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Figures who once defined Jewish establishment line up behind J Street

By RON KAMPEAS

(JTA) — J Street, the Jewish advocacy group that calls itself pro-Israel and pro-peace, has sought a seat at the Jewish establishment table since its inception in 2008 – and has been repeatedly rebuffed. 

Now it is building...

IDF troops hold fire as Gazan child carries weapon down street for terrorist

By JNS STAFF

 (JNS.org) – Israel’s Foreign Ministry posted video on Sunday of footage from the Israel Defense Forces showing a terrorist using a Gazan child as a human shield to move weapons to a civilian home. The IDF refrained from...

German city bans stumbling stone memorials to Nazi victims

By TOBY AXELROD

(JTA) — A decision to bar the “stumbling stone” memorials to victims of the Nazis has touched a nerve in one small German town, and beyond.

At issue is a motion – passed Sept. 25 by the city...

More than 350 cultural figures slam Spanish festival for canceling a Jewish novelist for her Israel views

By SHIRA LI BARTOV

(JTA) — MADRID — More than 350 writers and other cultural figures have signed a petition defending the author Ariana Harwicz, who was disinvited from a literary festival in Spain over her support for Israel. 

The Jewish-Argentinian...

Police label shooting in Belleville, Ontario, a hate-motivated attack against the Jewish community

By EMMA PAIDRA

(JTA) — TORONTO – The shooter who opened fire on a Belleville, Ontario, synagogue Sunday evening committed an anti-Jewish hate-motivated offense, according to the city’s police chief.

“This was a deliberate attack directed at members of the Jewish...

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,...