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Tucker Carlson takes aim at the Anti-Defamation League in a monologue on Fox News, April 12, 2021. (Screenshot)

Why did Tucker Carlson talk about Israeli immigration policy?

April 16, 2021
An Israeli woman has her temperature taken before entering the Mahane Yehuda market in Israel, part of a national effort to halt the spread of the coronavirus, June 16, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Starting Sunday, Israelis won’t be required to wear masks outdoors

April 16, 2021
Robert Lappin’s charitable foundation was nearly wiped out through the downfall of Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. (Lappin Foundation)

How the Bernie Madoff scandal rocked the American Jewish world

April 14, 2021

Bernie Madoff, whose Ponzi scheme devastated the Jewish world, dies in prison at 82: Report

April 14, 2021

Former ADL chief Abe Foxman says he would still give an award to Rupert Murdoch

April 13, 2021
El Al Israel Airlines departure counter is pictured empty after it cancelled flights to Italy at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, on February 27, 2020 (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel to allow vaccinated tour groups starting in May

April 13, 2021
Tucker Carlson

Fox News to ADL: We won’t fire Tucker Carlson for endorsing a white supremacist theory

April 12, 2021
New Knesset memberOfer Cassif at the Knesset Plenary Hall, ahead of the opening Knesset session of the new government, on April 29, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90

Israeli police beat up and kneel on the face of left-wing Jewish lawmaker

April 9, 2021
Tucker Ford

ADL chief calls for Tucker Carlson’s ouster after Fox News host endorses white supremacist conspiracy theory

April 9, 2021

Accused Monsey stabber again found unfit to stand trial

April 9, 2021
Kendall Michaels, a Jewish senior who said she had experienced anti-Semitism on campus, worked with student senators to craft the bill under debate. (Courtesy of Michaels) 

Inside the debate over Judaism and Zionism that quietly roiled the University of Iowa

April 7, 2021

Netanyahu again tapped to form Israeli government without clear path to majority

April 6, 2021
Mansour Abbas, head of Israel's Islamic Raam party, speaks during a press conference in the northern city of Nazareth, April 1, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images)

Who is Mansour Abbas, the Arab-Israeli who could hold the key to Israel’s next government?

April 2, 2021
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - JANUARY 05 2020: (L_R) Chirlane Irene McCray, Mayor of New York Bill de Blasio, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Senator Chuck Schumer, Governor Andrew Cuomo, US Representative Jerry Nadler and members of the Jewish community take part during a No hate no fear solidarity march. As anti-Semitic incidents have increased in New York City as well as the United States, demonstrators held no hate no fear solidarity march. Representatives from various Jewish organisations as well as marchers from around the country joined the New Yorkers to call for an end to religious bigotry.

1 in 4 American Jews has experienced anti-Semitism since 2016, ADL finds

March 31, 2021
Yellow Star of David

Vaccine passports are being compared to yellow Stars of David from the Holocaust

March 30, 2021
Rabbi Gilad Kariv seen at the courtroom of the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem before the start of a court hearing about public transportation on Shabbat, Sept. 11, 2017. Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

It’s official: Gilad Kariv will be the first Reform rabbi in Israel’s parliament

March 24, 2021
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a rally in his support in Jerusalem, ahead of the Likud primaries later this week. December 22, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Netanyahu leads narrowly in Israeli election exit polls

March 23, 2021
A previous Israeli election billboard in Jerusalem for the Likud party shows President Donald Trump shaking hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, also the Likud party chairman, Sept. 16, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)

Claims of fraud, a delayed result and fears of insurrection: Israel’s elections could look a lot like America’s

March 22, 2021
A recent photo of Ruben Golran, whose bar mitzvah in February 2020 was canceled due to early COVID restrictions in Italy. He celebrated in synagogue almost exactly a year later. (Courtesy of Elia Golran)

In Italy, a belated bar mitzvah celebration gives way to renewed virus fears

March 22, 2021

Jerusalem’s Biblical Zoo is attempting damage control after kids saw a lion eat a bunny

March 22, 2021
Charles Barkley speaks at the podium prior to his sculpture being unveiled at the Philadelphia 76ers training facility in Camden, N.J., Sept. 13, 2019. (Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)

Charles Barkley’s hora at his daughter’s Jewish wedding went fine

March 21, 2021
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media in Jerusalem, Aug. 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) 

