For the past five years, a specialty “command center” that researches anti-Semitism has been operating inside the New England Patriots’ home stadium in this Boston suburb — and tracked a rise in Hitler glorification since last February.
Israeli critics of the Iran deal should be wary of alienating President Donald Trump, particularly given their country’s dependency on US military aid, Vice President JD Vance told reporters on June 18. “Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time,” Vance said.
FBI director Kash Patel announced on Tuesday, June 16, that the FBI disrupted a plot to use explosive-laden drones to attack the June 14 martial arts UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House and to target politicians who received donations from AIPAC.
Days after Hebrew Union College graduated its final rabbinical class in Cincinnati, a new Jewish seminary has its eyes on the school’s campus — and wants the state of Ohio to bestow the prize on them.
Sheriff’s deputy Johnny Garcia won the Democratic nomination Tuesday in Texas’ 35th Congressional District, defeating opponent Maureen Galindo following a race shaped by scrutiny over Galindo’s virulently anti-Semitic rhetoric.
The Israel parade on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue this year is slated to have a Muslim group marching alongside Jewish organizations in what is believed to be the first time in the parade’s 61-year history. It will also be the first time in memory that New York City’s mayor will not participate in the parade, which shows support for the Jewish state.
Jewish groups denounced a May 18 fatal shooting at a mosque in San Diego in which three people, including a security guard, were killed. They are also saying the incident, which follows attacks on synagogues in Mississippi and Michigan, underscores a need for more federal funding for security at houses of worship.
The Jewish Theological Seminary has named Rabbi Mike Uram as its next chancellor, elevating a Jewish educator best known for his time as executive director of the University of Pennsylvania Hillel.
Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor, vetoed a bill that would have created “security perimeters” around educational institutions that prevent “physical obstruction, physical injury, intimidation and interference” while “preserving and protecting the rights to free speech, assembly and protest.”
People are probably going to yell at me for having this conversation,” Hasan Piker said from his livestreaming chair, midway through a video call with Jewish Telegraphic Agency to discuss his views on Jews, Israel and Zionism. By “people,” Piker meant his own: the three million followers he boasts on the streaming site Twitch, where he opines about politics in between video game sessions for up to eight hours a day. That doesn’t include the many more who watch clips of his show on YouTube or follow him on X.
A growing number of progressives, including J Street, have come out against American funding for Israel’s Iron Dome defense system. J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami on April 12 joined Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ro Khanna, along with Jewish Democratic congressional challenger Brad Lander, in opposing future budget earmarks for Israeli defense systems.
Four days after an attacker drove a car filled with explosives into her synagogue, Rabbi Jen Lader called a trusted photographer. Emily Iris Elconin took what would become the first official photos of the aftermath of the attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan.