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All Texas synagogue hostages ‘out alive and safe’ after harrowing 12-hour standoff

All Texas synagogue hostages ‘out alive and safe’ after harrowing 12-hour standoff

January 15, 2022
Dianne Feinstein talks to reporters as she exits the Senate floor, Oct. 6, 2018. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

After Patrick Leahy’s retirement, Dianne Feinstein could become the first Jew to be 3rd in line for the presidency

November 16, 2021
Former General Michael Flynn, former President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, speaks during a protest of the outcome of the 2020 presidential election outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, Dec. 12, 2020. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Jewish groups join denouncers of Michael Flynn for calling on the US to have ‘one religion’

November 15, 2021
Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-Bronx/Westchester, left, meets with Sally Abed and Alon-Lee Green of Standing Together, a progressive Jewish-Arab grassroots movement, during his visit to Israel and Palestinian-controlled areas as part of a Congressional delegation arranged by J Street, Nov. 8, 2021. (Via Twitter)

Jamaal Bowman, Squad member, joins J Street tour of Israel and meets Yair Lapid

November 9, 2021
Rabbi Yudi Steiner leads George Washington University students in song and dance as they mark the destruction of an imitation Torah in a frat house in Washington DC, Nov. 1, 2021. (Ron Kampeas)

On a Washington DC campus, an imitation Torah triggers real mourning

November 2, 2021
Sen. Ted Cruz asks Attorney General Merrick Garland a question at a Senate hearing in Washington, D.C.. Oct. 27, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Pool/Getty Images)

Ted Cruz defends using a Nazi salute to protest COVID-19 public health measures

October 28, 2021
Motorists drive past a closed Ben & Jerrys ice-cream shop in the Israeli city of Yavne, south of Tel Aviv, July 23, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images)

Florida halts new investments in Ben & Jerry’s parent company over West Bank sales boycott

October 26, 2021
Protesters with the Sunrise Movement protest in front of the White House against what they say is slow action on infrastructure legislation, job creation and addressing climate change, as well as against attempts to work with Senate Republicans in Washington, DC, June 4, 2021. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

The national Sunrise movement says it did not have advance notice of DC affiliate’s broadside against Jewish groups

October 21, 2021
Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) speaks during an Early Vote rally in Stafford, Virginia on October 19, 2021. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Glenn Youngkin, GOP nominee for Virginia governor, accuses George Soros of filling school boards with ‘disguised’ political operatives

October 21, 2021
Graphic of the Beresheet spacecraft (Courtesy/SpaceIL)

United Arab Emirates to join Israel in moon shot

October 20, 2021
Rachel Levine in Harrisburg, Penn., May 16, 2016. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Rachel Levine is named an admiral, becoming the most senior transgender person in the uniformed services

October 20, 2021
US Secretary of State Colin Powell, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon in Jerusalem on February 25, 2001. (Getty Images/Pool photo)

Colin Powell, who brokered the Middle East ‘road map’ to peace, dies at 84

October 18, 2021
From left, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan take part in a joint news conference at the State Department in Washington, Oct. 13, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/Pool/ AFP/via Getty Images)

With Yair Lapid at his side, Blinken uses a word that Israel has been longing to hear on Iran

October 14, 2021
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro at a rally in Philadelphia, March 2, 2017. (Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images)

Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s AG, declares candidacy for governor

October 11, 2021
Zev Zalman Ludwick, once a denizen of the heavy metal music scene, poses in his luthier studio in Silver Spring, Maryland on May 23, 2021. (Ron Kampeas)

Jews, drugs and rock ’n’ roll: The Jewish stories behind a heavy metal cult classic film

October 8, 2021
High waves break on the sea side promenade in the Omani capital Muscat, Oct. 2, 2021. (Mohammed Mahjoub/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel hints Oman is next to join Abraham Accords

October 6, 2021
White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham and Max Miller arrive in the Booksellers area of the White House to attend a state dinner honoring Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, in Washington, DC, on Sept. 20, 2019. (Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images)

