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Rob Reiner urges resilience in video address for Holocaust survivor event — recorded just weeks before his murder

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — At a virtual Holocaust survivor event on Thursday, beloved Jewish film director Rob Reiner gave a pre-recorded address where he urged those watching to be “resilient.”

For the survivors, families and advocates who tuned into...

4 members of pro-Palestinian group arrested for planning bombings across Los Angeles

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — Federal authorities have arrested four people in connection to an alleged plot to bomb locations across Southern California on New Year’s Eve.

The four suspects — Audrey Ilene Carroll, 30, Dante Garfield, 24, Zachary Aaron...

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...

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...

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...

Hamas must honor truce deal, State Dept tells JNS after Mashaal rejects Trump Gaza plan

By AKIVA VAN KININGSVELD and AMELIE BOTBOL

(JNS.org) – The United States expects Hamas terrorists “to abide by the deal they signed,” a State Department spokesperson told JNS on Sunday, after terror chief Khaled Mashaal appeared to reject key elements...

Eric Adams issues executive order barring BDS, throwing down gauntlet for successor Zohran Mamdani

By JOSEPH STRAUSS

(JTA) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams threw down a gauntlet for his successor on Wednesday, issuing an executive order barring city officials from taking action against Israel or entities associated with it.

Now, if Zohran...