More than 20,000 protest outside Netanyahu’s residence days before Israeli election

March 21, 2021
Supporters of Israel's Likud party lift a banner depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the election campaign at Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, March 19, 2021. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images)

New rivals, same storyline: What to know about Israel’s 4th election in 2 years

March 19, 2021

650 pounds of matzah are being shipped to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states

March 19, 2021
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, pictured here in 2019, vetoed a bill to make the ethnic studies curriculum a graduation requirement following objections to the content of its first draft. (Agustin Paullier/AFP via Getty Images)

California approves ethnic studies curriculum that sparked debate among Jewish groups

March 18, 2021
White Supremacy

White supremacist propaganda nearly doubled in 2020 to most in a decade, ADL says

March 17, 2021
riot

Capitol rioter with ‘Hitler mustache’ who talked about eating Jews is a Navy contractor and Army reservist

March 16, 2021
(Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Tattered copy of ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ found at Capitol Police checkpoint

March 15, 2021
Israeli Army

Israel’s military says it has reached herd immunity to COVID

March 11, 2021
John J. Brown

John J. Brown, who bought hametz from thousands of Jews each year before Passover, dies at 88

March 11, 2021
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits at the Home Front Command base in Ramla on August 4, 2020. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90

Benjamin Netanyahu: Court ruling creates danger of Israel being ‘overrun’ by ‘fake’ converts from Africa

March 9, 2021
eBay logo is seen displayed on a phone screen in this illustration photo taken in Poland on November 29, 2020. (Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

eBay removes Nazi toys from its marketplace

March 5, 2021

Leading Canadian newspaper deletes op-ed about COVID asking ‘What would Anne Frank do?’

March 4, 2021
New immigrants from North America arrive on a special

Orthodox and secular Israelis are fighting over Jewish conversion. Why?

March 4, 2021

Vaccinated Israelis will soon be able to take a cruise to Greece and Cyprus

March 2, 2021

Self-described ‘skinhead’ who schemed to blow up Colorado synagogue sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison

March 2, 2021
Frontier Logo

Frontier Airlines says it kicked a Hasidic family off flight because they weren’t wearing masks. The family claims they were.

March 1, 2021
Borans

Longtime AEPi executive who was affiliated with Turning Point USA is stepping down

March 1, 2021
Israel Supreme Court

Israeli Supreme Court rules state must grant citizenship to non-Orthodox Jewish converts in Israel

March 1, 2021
ORLANDO, FL - FEBRUARY 28: Former President Donald J Trump speaks during the final day of the Conservative Political Action Conference CPAC held at the Hyatt Regency Orlando on Sunday, Feb 28, 2021 in Orlando, FL. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

CPAC denies its stage was a Nazi symbol, as host hotel calls the symbol ‘abhorrent’

March 1, 2021
Tufts

Tufts pro-Israel Jewish student official no longer facing impeachment

February 27, 2021
Lowell

Massachusetts school board member announces resignation 2 days after using anti-Semitic slur on TV

February 26, 2021

School board member in Massachusetts called someone a ‘kike’ on live TV

February 25, 2021
Build Israel Great Again

After spat over support of Trump, Young Israel council replaces entire board

February 23, 2021
(Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

CPAC cancels speaker who said Judaism is a ‘complete lie’

February 22, 2021
muscles

‘Want to see my muscles?’ An 81-year-old American bubbe at an Israeli gym gave the best interview ever.

February 22, 2021

FBI arrests Capitol rioter who said Jews and Israel control other governments

February 19, 2021

Prisoner swap brings Israeli woman home from Syria, with Putin’s help

February 19, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 09: House impeachment managers, lead by Congressman Jamie Raskin, Lead Manager, proceed through the Capitol Rotunda from the House side of the U.S. Capitol to the U.S. Senate chamber as the second impeachment trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump begins February 9, 2021 in Washington, DC. House impeachment managers will make the case that Trump was singularly responsible for the January 6th attack at the U.S. Capitol and he should be convicted and barred from ever holding public office again. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)

Republican official deletes comment suggesting Trump’s trial was less fair than Nazi show trials

February 14, 2021
Jason Biggs

Jason Biggs jokes ‘I won’t get any more work,’ if Hollywood realizes he isn’t actually Jewish

February 14, 2021
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