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Arizona Man Convicted of Making Antisemitic Death Threats
Illustrative: A woman walks past the US Department of Justice Building, in Washington, DC. Photo: REUTERS/Al Drago An Arizona man whom a federal criminal court convicted of a long campaign of harassment totaling about 1,000 incidents in which he threatened to “torture, mutilate, rape, and murder,” Jews was sentenced on Thursday to 49 months in…
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Arab Rights Group Sues to Overturn K-12 Antisemitism Law in California
Illustrative: Anti-Israel protesters in Los Angeles, California, US, Oct. 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Daniel Cole A new California law which aims to combat antisemitism in K-12 schools is being targeted in a federal lawsuit filed by a group which calls itself the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). As previously reported by The Algemeiner, the legislation, signed by Gov.…
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2 of NYC’s 5 public pension funds are vulnerable to a mayor-backed Israel divestment push
The man who is likely to be New York City’s top finance watchdog under Zohran Mamdani — assuming they both win their races on Tuesday — has said he does not believe Mamdani could divest the city’s pension funds of their investments in Israel. “Just doesn’t have the votes for that,” Mark Levine, the likely next comptroller,…
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What to know about ‘Not On Our Dime,’ Zohran Mamdani’s bill targeting donations to Israeli settlements
In May 2023, a member of the New York State Assembly introduced a bill aimed at blocking nonprofits from funding Israeli settlements in the West Bank. It was swiftly rebuked by his colleagues and never came to a vote. That bill was called “Not on our dime!: Ending New York funding of Israeli settler violence…
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Names of 5 Million of 6 Million Jews Killed in Holocaust Now Identified
Visitors tour an exhibition, ahead of Israel’s national Holocaust memorial day at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, in Jerusalem, April 23, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun Five million of the more than six million Jews killed in the Holocaust have now been identified, and with the further help of artificial intelligence (AI), even more names could be recovered, Israeli researchers said on Monday. Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance…
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Haunted by War, Some Israelis Hesitate to Return to Kibbutz Attacked by Hamas
Kibbutz member Yael Raz Lachyani, 49, walks by the fence of Kibbutz Nahal Oz in southern Israel, Oct. 28, 2025. Hamas gunmen killed 15 people from Nahal Oz and took eight more hostage to Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun Avishay Edri wants to move back to the kibbutz he evacuated in southern Israel after…
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Why Jeremy Corbyn’s support for Zohran Mamdani is fueling antisemitism fears
Jeremy Corbyn, the former British Labour leader ousted from his party over accusations of antisemitism, joined a phone bank for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Sunday. Corbyn’s participation quickly drew backlash. Mamdani “will ensure that the world doesn’t pass by on the other side while the terrible genocide goes on in Gaza,…
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Says Cooperation With US Not Possible While It Backs Israel
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with Iran’s parliament members in Tehran, Iran, July 21, 2024. Photo: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS Cooperation between Iran and the United States is not possible as long as Washington continues to support Israel and to maintain military bases and interfere in the…
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John Irving always felt like an outsider — is that all he thinks there is to Jewishness?
Queen Esther By John Irving Simon & Schuster, 432 pages, $30 In The Cider House Rules, John Irving opens with a urological concern. The nurses in the boys’ division of the St. Cloud Orphanage spend their new arrivals’ early days “checking that their little penises were healing from their obligatory circumcisions.” Decades later, in Queen…
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Hannah Senesh’s example of Jewish pride and sacrifice gains renewed attention in our anxious era
More than 80 years after she parachuted into Yugoslavia as part of the only military operation in World War II that attempted to rescue Jews, the Jewish poet and kibbutznik Hannah Senesh is having her moment. The play “Hannah Senesh” is running through Nov. 9 at the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene in New York —…