Former Trump aide Stephanie Grisham accuses Jewish congressional candidate Max Miller of abuse

October 6, 2021
Sen. Rand Paul at a Senate committee hearing to discuss reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic on Capitol Hill, Sept. 30, 2021. (Greg Nash/Pool/Getty Images)

Rand Paul obstructs quick vote on Iron Dome funding

October 5, 2021
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to students in a political science class at George Mason University during a surprise visit to campus in Fairfax, Virginia, Sept. 28, 2021. (Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images)

Kamala Harris ‘strongly disagrees’ with student who said Israel was carrying out ethnic genocide

October 1, 2021
Sen. Rand Paul speaks during a hearing before Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill, July 25, 2018. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

In one more hurdle for Iron Dome, Rand Paul refuses to fast-track $1 billion in new funding

September 30, 2021
Rep. Andy Levin, D-Mich., is seen at the House steps of the Capitol during the last votes of the week on Thursday, May 20, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Andy Levin says his friendship with Rashida Tlaib gives him hope for Israel

September 30, 2021
A flier distributed by a Republican candidate for Virginias statehouse in the 2021 elections depicts the Jewish incumbent with piles of gold coins. (Ron Kampeas)

GOP flier in Virginia House race shows Jewish Democrat and a pile of gold coins

September 30, 2021
Reps. Jamaal Bowman and Pramila Jayapal speak on the steps to the U.S. Capitol, Sept. 23, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The vast majority of progressives overwhelmingly backed Iron Dome funding — but with a caveat

September 27, 2021
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett addresses the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City, Sept. 27, 2021. (John Minchillo/Pool/Getty Images)

In his first UN speech, Naftali Bennett sounded different than Netanyahu

September 27, 2021
‘Yes, I wept’: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explains her ‘present’ vote on Iron Dome, and the tears that followed

‘Yes, I wept’: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explains her ‘present’ vote on Iron Dome, and the tears that followed

September 24, 2021
A view of the U.N. General Assembly Hall. (Patrick Gruban/Wikimedia Commons)

More than 30 countries stay away from U.N. anniversary marking Durban conference

September 23, 2021
House of Delegates Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn, left, and President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas attend the State of the Commonwealth address at the state Capitol in Richmond, Virginia on Jan. 8, 2020. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

Virginia Republican apologizes, but not for antisemitism, after mocking Jewish House speaker’s nose

September 21, 2021
Sheila Bromberg shares a laugh with Ringo Starr on a BBC talk show in May 2011. (YouTube/Screenshot)

Sheila Bromberg, Jewish harpist who was first woman to play on a Beatles album, dies at 92

September 21, 2021
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken marks the anniversary of the Abraham Accords with, clockwise, diplomats from Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Bahrain, on Sept. 17, 2021. (Screenshot)

On Abraham Accords anniversary, there is accord on calling it ‘Abraham’

September 20, 2021
Chris Christie speaks at the Concordia Annual Summit in New York City, Sept. 23, 2019. (Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)

Middle school goes virtual because of COVID outbreak at the bar mitzvah of Chris Christie’s nephew

September 20, 2021
Rep. Grace Meng of New York speaks during a faith vigil for victims of an earthquake in Haiti at the steps of St. Jeromes Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn, Aug. 16, 2021. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Muslims and Jews join in Congress to press US government for kosher and halal food relief

September 15, 2021
Naftali Bennett, left, chats with Mansour Abbas during a special session to vote on a new Israeli government at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 13, 2021. (Emmanuel Dunand /AFP via Getty Images)

Naftali Bennett makes the Time 100 list. It’s because of ‘courage,’ his Arab-Israeli coalition partner writes.

