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Locals line up to show support at Toronto bagel shops hit with gunfire, vandalism

By SHIRA LI BARTOV

(JTA) — Locals lined up outside a Toronto bagel shop on Monday in a show of support after attacks on two outposts of the Jewish-owned chain, adding to a string of incidents facing Jewish businesses in...

US ‘Locked and loaded’ for ‘higher level’ attacks on Iran, Trump says

 By ANDREW BERNARD   (JNS.org)  – U.S. President Donald Trump said that he was ready to launch a “higher level” of attacks against Iran on Friday, as the two countries continue negotiations.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said...

Austrian town turns Hitler’s birthplace into a police station to keep neo-Nazis at bay

By TOBY AXELROD

(JTA) — How do you stop neo-Nazis from meeting up at Adolf Hitler’s birthplace? Station officers there around the clock, of course.

That is just what the small town of Braunau in Austria has done — but the...

Maine Democratic Senate nominee-in-waiting Troy Jackson raises eyebrows in the Jewish community

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — BANGOR, Maine – Throughout his two-decade-long career as a state lawmaker in Maine, Troy Jackson built his political brand around labor and economic issues.

But as the former logger and state Senate president now seeks...

MAGA influencer Laura Loomer mounts Jewish apology tour in Ukraine, meeting with Zelensky and rabbi

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — MAGA firebrand Laura Loomer, who is warring with anti-Israel figures on the right, is invoking her Judaism as she pulls an about-face on a former hobbyhorse of hers: Ukraine.

Loomer interviewed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky...

NYPD: Jewish man stabbed in Manhattan by attacker yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’

By JOSEPH STRAUSS

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — NEW YORK – An assailant on Thursday stabbed two victims, one of whom was visibly Jewish, in an area of Manhattan’s Upper West Side known for its Jewish institutions.

Police...

Theater manager who added ‘the Jews’ to ‘Odyssey’ marquee calls antisemitism ‘exaggerated’

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — The manager of a movie theater in suburban Portland, Oregon, is defending a cryptic marquee message about Jews and “The Odyssey” by saying modern-day antisemitism is “exaggerated” to help Israel.

“Before there were the Jews,...

Sinwar document details plans for ‘10,000-strong’ terror invasion force

By YAAKOV LAPPIN

(JNS.org)  – Documents obtained by the IDF during ground operations in the Gaza Strip continue to shed light on the thinking of Oct. 7, 2023, massacre mastermind and former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

On July 13, the Meir...

US strikes Iran for eighth straight night after deadly attack on troops

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org)  – The U.S. military struck Iranian targets on Saturday for an eighth consecutive night, hours after U.S. Central Command said the Islamic Republic had killed two U.S. service members in Jordan the previous day.

Iranian coastal surveillance...

In the wake of Graham Platner’s success (and fall), a candidate to replace him changes his mind about ‘genocide’

By JOSEPH STRAUSS

(JTA) — When Jordan Wood vied last fall for the Democratic nomination for Maine’s U.S. Senate seat, he avoided accusing Israel of genocide, citing a link between rising antisemitism and “the language” that people use.

Graham Platner,...