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(JTA) — Jasamine Hodge started converting to Judaism eight years ago, but it wasn’t until Oct. 7 that she set a date to finish. As a...
Then-Harvard University President Dr. Claudine Gay delivers remarks on Dec. 5, 2023, during the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on the recent rise...
The former Washington Post building. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Antisemitism is skyrocketing. And one of the largest newspapers in the United States is helping fuel the fire....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz in the Kirya military base in Tel...
(JTA) — Antisemitism in the United States has “skyrocketed” in the three months since Hamas’ Oct. 7 invasion of Israel, according to data tallied by the...
(JTA) – A Florida school district is heading to court in a closely watched legal challenge to its decision to remove more than 1,600 books, including...
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin attends a welcome ceremony before an annual security meeting with South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik at the Defense Ministry...
France’s Emilie Gomis celebrates silver medal with her family during victory ceremony at the North Greenwich Arena during the London 2012 Olympic Games, Aug. 11, 2012....
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani speaks during an interview with Reuters in Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 9, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani Iraq wants a quick and...
Pro-Hamas demonstrators are detained by police officers in New York during a protest at the Brooklyn Bridge. Photo: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton Antisemitic incidents in the US rose...
(New York Jewish Week) — The Times Square location of Miznon, the fast-casual restaurant chain from Israeli celebrity chef Eyal Shani, is going kosher. The pita-focused...
IDF soldiers in the home of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar. Photo: Israel’s Arabic X/Twitter account Israel is aware of the exact whereabouts of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’...
TEL AVIV — It only took a few minutes from the time the rocket fire from Gaza began on the morning of Oct. 7 for Karen...
Rabbi Erwin Schild, who survived Kristallnacht and internment at the Dachau concentration camp to go on to lead one of Toronto’s largest Conservative synagogues for over...
Italian Holocaust survivor and life senator Liliana Segre. Photo: Screenshot The 92-year-old Holocaust survivor who sits as a senator in the Italian parliament on Tuesday spoke...