September 15, 2021
Damon Joseph told undercover FBI agents that he wanted to carry out a mass killing attack on a Toledo Jewish target. (U.S. Department of Justice)

Ohio man sentenced to 20 years for planned attack on Toledo synagogue

September 14, 2021
President Joe Biden meets Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the White House, Aug. 27, 2021. (Avi Ohayon/Israel Government Press Office)

Naftali Bennett says the US and Israel have set up joint team on containing Iran

September 3, 2021
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett chairs the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Aug. 22, 2021. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett: Israel will neither annex territory nor establish a Palestinian state on my watch

August 24, 2021
Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas speaks with reporters as he arrives in the Capitol for a vote, July 15, 2021. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

GOP senators want Trump era mandates on settlement products to become law

July 30, 2021
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump spotted with their children Arabella and Joseph at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, Sept. 22, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

Jared Kushner to leave politics to set up investment business with Israel focus, report claims

July 29, 2021
More U.S. Jews are calling Israel an ‘apartheid’ state, and organizations are struggling to fight the trend

More U.S. Jews are calling Israel an ‘apartheid’ state, and organizations are struggling to fight the trend

July 15, 2021
Do you know this Jew? He was once an adorable and very smart child star.

Do you know this Jew? He was once an adorable and very smart child star.

July 9, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C., June 14, 2021. (Screenshot/WTXL/Facebook)

Marjorie Taylor Greene invokes ‘medical brown shirts’ in decrying vaccination outreach

July 7, 2021
Rabbi Eliot Pearlson, in kippah, leads a psalm reading as he speaks to members of his congregation in the wake of the collapse of the Champlain Towers in Surfside, Fla., June 25, 2021. Pearlson, who has a number of his congregants among the missing, is the rabbi at Temple Menorah just a few blocks from the collapsed condos. (Zack Wittman for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

‘It’s going to be a rough road’: In Surfside, the Jewish community braces for bad news

June 26, 2021
President Donald J. Trump speaks during an election event at the White House in the early morning hours on Nov. 4, 2020. (Jabin Botsford/Washington Post via Getty Images)

Donald Trump again says American Jews ‘don’t love Israel enough’ and more should have voted for him

June 18, 2021
Pro-Palestinian protesters march in Dearborn, Mich., May 18, 2021. (Seth Herald/AFP via Getty Images)

Police chief in Michigan apologizes for liking pro-Israel Facebook post

May 30, 2021
Naftali Bennett on his way to announce in a press conference at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, that he will join Yair Lapids coalition, May 30, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Diverse group of Israeli parties agree to form coalition and oust Netanyahu

May 30, 2021
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bob Good speak following a vote at the U.S. Capitol, Feb. 4, 2021. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Marjorie Taylor Greene doubles down on comparing mask mandates to Holocaust

May 24, 2021
President Joe Biden leaves Holy Trinity Catholic Church in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., Jan. 24, 2021. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)

President Biden: Attacks on Jewish community ‘must stop’

May 24, 2021
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the weekly Cabinet meeting, at Jerusalem City Hall, May 9, 2021. (Amit Shabi/POOL)

With violence escalating in Israel, who’s in charge? The answer is not reassuring.

May 11, 2021
An Overland Park police vehicle sits in front of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City, Kan., following shootings there and later at a nearby assisted-living complex that killed a total of three people, April 13, 2014. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Overland Park killer dies the day a book memorializing his victims is published

May 4, 2021
President Joe Biden, speaking from the White House at a virtual event hosted by the Munich Security Conference, said the U.S. and its allies must address Irans destabilizing influence, Feb. 19, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images)

Biden’s Jewish Heritage Month message nods to Schumer and Emhoff for setting precedents

May 2, 2021
Hundreds of Orthodox Jews mourn at the Jerusalem funeral for Yehuda Lev Lubin, one of 45 victims from the Mount Meron Lag bOmer stampede, April 30, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel starts burying victims of Meron disaster

May 2, 2021
Pope Francis, seen at a Holy Mass in Vatican City in June 2019. (Grzegorz Galazka/Archivio Grzegorz Galazka/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

