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Israel-Lebanon talks set to proceed in U.S. Friday despite renewed violence

By SHIRA LI BARTOV

(JTA) — Israeli and Lebanese military officials are set to meet for talks at the Pentagon on Friday aimed at resolving their decades-long conflict. The new meeting comes as fighting increasingly shakes what’s left of a...

U.S. launches attacks on Iran as negotiations over a peace deal drag out

By KELLY HARTOG

(JTA) — The United States announced it had launched defensive strikes on Monday in Southern Iran, targeting Iranian missile sites and boats it believed were placing mines.

The move threatens to derail an already fragile ceasefire between...

A museum exhibit explores the Jewish fascination with the occult

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL

(JTA) — In a recent speech on nutrition, the nation’s top health official offered a perhaps surprising explanation for what is ailing Americans. 

“We’re engaged right now in spiritual warfare and … the malevolent forces want to...

Children’s book of ‘The Tenth Man’ tells true story of Congregation Anshe Sfard

By ALAN SMASON

Artie Bennett knew a good story when he heard one. But this story was one he knew intimately as the protagonist – the so-called “tenth man” – was his wife Leah’s first cousin, Alex Brown.

The children’s...

Gaza and Israel go unmentioned in Democrats’ 2024 election autopsy report

By JOSEPH STRAUSS

(JTA) — Gaza and Israel go unmentioned in the Democrats’ 190-page autopsy of Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential election loss that the Democratic National Committee released to CNN on Thursday.

Critics of the Biden administration’s support for Israel...

Netanyahu hails strike killing Hamas ‘chief murderer’

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org)  – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that Israeli forces had targeted and killed the head of Hamas’s “military wing” Izz al-Din al-Haddad, calling him the “chief murderer” and a key figure behind the Oct. 7,...

From Rutgers speaker to Kristof column, disputed dog rape claim against Israel goes mainstream

By PHILISSA CRAMER and GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — A week after a university commencement speaker was canceled because of a tweet claiming that Israel trains dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners, the allegation leapt into the pages of The New York...

Israeli report on ‘systematic’ Oct. 7 sexual violence seeks to shift debate from denial to accountability

By DEBORAH DANAN

(JTA) — A sweeping new Israeli report on sexual violence committed during the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks and against hostages in Gaza concludes that the crimes formed part of a deliberate strategy. It also lays out a...

Abraham Foxman, transformative longtime director of the Anti-Defamation League, dies at 86

By RON KAMPEAS

(JTA) — Abraham Foxman, the longtime leader of the Anti-Defamation League who for decades was the last word in post-Holocaust Jewish fury and forgiveness, has died at 86.

Foxman, a child survivor of the Holocaust, could be...

Michael Jackson biopic revives legend of Jewish music mogul who battled MTV’s ‘color barrier’

By STEPHEN SILVER

(JTA) — About halfway through “Michael,” the new blockbuster biopic of Michael Jackson, there is a scene in which Jackson (played by his nephew Jafaar) and his lawyer, John Branca (Miles Teller), are sitting with the president...