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El-Sayed lead over Stevens narrows in Michigan Senate primary with large focus on Israel

By GRACE GILSON and ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — DETROIT — Former county health official Abdul El-Sayed’s lead over U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary has narrowed as votes continue to be tallied. With 95% of ballots...

Trump says planned Iran strikes canceled after ‘perimeters’ of new deal agreed

By AKIVA VAN KONINGSVELD

(JNS.org) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he had canceled a planned attack on Iran after Tehran had agreed in principle to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and negotiate an end to its nuclear...

The El-Sayed effect: How Jews and Israel are factoring into Michigan’s other primary races

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — DETROIT — The intra-party debate over Israel that has dominated Michigan’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary is reverberating further down the ballot throughout the state.

Progressive former county health official Abdul El-Sayed’s bid to lead a...

Netanyahu compares New York with ‘the 1930s’ after ‘hate-spewing’ Mamdani calls for his arrest

By SHIRA LI BARTOV

(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s leadership with “the 1930s,” escalating a showdown between the two leaders as Netanyahu plans to visit the city in the coming weeks.

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Mamdani’s Netanyahu video fuels the debate over the meaning of antisemitism

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL

(JTA) — In 2002, Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, described a series of mostly anti-Israel actions on and beyond campus as “antisemitic in their effect if not their intent.”

Summers’ reputation has suffered since then for...

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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