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Hundreds rally at UN to urge world leaders to address antisemitism 

By JACKIE HAJDENBERG

(JTA) — Hundreds of members of New York’s Jewish community competed against stand-still traffic, security details and dozens of black SUVs Wednesday night to reach Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza near the United Nations. 

Their plea? For world leaders at...

Jewish Dems in Congress oppose plans to merge Holocaust and antisemitism envoys

By JOSEPH STRAUSS

(JTA) — Nearly two dozen Jewish Democrats in Congress signed a letter opposing plans to fold the State Department’s standalone Holocaust envoy office into the office of Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, the Trump administration’s special envoy to monitor and...

Son of Israel’s US Ambassador seriously injured in West Bank ramming attack

By DEBORAH DANAN

(JTA) — A Palestinian assailant seriously wounded the son of Israel’s ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter on Wednesday in a car-ramming attack in the West Bank, where he was serving as an IDF reservist at a checkpoint.

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A Jewish teacher in Philadelphia pretended to be Palestinian for years

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — A Jewish public school teacher and pro-Palestinian advocate in Philadelphia has admitted to fabricating Palestinian, Tunisian and Black heritage to her colleagues for years, in a case that some online commenters are dubbing “the Palestinian Rachel...

Family members eulogize Israeli terror victim Netanel Shukrun, father of six

By NATAN GALULA

(JNS.org)  – Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of Israeli terror victim Netanel Shukrun, who was buried near his home in Samaria shortly after midnight on Tuesday.

Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, head of the Israel Defense Forces’ Central Command,...

Canadian leaders condemn shooting outside Ontario synagogue at the start of Yom Kippur

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

(JTA) — Canadian leaders have condemned a shooting outside the Sons of Jacob synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, at the start of Yom Kippur that left a police officer seriously injured and forced the congregation to cancel services on...

Attacks on synagogues were part of massive ISIS-inspired plot by Pittsburgh-area man, FBI says

By DEREK CANEY

(JTA) — A 21-year-old man from Valencia, Pennsylvania, suggested poisoning food in synagogues as part of a mass attack in support of the terrorist group Daesh (Islamic State) last week.

The suspect, Jonathan Kramer, said in an online...

After outcry, Texas lieutenant governor says schools should teach Holocaust books ‘Night,’ ‘Anne Frank’

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — The lieutenant governor of Texas says his recent call for the state’s public schools to remove “over 2,000 titles” of “dirty, filthy and vulgar books” was not meant to include books about the Holocaust.

Dan Patrick’s...

Jewish radio host Sid Rosenberg says he ‘charmed’ JD Vance, after slamming his stances on Israel

By SHARON UDASIN

(JTA) — Conservative radio personality Sid Rosenberg, a vocal critic of JD Vance’s positions toward Israel, left a meeting with the vice president on Thursday giddy with optimism. 

“I went in there with very low expectations,” Rosenberg told...

Jerusalem Reform synagogue egged in second attack in a month

By DEBORAH DANAN

(JTA) — A Reform synagogue in Jerusalem was targeted for the second time in a month when a group of Jewish youths threw eggs at worshippers arriving for Rosh Hashanah services, in what the congregation described as an...