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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...

Hundreds of Patriot Front members march in Washington on July 4, alarming Jewish groups

By PHILISSA CRAMER

(JTA) — Hundreds of people affiliated with the white supremacist group Patriot Front marched in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, in a July 4 show of force by the group founded by a veteran of a landmark 2017...

At Entebbe reunion, former hostages say Oct. 7 shattered their faith in Israel’s promise of rescue

By DEBORAH DANAN

(JTA) — TEL AVIV — For the survivors of Operation Entebbe, marking the 50th anniversary was less a celebration of one of Israel’s most mythologized military operations than a reckoning with the distance between the country that...