Friday, October 31st 2025   |

At mosque, Bernie Sanders criticizes Trump, mentions Holocaust

(JTA) — Bernie Sanders referenced the Holocaust and condemned Republican candidate Donald Trump’s “anti-Muslim rhetoric and hatred” in a visit to a Washington mosque.

Sanders, the Democratic presidential hopeful and Vermont senator, participated in a roundtable discussion with Muslim,...

IDF discovers second weapons cache this week

By ALEXANDER J. APFEL

West Bank (TPS) – For the second time this week, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) discovered a cache of weaponry in a refugee camp. The discovery took place overnight in Qalandiya near Jerusalem during a manhunt for...

OP-ED: Why ‘good for the Jews’ is bad for the Jews

By MIK MOORE

(JTA) — Ever wonder if Bernie Sanders is good for the Jews? How about Andy Warhol? The pope? 9/11? The Diaspora? Alexander the Great? Drake? The year 5775?

These questions and many more have all been asked...

Kuwait Airways, ordered to stop refusing tickets to Israelis, drops NYC-London flight

(JTA) — Kuwait Airways is eliminating service between New York and London after the US Department of Transportation ordered the carrier to stop refusing to sell tickets to Israelis.

Namrata Kolachalam, a spokeswoman for the Department of Transportation, announced the...

Joan Levy Sheridan rites held

JOAN LEVY SHERIDAN, a retired administrative assistant who lived in New Orleans for the past two decades, died peacefully in her sleep at Canon Hospice on Friday, Dec. 11. She was 84.

Sheridan, a native of Chicago, worked for the...

3 centuries after excommunication, is it time to lift ban on Spinoza?

By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ

AMSTERDAM (JTA) – More than 350 years after this city’s Portuguese Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza and banned his writings for eternity, the philosopher’s books are for sale at the souvenir shop of the community’s synagogue.

Spinoza,...

Which Diaspora rabbis does the Rabbinate trust? It depends on this guy

By BEN SALES

(JTA) — Remember Itamar Tubul, the mid-level bureaucrat who decides who can marry in Israel?

Tubul evaluates requests from Israeli immigrants seeking a marriage license. To do so, he needs to ensure that they’re Jewish, and receives...

Argentina’s new government voids pact with Iran on AMIA bombing

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — The new government of Argentina effectively voided the agreement with Iran to jointly investigate the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center.

In its first week of operation, the government under President Mauricio Macri withdrew...

Reform leader, Arab-Israeli lawmaker say ‘difficult, honest’ conversation is necessary

(JTA) — The leader of the Reform movement and a leading Arab-Israeli lawmaker said in a joint statement that Arabs and Jews had a shared future that required “honest and difficult” conversations.

The statement by Ayman Odeh, the head of...

UN envoy Samantha Power poses tough questions for Israelis and Palestinian

(JTA) — U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said the United States and Israel’s security relationship “has never been stronger.”

Speaking Sunday at HaaretzQ, the Israeli newspaper’s daylong event with the New Israel Fund, she stressed U.S. efforts...