Rep. Ilhan Omar: AIPAC Pays Politicians to Support Israel
BY RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Days after a series of apologies for an old tweet seen as echoing antisemitic themes, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said the American Israel Public...
Rep. Kevin McCarthy Promises to Call Out Democrats Omar, Tlaib
BY RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Republican leader in the U.S. House of Representatives said he would take action against two Democrats who have sharply criticized Israel if the...
Orthodox Rabbis Vote to Bar One of Their Own for Training Female Clergy
TEANECK, N.J. (Jewish Standard via JTA) — Pushing back against efforts by liberal Orthodox Jews to allow women to serve as clergy, an Orthodox rabbinical council in northern New Jersey is...
Groups Welcome Senate’s Passage of Middle East Security Act
The Senate’s passage on Tuesday of the Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act was welcomed by a number of pro-Israel groups.
The legislation — approved by a 77-23...
Trump State of the Union Address Draws Mixed Reactions From Jewish Groups
President Donald Trump’s annual State of the Union address on Tuesday drew a wide range of responses from American Jewish groups.
The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) praised Trump’s speech, which...
Trump SOTU Denounces Threats from Iran, Antisemitism
As part of his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday night, U.S. President Donald Trump addressed the threats posed by Iran and antisemitism.
“My administration has acted decisively...
Parkland Fathers, Survivor to Attend State of the Union With Democrats
BY MARCY OSTER
(JTA) — Two fathers of victims of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting and a former student who survived the attack will be guests of Congress members at...
Pittsburgh Shul Massacre Survivor, Wounded Officer Among Honored at Trump State of the Union
A Holocaust survivor who emerged unscathed from last October’s antisemitic massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and a police officer who was wounded in a shootout...
Iraq War Veteran, Grandson of Holocaust Survivors Tapped as Antisemitism Envoy
JNS.org – After a 21-month-long vacancy awaiting the appointment of the US State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, the Trump administration has picked Iraq War veteran and...
Trump to Name LA Prosecutor, Iraq War Vet to Antisemitism Post
BY RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump is set to name a Los Angeles prosecutor to be the State Department’s envoy for anti-Semitism. The post has been empty...
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Jewish Yale student stabbed in eye with PLO flag
(April 21, 2024 / JNS)
A Jewish student at Yale University was stabbed in the eye with a PLO flag during an anti-Israel demonstration at...
OU Responds To Jewish Danger At Columbia University
Statement from The Orthodox Union and the Orthodox Union-Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus
This morning, the following guidance was shared with the students in our...
Are We Midgets or Giants
Moshe Taragin
More than two centuries of Egyptian persecution and oppression had shuttered the Jewish imagination. We couldn’t imagine anything beyond the squalor and misery...