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GOP in Connecticut town apologizes for antisemitic social media post
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (546+ words) The Republican Party in Trumbull, Conn. , issued a statement on Friday apologizing "sincerely" for a social media post that many viewed as antisemitic and said that it hoped that Jew-hatred will be taken seriously on both sides of the aisle....
Some New York City rabbis plan to welcome Shavuot by discussing current issues, others sticking to revelation
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (284+ words) Rabbis in New York City plan to address a wide range of topics on Shavuot, a two-day holiday marking the receipt of the Torah at Mount Sinai that begins at nightfall on Thursday and during which many Jews stay up…...
More than half of Skokie bias cases in 2025 targeted Jews, police report for Chicago suburb finds
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (551+ words) Anti-Jewish hate crimes and bias incidents accounted for the majority of reported cases in Skokie, Ill. , in 2025, according to a new annual report from the Chicago suburb's police department Jesse Barnes, chief of the Skokie Police Department, presented the report at…...
Colel Chabad celebrates bar mitzvahs of 125 orphans in Israel
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (404+ words) JNS provides comprehensive Israel and Jewish news coverage, features, and analysis to print and digital publications across the globe....
Confronting the poison of anti-Zionism
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (970+ words) Many of the responses to a chilling Instagram post from Maureen Galindo, who is running for the Democratic nomination in Texas's 35th Congressional District, depicted her statement advocating the corralling of "American Zionists" into an internment camp as proof of her…...
Israeli envoy rebukes social equality minister over Reform Judaism remarks in Knesset
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (354+ words) Yechiel Leiter, the Israeli ambassador to the United States, issued a second consecutive day of public criticism of senior Israeli officials on Thursday, condemning comments made in the Knesset by May Golan, Israel's social equality minister, against Reform Judaism. Golan,…...
Israel education or Israel advocacy? The distinction matters
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (455+ words) For years, I've watched a subtle confusion creep into our schools and communities. What we call "Israel education" is too often advocacy in disguise. The two sound alike, but they pull in opposite directions. One deepens understanding and the other…...
Netanyahu: Shavuot is when we became a united people
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (244+ words) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greeted the Shavuot holiday on Thursday, saying that it marks the moment Jews became a people. This moment was conceived "at the foot of Mount Sinai, with the receiving of the Torah, with deep faith…...
Fall from grace
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (452+ words) Over four decades, Nicholas Kristof has been a highly respected, humanitarian and compassionate journalist for The New York Times. However, he has totally sullied his reputation by crafting a libelous column on May 11 titled "The Silence that Meets the Rape…...
Israel to become home to majority of Jews within a decade'report
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (213+ words) Israel could become home to the majority of the world's Jews within the next decade, according to a report on global Jewish demographics, one of the key findings of a sweeping study on the future of Jewish communities over the…...