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Never mind the low profile – Netanyahu says his meeting with Trump on Iran was a triumph

By RON KAMPEAS

(JTA) — WASHINGTON – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slipped into the White House through a side door and didn’t get any public face time with President Donald Trump on his visit Tuesday.

It was a choreography...

Prize-winning journalist Amir Tibon is moving back to the kibbutz where he and his family survived Oct. 7

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL

(JTA) — “To be a liberal Zionist, it’s quite a lonely place,” said Amir Tibon, the Israeli journalist whose memoir “The Gates of Gaza” is one of the defining books of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack...

How a 198-year-old New Orleans synagogue became one of America’s fastest-growing Jewish communities

By BENYAMIN COHEN (Original publication date

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox.

This article is based on extensive interviews...

As Christopher Nolan revives ‘The Odyssey,’ a scholar finds links between Homer and the Hebrew Bible

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL

(JTA) — Even before its release on Friday, buzz over Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated film adaptation, “The Odyssey,” is introducing a new generation to Homer’s tale of shipwrecks, monsters, gods and the long road home. But what does an...

Clavicular cuts a path across Tel Aviv, dividing pro-Israel influencers over his record of antisemitism

By THEIA CHATELLE

(JTA) — TEL AVIV — When Israeli influencer Aaron Morali realized that the celebrity drawing a crowd at the Loullie beach club on Saturday night was Braden Peters — better known as Clavicular — he alerted staff.

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US military says it struck 140 Iranian targets after ‘blatant’ Islamic Republic attack on ship in Hormuz

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org) – The U.S. military struck 140 military targets in Iran—the third round of strikes in a week—after the Islamic Republic “blatantly” attacked the Cyprus-flagged container ship GFS Galaxy as it went through the Strait of Hormuz,...

A growing number of federations are asking Jews if they identify as Zionist — and grappling with the results

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — Yet another survey has found that fewer than half of Jews in an American city identify as Zionists — this time in Milwaukee, the childhood home of Golda Meir, the Zionist icon and former Israeli prime...

Rahm Emanuel: Pursuit of Greater Israel as ‘fanatical’ as the chant ‘from the river to the sea’

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

(JTA) — The pursuit of Greater Israel is a corrosive fantasy, veteran Democratic politician Rahm Emanuel is expected to tell a Tel Aviv audience on Wednesday, calling it as “destructive and fanatical” as the chant “from the...

Trump says Iran ceasefire ‘over’ as Hegseth cancels Israel visit amid rising tensions

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the ceasefire with Iran was “over” after the U.S. military pounded sites in Iran and the Islamic regime struck dozens of American military facilities in the region. 

“I think...

A narrowed Michigan Democratic Senate race leaves Jewish voters with a stark choice

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — When Michigan state senator Mallory McMorrow suspended her campaign for the U.S. Senate on Sunday, some progressive Jews were bereft.

“I’m still in mourning,” Eve Mokotoff, a public health expert who had been advising McMorrow’s...