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Community leaders set to respond to upcoming Ye (formerly Kanye West) concert at Superdome

By ALAN SMASON, Special to the CCJN

A concert scheduled for next Friday at the Caesar’s Superdome is being viewed as both a threat and an opportunity to respond collectively by the New Orleans Jewish community.

The fact that the...

A Jewish federation had big plans for a community campus. Then the money ran out

By GRACE GILSON

When the Jewish federation in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, laid off its entire support staff earlier this month, the move didn’t come as a surprise. Instead, it felt like an inevitable next step in an inexorable trajectory of decline...

Debbie Wasserman Schultz wins Florida congressional primary

By SHARON UDASIN

(JTA) — Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a veteran Southeast Florida Democrat, defeated her opponents in Tuesday’s primary race that took place in unfamiliar territory, following a statewide rewrite of electoral battle lines.  

The Associated Press called the race...

Florida’s primaries have many pain points for Jews. Here are 5 races to watch.

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — As an exhausting primary season begins to wind down, voters in Florida, the last remaining big state yet to hold its primaries, head to the polls Tuesday with several races on the Jewish community’s radar.

The...

How an obscure centrist politician could be key to defeating Netanyahu in October

By TOMER ALMOGAR

(JTA) — TEL AVIV — At a barbecue on a Netanya rooftop earlier this month, MK Yoav Segalovitz, a politician most people outside Israel have never heard of, told his fellow members of the leading opposition party Yesh...

Bronx man faces 14 charges, including assault and six hate crimes, for attack on congregant, guard at Central Synagogue Shabbat service

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org)  – Officers arrested Larry Montes, 46, of the Bronx, on Friday night and charged him with 14 charges, including six hate crimes, after he allegedly hit a 63-year-old woman and spat upon and heat-butted a 65-year-old security...

Judge throws out Trump’s Harvard antisemitism lawsuit, citing lack of evidence

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — A federal judge threw out the Trump administration’s lawsuit that had accused Harvard University of having “turned a blind eye” to Jewish and Israeli students, ending for now the most high-profile campus antisemitism case in...

Michigan rabbis call to protect Jewish delegates at convention after AG, fearing harassment, pulls out of event

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — Michigan rabbis and other Jewish figures delivered a petition to the head of the state’s Democratic Party Monday urging him to “ensure the safety” of all Jewish delegates at the state party’s upcoming convention, underscoring...

How To Be a Jambo Jew

By ALAN SMASON, Exclusive to the CCJN

(Glen Jean, West VA.) – There were many exciting activities promoted at the recently-concluded National Jamboree for Scouting America (formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America) that was held at the Summit...

A Torah Scroll travels to Scouting America’s National Jamboree

By ALAN SMASON, Exclusive to the CCJN

With more than 8800 Scouts and approximately 2500 adult Scouters and staffers, the recently-concluded 2026 National Jamboree, produced by Scouting America (formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America), was one of the...