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Rachel Goldberg-Polin is a mother tirelessly campaigning for the return of her son, Hersh, who was abducted by Hamas terrorists. She has become the internati...

Maxwell Jacob Friedman, a professional wrestler known as MJF, is the latest inductee into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. He expressed his joy in fu...

The new film adaptation of The Color Purple brings attention to author Alice Walker's history of antisemitism. While Walker's novel and the 1985 film adaptat...

Chava Rosenfarb, a renowned Yiddish writer, is being celebrated in Lodz, Poland, where she was once imprisoned during the Holocaust. Rosenfarb's stories are ...

Mike Gold, the author of the 1930 novel "Jews Without Money," has fallen into obscurity despite his ferocious and controversial writing style. The novel depi...

"The Gospel According to Chaim" is a new Yiddish play by Mikhl Yashinsky that explores the story of a Jewish-born Christian missionary, Chaim Henry Einspruch...

The tradition of Jews eating Chinese food on Christmas is a well-known phenomenon. While there is no evidence of an authentic holiday message from the Chines...

Antisemitism is becoming a growing issue at elite private schools, prompting administrators to seek ways to combat it. Advocacy groups, such as the American ...

Tom Suozzi, the Democratic nominee for an open House seat, has taken a weekend trip to Israel to show support for the country during its war with Hamas. The ...

Due to safety concerns related to a pro-Palestinian protest taking place across the street, congregants of Temple Beth Am in mid-city Los Angeles will be pra...

The Orange County Public Schools in Florida have removed nearly 700 books from classroom libraries, citing concerns about violating state laws on sexual cont...

The US Department of Justice has charged Samuel Salman El Reda, a dual Lebanese-Colombian citizen and alleged operative of Hezbollah, with playing a key role...

Despite the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, Jewish day schools in the United States are still planning to send their students to Israel for educational...

In this personal narrative, the author, a Jewish young man from Milwaukee, is living alone and feeling homesick for Christmas in Jerusalem in 1958. He visits...

Amira Mohammed and Ibrahim Abu Ahmad, two Palestinian Israeli peace activists, host the popular podcast Unapologetic: The Third Narrative. The podcast explor...

A new report from the National Contagion Research Institute suggests that TikTok, the popular social media platform, is being used to promote anti-Israel sen...

At the 55th annual convention of the Association for Jewish Studies, scholars gathered to discuss their latest research, which often delved into historical i...

The Conservative movement is suspending its Israel gap-year program, Nativ, due to budget issues and recruitment challenges. Nativ, which has historically at...

Ari Kelman, a professor of Jewish studies at Stanford University, resigned from his role as co-chair of the university's committee to fight antisemitism afte...

The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., was temporarily closed after being vandalized with graffiti that read "Free Gaza" in multiple places. The U.S. Park...

Yiddishland California, a cultural center and museum in La Jolla, California, dedicated to promoting Yiddish language and culture, is in danger of losing its...

The U.S. Department of Education has announced investigations into six new institutions, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Un...

An Orthodox Jewish school in Houston, Texas, has reported credible allegations of inappropriate behavior against its former head of school, Rabbi Ari Segal. ...

Starbucks is being targeted by activists on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While Starbucks has no stores in Israel and is not on the list of...

In this article, the author argues that while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims that Hamas poses an existential threat to Israel, this notion ...

Steve McQueen's documentary film, Occupied City, explores modern and Holocaust-era Amsterdam through contemporary footage. The film aims to shed light on the...

A recent poll showed that 72% of Palestinians supported Hamas' October 7th attack on Israelis, in which 1,200 Israelis were killed, more than 240 were taken ...

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...