (Flickr Commons)

Trump administration freezes research funding to Princeton amid antisemitism investigations

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished April 1, 2025

Princeton University has become the latest in a string of Ivy League universities to have its federal funding threatened by the Trump administration amid investigations of antisemitism on campus. The university’s president, Christopher Eisgruber,...

Chicago resident Peter Katz found stickers with Nazi symbolism on his Tesla last month. (Facebook)

A Chicagoan wanted to protest Elon Musk — and put a swastika sticker on a Jewish man’s Tesla

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished April 1, 2025

As he walked up to his Tesla just days after his twins’ b’nai mitzvah last month, Peter Katz was surprised to find a sticker with a swastika. Another one offered an explanation. It read “Heil Elon.” People have vandalized Tesla dealerships,...

The scarab seal from Tel Azekah. Photo by Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority.

Toddler finds 3,800-year-old amulet on family trip

JNS StaffPublished April 1, 2025

In early March, during a family trip to Tel Azekah near Beit Shemesh, three-and-a-half-year-old Ziv Nitzan from Moshav Ramot Meir stumbled upon an extraordinary piece of history—an ancient scarab amulet dating back approximately 3,800 years. The young...

A can of memories: how one family’s sardine salad tells a story of survival and tradition

A can of memories: how one family’s sardine salad tells a story of survival and tradition

By Margi Lenga Kahn, Special To The Jewish LightPublished April 1, 2025

Not everyone is a fan of sardines. Perhaps you have tried them and enjoyed them, or didn’t enjoy them, or perhaps you are thinking, “Why would I want to eat sardines?”  Sardines are among the healthiest, most sustainable and least expensive fish...

The "National Menorah," erected by Chabad-Lubavitch in front of the White House in Washington, Dec. 2, 2021. (Kerem Yucel/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Washington, D.C., Jewish federation will distribute $180,000 to laid-off federal workers

By Grace Gilson, JTAPublished March 28, 2025

Washington, D.C.’s Jewish federation is allocating $180,000 to help laid-off federal workers, the latest way the Trump administration’s slashing of the federal government is rippling out to Jewish organizations. The sum is a multiple of 18, which...

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, testifies before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January  21, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Trump withdraws Stefanik nomination for UN envoy

JNS StaffPublished March 27, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he has withdrawn his nominee for U.N. ambassador over concerns about the Republican majority in the House of Representatives. Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform that he had asked Rep....

Palestinians take part in an anti-Hamas protest, calling to end the war with Israel, in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, March 26, 2025. Credit: Flash90. | Flash90

Two-state solution talk ‘not getting anywhere,’ says Gazan protesting Hamas

JNS StaffPublished March 27, 2025

Thousands of anti-Hamas protesters in Gaza, who have made international headlines, aim to convey that the terror organization must “get out of the picture” and have no role in the Strip, a 25-year-old law student at Islamic University of Gaza who...

Chaim Grade’s "Sons and Daughters" was originally serialized in the 1960s and '70s, in New York–based Yiddish newspapers. (YIVO; Alfred. A. Knopf)

How the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade’s last novel was rescued from the archives, and wrestled into print

Andrew Silow-CarrollPublished March 27, 2025

Sixty years after he first began serializing it in the Yiddish press, and 42 years after publisher Alfred A. Knopf acquired the book, “Sons and Daughters” — the last novel by the late, great Yiddish novelist Chaim Grade — is landing in bookstores...

Rabbi Ari Berman, president of Yeshiva University, speaks during an event in August 2024. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

After announcing LGBTQ club, Yeshiva U president says Pride values ‘antithetical’ to the school

Ben Sales, JTAPublished March 27, 2025

Days after Yeshiva University announced that it would recognize a club supporting LGBTQ students, its president said the values espoused by a typical “Pride” club are “antithetical” to the school. Rabbi Ari Berman also claimed that the Modern...

Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot pose at the D23 Expo in 2022. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney)

Disney reportedly hired extra security for Gal Gadot after Rachel Zegler’s ‘Free Palestine’ tweet

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished March 26, 2025

(JTA) — When Rachel Zegler tweeted “free palestine” last year after sharing the trailer for her latest movie, the live-action “Snow White,” millions of people saw it — more than 9 million, as of this week. But until Tuesday, few knew the...

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