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The article discusses a screening of the controversial film Israelism at Hunter College and the subsequent discussion moderated by Rabbi Andy Bachman. The sc...

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) began as a moderate voice advocating for Palestinian rights during the Oslo peace process. However, it has evolved in...

The Tikvah Fund, a Jewish conservative think tank, is launching a Jewish day school in New York City called Emet Classical Academy. The school aims to provid...

Former President Donald Trump denied plagiarizing Adolf Hitler's phrase about immigrants poisoning the blood of a country during an Iowa rally. He also claim...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has failed in his job to keep Israel safe, resulting in a catastrophic failure. Through his policies that supported...

In Porto, Portugal, a community of approximately 1,000 Jews has emerged over the past decade thanks to a 2015 law that allowed the return of people whose anc...

An Israeli project that aims to connect secular Jews to their religious heritage is gaining popularity. The project involves writing a Torah scroll and has a...

A recent poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College found that nearly half of young American voters sympathize more with the Palestinians than wi...

Over 1,000 current and former members of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), the largest denomination in North America, have signed an open letter calling fo...

The article discusses the song "Sunbeams" and its significance in the film "The Zone of Interest." The song was composed by Joseph Wulf, a Holocaust survivor...

Run For Their Lives Manhattan, a group with 52 locations worldwide, has been organizing runs in Central Park to raise awareness for the release of Israeli ho...

Graduates of the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Maryland, have written an open letter stating that their education was characterized by fal...

In 2023, Jewish communal mourning was marked by the passing of influential figures such as tennis player Dick Savitt, composer Burt Bacharach, and actor Rich...

Latvia and Lithuania have enacted laws that allow Holocaust survivors and their descendants to apply for restitution of stolen property. The restitution prog...

The oversight board at Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has ruled that automated content moderation tools went too far in removing posts r...

Muntaquim Durant, a Brooklyn resident, has been sentenced to two and a half to five years in prison for robbing a matzo factory in Williamsburg ahead of Pass...

A scaled-back Israeli delegation of 74 athletes will be heading to Argentina for the Pan American Maccabi Games. Originally, over 200 athletes were planning ...

Missouri attorney general candidate, Democratic Rep. Sarah Unsicker, has accused her former opponents, Will Scharf and Elad Gross, of being Israeli sleeper a...

Birthright Israel, the organization that offers free educational trips to Israel for young Jewish adults, has announced that it will resume its trips in Janu...

American Jews should consider starting a campaign called "Pushkes for Palestinians" to help reimburse and support Palestinian olive farmers who have been tar...

Saul Dreier, a 98-year-old Holocaust survivor and founder of the Holocaust Survivor Band, fulfilled his dream of playing the drums at the White House Hanukka...

The article discusses the phenomenon of psychic numbing and how it can limit comprehension and empathy towards large-scale tragedies, such as the Oct. 7 atta...

Francis Benhamou, an actress from a mixed Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish background, had never played a Jewish character until she was cast in "Prayer for th...

A man named Brent Wood has been arrested in connection with an antisemitic attack outside a synagogue in Washington, D.C. The attack occurred when Wood alleg...

Former Gaza Strip settlers are calling for the rebuilding of settlements in Gaza in the wake of Israel's current conflict with Hamas. The settlers argue that...

Rabbi David Stav, a leading liberal Religious Zionist rabbi in Israel, believes that the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas and the ensuing war have led many secular Isr...

The article discusses a selection of Jewish and Jewish-adjacent books that were published in 2023. The books cover various genres, including memoirs, fiction...

"Why I am grateful to Ady Barkan: a man who always told it straight" is an article written by Nicholas Bruckman about his experience filming the documentary ...

Israel and Hamas are preparing to resume indirect negotiations for the release of Israeli hostages, as well as a ceasefire in Gaza, following an incident whe...

Hundreds of synagogues and Jewish institutions in the US have received bomb threats, marking a significant increase in a months-long series of hoax threats. ...

Following a recent increase in settler violence in the West Bank during the Israel-Hamas conflict, the United Kingdom has joined the United States in announc...

Masha Gessen, a Jewish writer, will still receive the Hannah Arendt Prize despite controversy surrounding their recent essay on Gaza. The German foundation i...

Israeli forces accidentally killed three Israeli hostages during combat in Gaza. The soldiers mistakenly identified the hostages as a threat. The hostages we...

The Jerusalem Post, a prominent English-language Israeli newspaper, has faced turmoil in recent years under the ownership of businessman Eli Azur. Current an...

Rachel Goldberg, the mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was taken hostage in Gaza, has become a prominent advocate for Israel's hostages. Goldberg has been ...

The documentary film Israelism, which explores the experiences of two young American Jews in the West Bank and criticizes major American-Jewish organizations...

The presidents of Harvard, MIT, and UPenn recently faced scrutiny for their inability to answer whether calling for the genocide of Jews would violate school...

The author highlights the growing shift among Israeli Jews and Palestinians towards militaristic jingoism and right-wing politics, leading to a lack of suppo...

The upcoming film "The Iron Claw" tells the story of the Von Erichs, a famous wrestling family in Texas. While the film features Jewish actor Zac Efron and c...

Curb Your Enthusiasm, the popular HBO comedy created by Larry David, will end after its upcoming 12th season. David confirmed the news with a statement expre...

The New Yiddish Rep is set to produce the first original, full-length American Yiddish drama in seven decades called "The Gospel According to Chaim." The pla...

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 303-126, with three voting present, to call on the presidents of Harvard University and MIT to resign after they did ...

The U.S. Department of Education has opened 12 new investigations into alleged discrimination at colleges and school districts, with at least four of them re...

The word "intifada" has become central to pro-Palestinian protests, with some viewing it as a call for violence against Jews and others seeing it as a peacef...

A survey conducted by Brandeis University assessed the experiences of nearly 2,000 Jewish college students at 51 U.S. schools with significant Jewish populat...

Ruth Messinger, an 83-year-old woman, recently celebrated her second bat mitzvah at a Reconstructionist synagogue in New York. Messinger, who had the first-e...

Since the terror attack on October 7, Israelis and diaspora Jews have begun embracing and reinventing the Star of David as a symbol of pride and identity. Pr...

A new museum and cultural center in Yerevan, Armenia is being planned to celebrate the life of Charles Aznavour, the renowned French singer and songwriter. T...

Seven men, including longtime Hamas members, have been arrested in three European countries for planning terror attacks against Jews and Jewish sites. German...

Jewish communities in the United States have experienced a spike in antisemitic vandalism during Hanukkah. Incidents include the destruction and defacement o...