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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By Beth Harpaz, The Forward
• Published 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...
(JTA) — Dozens of Israeli and American nonprofits are protesting new government regulations that, they say, have forced them to halt the flow of donated gear for Israeli soldiers.
In response, a government official has vowed to address the problem.
The...
(JTA) — Vandals in Cincinnati damaged or knocked over 176 gravestones at two historic Jewish cemeteries over the course of the past week.
A joint statement from the local Jewish federation, Jewish Community Relations Council and Jewish Cemeteries...
By Benyamin Cohen, The Forward
• Published July 2, 2024
Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters spent a decade teaching high school history — the Mayflower, the Constitutional Convention, Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King, Jr. — and noticed a throughline: For many key figures in American history,...
If former President Trump incited a riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, was he doing so as the sitting president, or as a private citizen? This may seem rather beside the point — the federal case against the president alleges that he was trying to overturn...
