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(JTA) — Dozens of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish authors are criticizing the Jewish Book Council, a historic literary group, for what they said was a “bias...
(JTA) — A rabbi at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, has publicly chastised a candidate for U.S. Senate in her state who grew up near...
The Vatican has not been a major player on the geopolitical stage in, well, at least a few centuries. The Catholic state is tiny, and has...
The New York state and local retirement fund owns $368 million in Israel bonds. Most state pension funds own none. And most New Yorkers have no...
Brad Lander, a Jewish Democrat running for Congress who has described himself as a liberal Zionist, has joined some progressive House members in calling for an...
Ryan Millsap, a prominent film and real estate executive in Atlanta who made antisemitic and racist comments in private text messages, is now running for a...
The Last Woman of Warsaw Judy Batalion Dutton, 336 pages, $30 Don’t be misled by the title of this debut novel by Judy Batalion, nor by...
Mahmoud Khalil wants to reassure the Jewish community. In an extensive new interview with the Forward, the pro-Palestinian protest leader recognized “a Jewish connection” to Israel,...
In his recent interview with the Forward, prominent Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil attempted to address claims that he’s an antisemite, that he supports Hamas, and that...
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, is having an interesting April. Fans are hailing his new album Bully as a return to form. (Critics...
(JTA) — Six in 10 Americans say they have a very or somewhat unfavorable view of Israel, up 20 points since 2022, according to a new...
(JTA) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance is headed to Pakistan on Friday for in-person talks to reach a permanent end to the U.S.-Israeli war on...
(JTA) — WARSAW — As a non-Jewish college student, I felt both excitement and trepidation when I got the call that I had been accepted into...
Though you probably know about “A Bintel Brief,” the Forward’s advice column that debuted 120 years ago, or the postwar advice columns of Esther and Pauline...
Israel is now in a precarious position following President Donald Trump’s sudden declaration of a ceasefire in the Iran war, say experts on security and the...
Since he was targeted for deportation by the Trump administration, Mahmoud Khalil has become both a celebrity among those who supported the campus protests against Israel...
(JTA) — ANN ARBOR, Michigan — Outside, in a line that stretched around the block, the hundreds of people who turned out for Abdul el-Sayed’s campaign...
Within the space of a day, President Donald Trump’s genocidal threat to wipe out Iran’s “entire civilization” gave way to a two-week ceasefire that may well...
(JTA) — Israel struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on Wednesday as a tenuous ceasefire took hold in its monthlong war with Iran, which it has conducted...
Kenny Vance (born Kenneth Rosenberg), 82, was not quite ready to use my word “omen,” but he acknowledged that in some oblique way the destruction of...