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(JTA) — When newly released audio recordings revealed former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak discussing mass conversion and selective immigration with Jeffrey Epstein, disgraced financier and the convicted sex trafficker, the reaction in Israel was swift and deeply political. Israel’s current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, accused Barak of seeking to “select” Jews for immigration and…

The Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism, led by Moshe Davis, held its first meeting on July 17, 2025, at City Hall in New York City. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office Moshe Davis was replaced this week as the executive director of the New York City Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism and spoke with The Free…

People gather near the scene, after an attack in which a car was driven at pedestrians and stabbings were reported at a synagogue in north Manchester, Britain, on Yom Kippur, Oct. 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Phil Noble The father of the terrorist who perpetrated last year’s deadly Yom Kippur attack in Manchester is again drawing outrage…

An installation in downtown Munich commemorating the Feb. 13, 1970, arson attack on a Jewish community center in which seven elderly people died. Photo: @springermunich/X After reopening the long-dormant investigation into the 1970 arson attack on a Munich Jewish community center that killed seven elderly residents, German authorities have identified a new suspect with ties…

Khymani James, ex-Columbia University student who filmed himself saying Zionists should be murdered. Photo: Screenshot A suspended Columbia University student who said Zionists do not deserve to live and are lucky he has not resorted to killing them himself has filed a federal lawsuit against US Rep. Virginia Foxx, alleging the North Carolina Republican used…

Hudson Institute and Middle East expert Michael Doran speaking with Ambassador Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, US special envoy for combating and monitoring antisemitism. Photo: The Algemeiner/Dion J. Pierre Washington, DC — Combating rising antisemitism in contemporary America requires educating youth and denouncing racism and hatred at the highest levels of government, Ambassador Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, the…

Twenty years ago this week, I celebrated my bat mitzvah in Denver. Afterward, my voice teacher — oh, the days when I dreamed of Broadway stardom — gave me some puzzling feedback on the ceremony. I sang much better in Hebrew, she said, than I ever had in English. Since my turn as a teenage…

(JTA) — A pitcher for the Minnesota Twins whose father-in-law is an Israeli-American pharmaceutical executive and political activist is one of the new additions to Team Israel ahead of next month’s World Baseball Classic. With sixth edition of the international tournament exactly one month away, all 20 competing countries have now revealed their 30-man rosters.…

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is welcomed by an Omani official upon his arrival in Muscat, Oman, in this handout image obtained on Feb. 6, 2026. Photo: Iranian Foreign Ministry/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS Iran’s top diplomat said on Friday that nuclear talks with the US mediated by Oman were off to a…

Masked woman disrupting Middle East talk held at Haverford College on Feb. 1, 2026. Photo: Screenshot. Haverford College in Pennsylvania has identified and banned from campus at least two members of a pro-Hamas group that disrupted an event featuring Middle East scholar Haviv Rettig Gur on Sunday. As seen in footage shared on the X…