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What American Jews should know about Project 2025 and its connection to Christian Nationalism

What American Jews should know about Project 2025 and its connection to Christian Nationalism

By Louis Keene, The ForwardPublished July 11, 2024

Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda years in the making, has vaulted into American political consciousness in recent days. President Joe Biden wants you to think the mysterious project is the heart of his Republican rival’s platform, despite...

Yitskhok Rudashevski

Discover the lost diary of a Holocaust teenager from your home in St. Louis

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished July 11, 2024

You may not know his name, or his diary, but just like Anne Frank's written words, Yitskhok Rudashevski’s writings stand as a powerful testament to the voices of teenagers lost in the Holocaust. Rudashevski was not just a teenager; he was a gifted...

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a campaign rally in the Bronx, June 22, 2024. (Luke Tress)

Far-left group pulls endorsement of Ocasio-Cortez after she hosts panel on antisemitism

Luke Tress, JTAPublished July 11, 2024

The Democratic Socialists of America dropped its endorsement of New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after she hosted a panel discussion on antisemitism. The DSA said in a Tuesday statement that it was rescinding its conditional endorsement of Ocasio-Cortez’s...

Mordechai Rosenstein, seen in 2014 at a sale of his works, combined bright colors and stylized Hebrew letters for pieces that hang in countless homes, offices and synagogues. (Courtesy Rosenstein Arts, via Facebook)

Mordechai Rosenstein, calligrapher whose art illuminates Jewish homes and synagogues, dies at 90

Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAPublished July 11, 2024

Mordechai Rosenstein, a painter and calligrapher whose brightly colored illuminations of Hebrew texts adorn countless Jewish homes, offices and synagogues, died on July 9 in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. He was 90. His signature pieces featured Hebrew...

Candace Owens speaking at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland.

Far-right commentator doubts Mengele experiments, calls them ‘propaganda’

JNS StaffPublished July 10, 2024

Far-right political commentator and talk-show host Candace Owens, who was let go from The Daily Wire in March over anti-Jewish rhetoric, dipped her toe into antisemitic waters once again. She called the torturous “experiments” on Jewish and other...

A statue of Anne Frank in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Nov. 26, 2010. The statue was defaced with graffiti reading "Gaza" on July 9, 2024. (Gus Maussen via Creative Commons)

Anne Frank statue in Amsterdam tagged with ‘Gaza’ graffiti

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished July 10, 2024

A statue of Anne Frank in Amsterdam was defaced Tuesday, with the word “Gaza” painted in red on the base. The statue sits in a public park near the famous annex where Frank and her family hid from the Nazis, and where they were later discovered.  Mayor...

Democratic platform committee hears witnesses clash over aid to Israel

Democratic platform committee hears witnesses clash over aid to Israel

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished July 9, 2024

WASHINGTON — The committee drafting the Democratic platform heard clashing visions of what the party’s Israel policy should be, with two witnesses urging continued military aid and one urging cuts. Tuesday’s online meeting, convened by a subcommittee...

The GOP platform: Supporting Israel, Fighting ‘anti-Christian bias’ and deporting ‘pro-Hamas radicals’

The GOP platform: Supporting Israel, Fighting ‘anti-Christian bias’ and deporting ‘pro-Hamas radicals’

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished July 9, 2024

WASHINGTON — The 2024 GOP platform pledges to fight antisemitism and to keep Israel safe. It promises to fight anti-Christian bias as well as “gender insanity.” And it vows, in all-caps, to “DEPORT PRO-HAMAS RADICALS AND MAKE OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES...

Ora, 84, and Yaakov, 97, Manloon, married Bnei Menashe immigrants from India, hold a “ketubah” marriage contract as they get married according to Jewish law in Kiryat Arba on May 2, 2008. Photo by Michal Fattal/Flash90.

800-year-old Hebrew-inscribed tombstone discovered in India

JNS StaffPublished July 8, 2024

A Hebrew-inscribed tombstone dating to the 13th century has been discovered in southern India. The tombstone was found on a coconut farm in the city of Ramanathapuram in the state of Tamil Nadu, The Week reported on Friday. Thoufeek Zakriya, a Jewish...

Mothers  of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza protest for their release outside the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, July 8, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Netanyahu issues list of demands for ceasefire deal as pressure mounts

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished July 8, 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out conditions for a ceasefire deal with Hamas as pressure ramped up at home and abroad for an outcome that would bring home the more than 100 Israeli hostages held by the terror group in Gaza. Netanyahu’s...

Yitzhak Yifat (center) and other Israeli paratroopers reach the Western Wall in Jerusalem, June 7, 1967. Photo by David Rubinger/GPO.

Paratrooper at center of iconic Six-Day War photo dead at 81

David Issac, JNSPublished July 7, 2024

The central figure in an iconic 1967 photograph of three paratroopers at the liberated Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem died on Saturday. Yitzhak Yifat was 81. Yifat, 24 at the time the photo was taken, can be seen in the center of the...

Detail from a montage depicting Mrs. Mandelbaum’s ill-gotten gains and the raid on her shop, from an 1884 issue of the National Police Gazette, a 19th- and early 20th-century scandal sheet.

Mrs. Mandelbaum was a nice Jewish mother — and an organized-crime boss

By Beth Harpaz, The ForwardPublished July 7, 2024

She was an adoring Jewish mother, a generous benefactor to her synagogue, Rodeph Sholom, and a proper 19th century lady who wore floor-length silk gowns.  But Fredericka Mandelbaum was also what her biographer, Margalit Fox, calls “America’s...

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