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Palestinians walk along destroyed houses at the Shaboura area in the center of Rafah, days into the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, Jan 24, 2025.

Hamas says that it will delay next hostage release

By Ben Sales, JTAPublished February 10, 2025

Hamas announced that it will delay its next release of Israeli hostages, claiming that Israel has violated the ceasefire agreement. The announcement came two days after the last hostage release sparked outrage in Israel and beyond, as the three released...

Kanye West and Bianca Censori attend the 67th Grammy Awards at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, Feb. 2, 2025.

Thanking Elon Musk for ‘allowing me to vent,’ Kanye West quits X after antisemitic rant

By Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished February 10, 2025

Two days after drawing attention for a string of antisemitic posts, the rapper and artist Ye says he has signed off X. Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, announced late Sunday that he was quitting the platform, owned by Elon Musk. Musk invited the artist...

A protester holds a Sudan/Palestinian flag with the words "Gaza" and "Sudan" as US rapper Kendrick Lamar performs during thee Super Bowl LIX halftime show, Feb. 9, 2025.

Super Bowl performer ejected after displaying Palestinian/Sudanese flag that said ‘Gaza’

By Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished February 10, 2025

A performer unfurled a banner showing the Sudanese and Palestinian flags and the words “Sudan” and “Gaza” during Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Sunday. The performer, who was not immediately identified,...

Yad Vashem’s Holocaust survivor art exhibit at New York’s City Hall. (Yad Vashem)

Unique Yad Vashem exhibit and street naming highlight NYC’s commitment to remember the Holocaust

Larry Luxner, JTAPublished February 9, 2025

(JTA) — A unique Holocaust art exhibition opened this week in New York’s City Hall. In “The Wandering Jew,” a 1947 oil-and-canvas painting by Dutch artist Eliazer Neuberger, a barefoot man wearing torn garments gazes forward while behind him...

Sasha Chanoff, right, founder and CEO of RefugePoint, reviews a case with a staff worker and a refugee client in Kenya enrolled in the organization’s Nairobi-based Urban Refugee Protection Program. (Courtesy of RefugePoint)

As winds shift against immigrants, refugee resettlement advocate Sasha Chanoff steps up

Larry Luxner, JTAPublished February 9, 2025

(JTA) — Sasha Chanoff recalls the day he was forced to make one of the most painful decisions of his life. It was 2000, only six years after the genocide in Rwanda, and Chanoff — a Finnish-born Jew working with the International Organization for...

Kanye West seen in Los Angeles, May 13, 2023. (MEGA/GC Images)

Kanye embarks on a new antisemitic spree on X, saying, ‘I’m never apologizing for my Jewish comments’

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished February 7, 2025

Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, flooded the social network X with antisemitic comments early Friday morning, in a repeat of the spree that cost him his fashion deals and public esteem two years ago. In dozens of tweets to his 32 million...

Snoop Dogg (left) and Tom Brady star in a Super Bowl ad calling out hate, produced by Robert Kraft’s foundation.

Snoop Dogg, Tom Brady fighting hate in Super Bowl ad

Jacob Gurvis, JTAPublished February 6, 2025

When more than 100 million viewers tune into the Super Bowl on Sunday, they’ll see Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady go toe to toe in a 30-second spot, screaming in each other’s faces.  The commercial is the second annual Super Bowl ad produced by the...

Steve Witkoff, businessman and developer, speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum.

Witkoff: Gaza unfit to live in, Trump seeks long-term solutions

JNS StaffPublished February 5, 2025

U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff on Tuesday backed U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate Palestinians from Gaza, arguing that a better life is not necessarily tied to a given piece of land. In an interview with Fox News, Witkoff emphasized...

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

Josh Hawley and pro-Israel Dem group comment on Trump’s proposed Gaza plan

JNS StaffPublished February 5, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks on Tuesday evening that the United States “will take over the Gaza Strip” are “cruel, immoral and impractical,” Mark Mellman, the president and CEO of Democratic Majority for Israel, stated on Wednesday. “One...

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.

US Jewish groups respond to Trump’s Gaza comments

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished February 5, 2025

(JTA) — Reactions from partisan American Jewish groups to President Donald Trump’s proposals for Gaza — that “all” Palestinians leave and the United States “take over” the territory — began flowing in just as soon as their leaders picked...

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.

Trump: ‘The US will take over the Gaza Strip’

Ben Sales, JTAPublished February 4, 2025

President Donald Trump said that the United States would take control of the Gaza Strip after the war there ends, a dramatic pledge and sharp change from previous American policy in the region. Trump made the pledge in a press conference on Tuesday...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu participate in a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House,

‘The US will take over the Gaza Strip,’ Trump says

Andrew Bernard, JNSPublished February 4, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump said that the United States will “take over” and rebuild the Gaza Strip during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday. “The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job...

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