After Kamala Harris announced that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz would be her running mate, left-wing Jewish organizations lauded Walz as a pro-Israel Democrat that condemned antisemitism and Oct 7, and right-wing Jewish groups lambasted Walz as a 'far-left liberal'
The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience may have the homespun tagline 'Shalom, make yourself at home,' but it offers far more than just a genteel insight into four centuries of Jewish life in the South. 'we are clear-eyed about learning from the things we are not proud of,' says its director
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, potentially Kamala Harris' running mate, has made his Jewish identity central to his career, is popular in a key swing state and has championed reproductive rights. 'Israel not only has a right to defend itself, it has a responsibility to combat Hamas,' he said recently
Leader of neo-Nazi extremist group based in eastern Europe has been charged with plotting mass-casualty event targeting the Jewish community and other groups it deems 'undesirables'
Michail Chkhikvishvili, also known as “Commander Butcher,” planned to distribute poisoned candy to children at Jewish schools in Brooklyn and other attacks against minorities, prosecutors said.
When a prominent New York cultural space gave its window display to an artist who applauds Hamas' October 7 attack, it left many Jewish and Israeli artists shocked – but not altogether surprised. Has the art world created 'a flat field that sees reality from a single perspective,' as one curator charges?
The Kaleidoscope project revives an initiative that was interrupted by the Holocaust: an autobiographical writing competition for Jewish youth from all over Europe
Three Columbia University staff members had been suspended after a text chat had been leaked in which they mocked a panel on Jewish campus life and safety concerns.
Antisemites pointed to the Jewish faith of Victoria Starmer, the prime minister's wife, as evidence of a Jewish conspiracy controlling the world through access to world leaders.
As more antisemitic scandals involving National Rally emerge, and France's Jewish community organizations unite to oppose the far-right party ahead of Sunday's momentous elections, a small group of French Jews met Marine Le Pen for a 'debate.' CRIF president: 'Talking to them now is counter-productive'
While elements of the text messages have been previously reported, the full exchanges show the university officials downplaying students' concerns about antisemitism, bashing the head of the school's Hillel and suggesting that Jewish students received attention because of money
America's Jewish community has long been associated with immigration advocacy. Now, pro-immigration Jewish activists are calling on community leaders to take a stronger stand, while pushing back against GOP 'misinformation and fearmongering,' ahead of November's presidential election
The time has come for Jewish camps to discard their obsession with 'unity' and 'solidarity' and to set aside their bizarre reluctance to talk about the political issues that are at the very heart of the Israel-Palestine debate
A bombshell undercover investigation of the youth wing of Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party that exposed its blatant hypocrisy – hugging Jewish leaders and supporting Israel in public, while activists 'happily joke about Hitler' in private – has belatedly forced the Jewish community to react