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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

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

April 15, 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
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 Court's 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 Netflix's

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 Hersher's 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
Israeli absorption minister Pnina Tamano-Shata poses in an undated photo. (Natan Weil/Government Press Office) 

Israel’s first Black Cabinet member knows the aliyah struggle. It’s why she kept immigration open during COVID.

March 21, 2021
Mazon Seder

Record 33 lawmakers from both parties join Mazon’s hunger Seder

March 19, 2021

Top retired Israeli security officials back Colin Kahl, a Biden nominee on ice for his Israel positions

March 18, 2021
Atlanta Crime Scene

After Atlanta massacre, Jewish groups rally on behalf of Asian Americans

March 17, 2021
Doug Emhoff

Doug Emhoff wanted to tout the benefits of the stimulus package for small businesses. He chose a Jewish bagel joint.

March 17, 2021

Liberal Jewish scholars present anti-Semitism definition that allows more freedom for Israel criticism

March 16, 2021

Schumer calls on Andrew Cuomo to step down

March 12, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 10: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a round table discussion with African American supporters in the Cabinet Room of the White House on June 10, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump showed off photos of naked women at a shiva, report says

March 12, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 29: Commercial and Administrative Law House Subcommittee Chairman Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) speaks during the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law hearing on Online Platforms and Market Power in the Rayburn House office Building, July 29, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Photo by Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images)

Marjorie Taylor Greene slurs David Cicilline as ‘Mussolini.’ His response: ‘I’m an Italian and a Jew.’

March 11, 2021
New Israel Fund

Federal court dismisses $110 million tax suit against New Israel Fund

March 11, 2021
Mike Bloomberg was a Democratic presidential hopeful when he spoke at AIPAC's 2020 policy conference in Washington, March 2, 2020. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images) 

No AIPAC conference? No problem. We’re meeting for coffee on Zoom.

March 11, 2021
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