Pope Francis mourns Meron victims

May 2, 2021
A volunteer with the ZAKA response group walks through the debris left in the aftermath of the stampede in Meron, Israel, April 30, 2021. (ZAKA/Aharon Baruch Leibowitz)

As Israel buries Mount Meron victims, attention turns to what allowed deadly stampede to occur

April 30, 2021
President Joe Biden, in offering assistance to Israel, said we will stand with our friends. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Biden offers assistance to Israel in aftermath of Lag b’Omer tragedy

April 30, 2021
US President Joe Biden, flanked by US Vice President Kamala Harris (on the left and Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi , smiles as he addresses a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on April 28, 2021. (Doug Mills /Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden: white supremacists are the ‘most lethal terrorist threat’

April 28, 2021
An Israeli checkpoint is seen during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan as COVID-19 measures continue in the West Bank city of Hebron, April 20, 2021. (Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Human Rights Watch says Israel has crossed ‘apartheid’ threshold

April 28, 2021
The Virginia Republican Party State Central Committee votes on a number of measures at a virtual meeting, including a vote on whether to allow a religious exemption for Saturday convention voting, April 22, 2021. (Facebook)

Virginia Republicans reverse decision, will accommodate voting for Shabbat observers

April 26, 2021
People wave Armenian and U.S. flags in front of the U.S. Embassy in the Armenian capital Yerevan after President Joe Biden recognized the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide, April 24, 2021. (Karen Minasyan/AFP via Getty Images)

Jewish groups welcomed Biden’s designation of an Armenian genocide. It wasn’t always so.

April 26, 2021
Stray bullet kills Jewish reporter for NPR affiliate in Kansas City

Stray bullet kills Jewish reporter for NPR affiliate in Kansas City

April 26, 2021
In a video sent to media, Israeli U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan explains that he told the Security Council that Israel would not abide by any nuclear deal with Iran that did not end its enrichment altogether, April 22, 2021. (Screenshot)

Israeli ambassador: Israel will not abide by any Iran nuclear deal short of an end to enrichment

April 23, 2021

75% of House members back no conditions on aid to Israel

April 22, 2021
In this handout provided by the EU Delegation in Vienna, representatives of the European Union, Iran and others attend the Iran nuclear talks at the Grand Hotel in the Austrian capital, April 15, 2021. (EU Delegation in Vienna via Getty Images)

The pro-Israel Iran dilemma: How to influence a policy that Biden has yet to unveil

April 22, 2021
Rep. Gregory Meeks speaks at a news conference in New York City calling for a ban on police chokeholds, June 2, 2020. (Scott Heins/Getty Images)

In Congress, bipartisan support grows for bills backing expanded Israeli-Arab ties

April 21, 2021
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses J Street in a video broadcast at its national conference on April 18, 2021. (YouTube)

At J Street conference, Mahmoud Abbas says he’s ready to ‘remove obstacles’ to relations with US

April 20, 2021
Denver City Hall, Denver, Co. (Israeli-American Council)

These landmarks across the US lit up blue and white for Israel’s Independence Day

April 15, 2021
Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at a news conference in Brussels, April 14, 2021.

Antony Blinken expects other countries to sign onto Abraham Accords this year

April 15, 2021
Rep. Betty McCollum, seen in July 2020, is leading another attempt to restrict areas where Israel may spend U.S. funds. (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

J Street and Americans for Peace Now back bill that restricts Israeli spending of US aid

April 14, 2021

When a colleague compared a mental health bill to the Holocaust, she interrupted him. Meet Jewish Maryland lawmaker Shane Pendergrass.

April 13, 2021

Iran says it will enrich uranium closer to weaponization levels

April 13, 2021
UNRWA

Biden administration says it has UNRWA’s commitment to ‘zero tolerance’ for anti-Semitism

April 12, 2021
A boy sits near sacks of flour distributed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East at a Gaza refugee camp, Jan. 15, 2018. (Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) 

Biden’s new slate of aid to Palestinians comes under intense scrutiny

April 9, 2021

Antony Blinken in Holocaust Day speech recalls past State Department obstruction of bids to save Jews

April 9, 2021

Jewish and Arab-American groups join in backing bill that would streamline hate crimes reporting

April 9, 2021

GOP lawmaker marks Holocaust remembrance day by likening child mental health bill to Nazi laws

April 8, 2021

March of the Living gives Fauci award for COVID work

April 7, 2021
GAZA CITY, GAZA - JANUARY 15: A boy sits near the sacks of flours during a food aid distribution by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) at Al-Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza City, Gaza on January 15, 2018. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Biden administration resumes payments to UNRWA; Israel objects

April 7, 2021
Nancy Kaufman

These names are being talked about to be the US anti-Semitism monitor

April 7, 2021
Middle East School

Elite US military language school drops Hebrew

April 6, 2021

Amy Acton, the Ohio pandemic official who faced an anti-Semitic backlash, won’t run for Senate

April 6, 2021

Alcee Hastings, Black congressman who led advocacy on Jewish issues, dies at 84

April 6, 2021

The next major Jewish action is on behalf of Uighurs

April 6, 2021
Fatou Bensouda, the International Criminal Courts prosecutor, at the court in The Hague, Netherlands, July 8, 2019. (Eva Plevier/AFP via Getty Images

Biden removes Trump era sanctions on the International Criminal Court

April 2, 2021

US and Iran to join talks aimed at rejoining nuclear deal

April 2, 2021
Matt Gaetz

Matt Gaetz and father allege $25M extortion plot that included freedom for Robert Levinson, missing Jewish FBI agent

April 1, 2021

US watchdog: Aid agency did not properly vet Palestinian recipients for terror ties

March 31, 2021
Joel Greenberg

Who is Joel Greenberg? Meet the Jewish Florida politician at the center of the Matt Gaetz scandal

March 31, 2021

Rabbi Michael Cook, who helped Jews navigate the New Testament, dies at 79

March 30, 2021
Settler Protest

State Department revives use of ‘occupied,’ with caveats

March 30, 2021
Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff participate in a virtual White House seder, March 25, 2021. (Screen shot)

Doug Emhoff hosts the White House’s first online Passover seder

March 25, 2021

Biden administration formally resumes assistance to the Palestinians

March 25, 2021

Bipartisan slate of senators call on Biden to maintain tough Iran posture

March 25, 2021

Jonathan Pollard says Jews ‘will always have dual loyalty’ and would counsel young Jews to consider spying for Israel

March 25, 2021
LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 17: Jessica Walter arrives for the premiere of Netflixs Arrested Development Season 5 at Netflix FYSee Theater on May 17, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Gabriel Olsen/WireImage)

Jessica Walter, Jewish actress known for roles in ‘Arrested Development’ and ‘Archer,’ dies at 80

March 25, 2021

New anti-Semitism definition excludes backing Israel boycotts

March 25, 2021

Steven Spielberg to donate his Genesis Prize winnings to racial justice organizations

March 25, 2021

In a first, Senate confirms a transgender nominee, Rachel Levine, to be deputy health secretary

March 25, 2021

GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith to Schumer: The Sabbath is on Sunday

March 24, 2021

George Segal, vanguard of 1960s wave of young Jewish actors, dies at 87

March 24, 2021

The average age of volunteers at this food pantry was 89. Then the pandemic arrived.

March 22, 2021
Sasha Kopp, who trains Jewish early childhood teachers, took up dog walking in Manhattan to fill time during the pandemic. Here she poses at Carl Schurz Park in New York City on July 16, 2020. (Carl Vitullo)

When school turned upside down, this St. Louis native helped Jewish educators learn to teach outdoors

March 22, 2021
Sofi Hersher and Nate Andorsky pose during a visit to introduce Andorsky to Hershers grandmother, with COVID precautions in place, in Syracuse, New York, Sept. 21, 2020. (DeAjah DeLee)

For many people, life slowed down once COVID-19 hit. Hers sped up.

March 22, 2021
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