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Laura Loomer and other Jewish conservatives sound alarm over Tucker Carlson’s White House access
(JTA) — Jewish figures on the far right are increasingly expressing concerns about President Donald Trump’s handling of an antisemitism rift among the Republican party, after its instigator Tucker Carlson reportedly visited the White House for the third time in weeks on Monday. The visit, reported by Punchbowl News journalist Jake Sherman, came days after…
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Documentary about Jews killed by their Polish neighbors after the Holocaust could be banned in Poland
(JTA) — A documentary about the murder of five Jews in a Polish town is being threatened with a ban in Poland — not because they were killed in the Holocaust, but because they weren’t. The Jews at the heart of “Among Neighbors,” from California-based filmmaker Yoav Potash, died six months after the end of…
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Yaron Lischinsky’s brother, Jewish hockey stars Jack and Quinn Hughes among guests at Trump’s State of the Union
(JTA) — Among the guests expected to attend President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address Tuesday evening are Hanan Lischinsky, the brother of the Israeli embassy staffer killed last summer, and the Jewish Olympic hockey star brothers Jack and Quinn Hughes. Trump’s address is expected to tout the accomplishments of his second term in…
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Gavin Newsom says he never has and ‘never will’ take money from AIPAC
(JTA) — When an interviewer told him he wouldn’t vote for a candidate who accepts support from AIPAC, California Gov. Gavin Newsom stumbled over his reply. “It’s interesting,” Newsom said, repeating the phrase multiple times. He distanced himself from the pro-Israel lobbying group, saying it is “not relevant” to his “day-to-day life,” but didn’t comment…
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Indiana Jews race to reclaim a synagogue that shaped the Reform movement
On South Seventh Street in downtown Lafayette, Indiana, a Star of David still crowns a synagogue built in 1867. In the mid-19th century, this congregation became an early laboratory of the Reform movement — and, historians say, the site of the first known egalitarian minyan in America. Over the decades, it would serve as a…
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What Tucker Carlson won’t tell you about U.S. military aid to Israel
Tucker Carlson sat across from United States Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee at Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport and delivered a version of an argument that demagogues have recycled for centuries. “Our country is not thriving,” Carlson said, “and we’re spending tens and tens of billions of dollars over time defending Israel.” His implication was clear: that…
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A new curriculum brings adults with intellectual disabilities into Jewish learning
(JTA) — When he’s not working at the local dog care and boarding center, 24-year-old Raffi Stein-Klotz is usually playing kickball or tending to the garden at his residential facility in Boca Raton. But once a week, Stein-Klotz can be found in an adult Jewish learning class series created specifically for people with intellectual and…
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Truck ramming at Australian synagogue prompts hate crime charges as antisemitism commission opens
(JTA) — An Australian man is facing hate crime charges after he allegedly rammed his truck into a historic synagogue in Brisbane, in an attack that has spurred calls for increased security from the synagogue’s rabbi. Matthew De Campo, 32, of Sunnybank, was arrested on Friday after he allegedly backed his pickup truck into the…
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We are talking past one another on Zionism
A recent study of American Jews’ attitudes toward Israel has provoked much confusion in the Jewish establishment: Only 37% of Jews said they identified as Zionists, according to the data, but 88% said that “Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish, democratic state.” Which, of course, is the standard definition of Zionism. What’s…
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Millennial anxieties are the ‘new normal’ in these Yiddish stories
This is a revised version of the original article in Yiddish which you can read here. Di Tsukunft (The Future) A book of short stories in Yiddish by Shiri Shapira Leyvik House, 2025 You may not have heard about Shiri Shapira yet but you may do so soon. She’s one of the few young Israeli…
