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Attackers on Sydney Chanukah celebration IDed as father and son Sajid and Naveed Akram

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Australian authorities have identified the two gunmen who unleashed a deadly shooting attack on a Jewish event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach as a father and son who are Pakistani nationals.

Sajid Akram, 50, was killed on the...

Chabad and Uptown JCC host Chanukah community events

The Chabad at the Riverwalk annual Chanukah lighting ceremony sponsored by Chabad-Lubavitch of Louisiana will take place this evening, Sun., Dec. 14, beginning at 4:00 p.m. at Spanish Plaza.

The traditional event will be even more chilly than anticipated due...

Police in Redlands, California, investigating shooting attack on Jewish family’s Chanukah display

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — A California home decorated for Chanukah was targeted Friday night in a drive-by shooting, with police saying the assailants fired what appeared to be an airsoft gun from a car.

During the attack on the...

Unarmed man who tackled Bondi Beach Hanukkah attacker identified as Ahmed al-Ahmed

By PHILISSA CRAMER

(JTA) — A viral video circulating after the Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack showed an unarmed man racing toward one of the shooters and tackling him from behind before wrestling the gun from his hands.

The man has...

World leaders react to deadly Chanukah terror attack in Sydney

 (JNS.org) – World leaders offered varied reactions to Sunday’s terrorist attack against Jews in Sydney, ranging from offering general condolences, including by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, to accusing the Australian government of allowing antisemitic hatred to fester, as...

Top ADL civil rights lay leader quits, accusing group of being ‘useful idiot’ for Trump

By RON KAMPEAS

(JTA) — The former top litigation volunteer at the Anti-Defamation League is making public his scorching resignation letter from the group, in the latest sign of Jewish discontent over the organization’s shifts during the second Trump administration.

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Columbia must add Middle East faculty who are ‘not explicitly anti-Zionist,’ antisemitism task force urges

By PHILISSA CRAMER

(JTA) — Students at Columbia University have little access to academic expertise on the Middle East that does not come from an “explicitly anti-Zionist” perspective, the school’s antisemitism task force found.

The Ivy League university “should work...

Ran Gvili, last remaining Israeli hostage in Gaza, featured on 2 Times Square digital billboards

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — Commuters in Times Square were confronted this week with a new digital billboard demanding the release of the final remaining hostage in Gaza, Ran Gvili.

“Hamas must release him now,” the billboard reads next to...

Shir Chadash Conservative Synagogue recalls 25th anniversary of merger

Shir Chadash Conservative Congregation presented a “Silver Celebration with Song” gala on November 16, 2025  recalling the 25th anniversary of the formation of the Metairie synagogue.

Shir Chadash was formed out of the merger of two Conservative synagogues, Chevra Thilim...

Piers Morgan grills Nick Fuentes on Jews, the Holocaust and Hitler. Did it pay off?

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — Another conservative media personality with links to mainstream culture has interviewed Nick Fuentes, the avowed white nationalist and antisemite whose rising popularity and recent chummy interview with Tucker Carlson has fractured the Republican Party.

The...