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(JTA) — The Senate late Wednesday rejected a measure that would have required President Donald Trump to get congressional approval to continue fighting against Iran. The measure was initiated by Democrats, who have raised questions about the process by which Trump initiated the war alongside Israel on Saturday. The War Powers Act requires U.S. presidents…

In 1954, the Oscar-winning composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold staged a European homecoming with a new operetta. How this came to pass — and how his planned comeback failed to materialize — is even more convoluted than the piece’s farcical plot. Korngold, a wunderkind and Jewish refugee from Vienna, first came to Hollywood to adapt Felix…

(JTA) — TEL AVIV — Smartphones have become as essential as shelters for Israelis riding out Iran’s missile attacks, with internet traffic up 25% since the war began on Saturday. From the screaming alerts of the military’s official app that, as one comedian put it, sound like a “baby dragon giving birth,” to bomb-shelter Tinder…

(JTA) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom provided sharp criticism of the Israeli government during an interview this week, suggesting that he agreed with claims that it is an “apartheid state” and questioning U.S. military aid to the country. Newsom, a likely 2028 presidential candidate, offered his rebuke of the Israeli government during an event on…

(JTA) — Rabbi Andrea Weiss, a former provost of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion who made history as the first woman to ordain rabbis in the Reform movement, has died. Weiss died on Tuesday surrounded by family at her home in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, following a year-long battle with cancer. She was 60. “Andrea…

(JTA) — A Jewish artist fled a street fair in Buenos Aires after fellow vendors shouted “Zionists out” at her during a dispute over a Palestinian flag, in an episode city officials condemned as an antisemitic attack. The incident on Sunday at the San Telmo fair began when the artist, who was identified as “Karina”…

(JTA) — The first time Iris Hefets was detained by German police, she was standing alone on a street corner in Berlin with a sign that read, “As a Jew and Israeli, stop the genocide in Gaza.” That was October 2023. Hefets, a 60-year-old psychoanalyst who moved from Israel in 2002, was standing by herself…

(JTA) — The Rev. Frederick Haynes III, pastor to Rep. Jasmine Crockett who has praised Louis Farrakhan and whose progressive sermons have included denunciations of Israel, easily won the Democratic primary to replace his congregant in Texas’s 30th district on Tuesday. Haynes now becomes the likely next congressman for the Dallas-area Democratic stronghold, while Crockett…

When my Iranian girlfriend and I started dating in 2020, some of her family were skeptical of what it meant for her to be with an Israeli man. But after a United States and Israeli military campaign killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei this weekend, we watched Iranian and Israeli flags fly alongside one another during…