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U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he has withdrawn his nominee for U.N. ambassador over concerns about the Republican majority in the House of Representatives.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

A child carries a sign reading in Arabic: "The children of Palestine: We want to live", during a rally calling for an end to the war, in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on March 25, 2025. Hundreds of Palestinians chanted anti-Hamas slogans at a protest in northern Gaza on March 25, calling for an end to the war with Israel, witnesses said. (AFP via Getty Images)

Palestinian anti-Hamas protesters march in Gaza in a rare and risky show of dissent

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished March 26, 2025

(JTA) — Hundreds of men shouting criticism of Hamas marched in Gaza on Tuesday,  according to footage shared from the territory the terror group has long governed. Protests took place Tuesday and Wednesday throughout the enclave, including in Khan...

Sunday school students lead morning services at Temple B'nai Israel in Oklahoma City. (Ty Faulkner Branum)

Nearly a quarter of Americans raised Jewish have left the religion, survey says

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished March 26, 2025

Almost one in four U.S. adults raised Jewish do not identify as religiously Jewish anymore, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center. The study, published Wednesday, surveyed “religious switching” around the world, and found that...

A United Airlines Boeing 757-33. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

United Airlines sued after pilot forces open airplane bathroom door on Orthodox Jew

JNS StaffPublished March 25, 2025

Despite having been notified that an Orthodox Jewish man in an airplane restroom had a medical condition, a United Airlines pilot allegedly forced the bathroom door open, thus exposing the man and causing “public embarrassment and anxiety,” according...

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, President Trump's nominee to be ambassador to Israel, testifies during his confirmation hearing. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Huckabee does not shy away from his Christian Zionist beliefs at hearing to be ambassador to Israel

Grace Gilson JTAPublished March 25, 2025

(JTA) — Mike Huckabee, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to Israel, told senators that while he personally supports Israel annexing the West Bank, he wouldn’t be directing the president’s policy in the region. He also said Trump...

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee moderates a roundtable discussion with Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump at the Drexelbrook Catering & Event Center, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, Oct. 29, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

What Jewish groups are saying ahead of Mike Huckabee’s confirmation hearing to be Israel ambassador

Ben Sales, JTAPublished March 25, 2025

Mike Huckabee will appear before a Senate committee on Tuesday morning ahead of a vote on his nomination to be U.S. ambassador to Israel. The former Arkansas governor and evangelical pastor is a staunch Christian Zionist who has called for Israel to control...

Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham at the 97th Oscars held at the Dolby Theatre on March 2, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Rich Polk/Penske Media via Getty Images)

‘No Other Land’ director reportedly beaten and arrested in West Bank

By Ben Sales, JTAPublished March 24, 2025

Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian directors of the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” was beaten by West Bank settlers and then taken from his ambulance by the Israeli military, according to a local publication and fellow activists. “Now:...

Max Frankel in 1959 working as the New York Times' Moscow correspondent. (Ben Martin/Getty Images)

Max Frankel, Jewish New York Times executive editor who fled the Nazis, dies at 94

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished March 24, 2025

(JTA) — Max Frankel, the former executive editor of The New York Times who fled the Nazis as a child, died at 94. Frankel died Sunday at his Manhattan home, according to an obituary in the Times. Frankel began working at the Times at age 19 as...

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