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Bomb squads set up a staging area following an incident involving multiple injuries that the FBI is investigating as an act of terror on June 1, 2025 in Boulder, Colorado. A suspect is in custody after reportedly throwing an incendiary device at a group participating in an organized walk near the courthouse to show solidarity with hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.  (Chet Strange/Getty Images)

FBI, DHS issue warning of ‘elevated threat’ to Jewish and Israeli communities

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished June 6, 2025

In the wake of two violent attacks on Jewish community events in recent weeks, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security have issued a public service announcement warning of an “elevated threat” to Jews and Israeli communities. In their announcement...

Isaac Dechtman of Denver and his parents Evan and Jennifer comfort each other at the Boulder County Courthouse on Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado, on June 3, 2025, two days after 12 people marching to raise awareness for Israeli hostages in Gaza were injured in a "targeted act of violence" by a man wielding incendiary devices. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

We Jews know what hate looks like. So why is it so hard to name when it comes for us?

Iola Kostrzewski, JTAPublished June 4, 2025

I am Black. I am Jewish. I work in the field of hate crimes not only as a professional who responds to incidents, builds coalitions and educates others but as someone who has lived their reality. I carry it in my skin. In my breath. In my children’s...

Israeli troops preparing for battle during the Six-Day War in 1967.  (Three Lions/Getty Images)

Six surprising stories you didn’t know about the Six-Day War

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished June 3, 2025

Nearly sixty years after the Six-Day War, certain moments are etched into history: paratroopers at the Western Wall, soldiers swimming in the Suez, and Naomi Shemer’s “Jerusalem of Gold,” rewritten to celebrate reclaimed access to the Old City. But...

Lisa Turnquist of Louisville, Colorado, lays flowers and a flag at the site of the attack outside the Boulder County Courthouse on June 2, 2025 in Boulder. (Chet Strange/Getty Images)

Man charged with hate crime in Boulder firebombing wanted to ‘kill all Zionist people,’ FBI says

JTA StaffPublished June 3, 2025

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the man accused of firebombing people marching to raise awareness of Israeli hostages in Gaza, had planned the attack for over a year, local and federal authorities said on Monday as they charged him with attempted murder and a...

Usually, a mezuzah is a sign of a Jewish house — but imagine stepping closer to see that the mezuzah on the door is engraved with a cross. Illustration by Mira Fox/Canva

The Jesus mezuzah? Why this Christian twist is sparking Jewish outrage

By Mira Fox, The ForwardPublished June 1, 2025

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. There’s a new TikTok trend for Christian influencers: gluing a small, rectangular box with a scroll inside,...

Police work at the scene after an attack that injured multiple people in Boulder, Colorado, U.S. June 1, 2025 in a still image from video. ABC AFFILIATE KMGH via REUTERS

Firebombed for marching: Jewish seniors attacked, burned in Colorado

JNS StaffPublished June 1, 2025

(JTA) — Multiple people were burned and injured in Boulder, Colorado, in what the local Jewish community said was a firebombing attack on people who had gathered to draw attention to the Israeli hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza. Miri Kornfeld,...

Rep. Elise Stefanik testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on her nomination to be Ambassador to the United Nations on Jan. 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Trump ally targets Truman scholar for being ‘pro-Hamas’

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished May 30, 2025

(JTA) — A Trump-aligned congresswoman is calling on a federally funded scholarship to revoke its award to a Harvard student accused of antisemitism and pro-Hamas activism. Rep. Elise Stefanik, recently appointed to the board of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship...

An illustration of Alfred Dreyfus on a horse. They are many people surrounding him, gesturing in the exact same way.

Framed because he was Jewish. Now, France wants to make it right

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished May 30, 2025

Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish French army officer famously and falsely convicted of treason in 1894, may finally receive posthumous justice. This week, a French parliamentary committee unanimously approved a bill to promote Dreyfus—more than 130 years...

Yitzhak Rabin, shown in 1975, became prime minister June 3, 1974, less than five months after he was first elected to the Knesset. Photo: Ya’acov Sa’ar, Israeli Government Press Office, CC BY-SA 3.0

This week in Israeli history: May 29-June 4

Published May 29, 2025

May 29, 1979 — Dayan Addresses Peace Process Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan speaks to the Knesset about the events that culminated in the peace treaty Israel and Egypt signed two months earlier. Dayan emphasizes Israel’s commitment to peace and its...

Israeli forces at the site of the May 14, 2025, shooting attack in the northern West Bank. (Israel Defense Forces/X)

Baby born after pregnant woman was killed in terror attack dies of his wounds

Ben Sales, JTAPublished May 29, 2025

Two weeks ago, an Israeli pregnant woman who was en route to deliver her baby was killed in a shooting attack in the West Bank. On Thursday morning, doctors communicated that that baby had died of his wounds. In the terror attack, near the Israeli...

Holocaust survivor Helena Weinstock Weinrauch, who wore the same hand-knit sweater to the first Passover seder every year for the past 75 years, has died at 100. (Karen Goldfarb)

Helena Weinrauch, Holocaust survivor and ‘dancing angel,’ dies at 100

Jackie Hajdenberg, JTAPublished May 28, 2025

(New York Jewish Week) — New Yorker Helena Weinstock Weinrauch, a Holocaust survivor known for taking up ballroom dancing in her late 80s, died at her home on the Upper West Side on Sunday. She was just one week shy of her 101st birthday. The cause...

Following the cancellation of "Bring the Family Home" by Facets, CJA rescheduled the screening at the Wilmette Theater in suburban Chicago on May 13, 2025. (Ronit Bezalel)

A Chicago theater canceled a pro-Israel movie screening, relented — then canceled again

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished May 28, 2025

Soon after a Chicago theater canceled a screening of a documentary about campus antisemitism, its operators had second thoughts. Facing a firestorm of criticism charging the theater with antisemitism, the operators of Facets Film Forum said they would...

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