A coalition of more than 55 centrist and progressive Jewish groups is lobbying against a bipartisan bill that would give the Treasury Department broad powers to revoke the tax exemption of any nonprofit it deems to be a “terrorist-supporting organization.” The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act is slated for a vote […]
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WASHINGTON — At an annual event meant to honor people who champion its agenda, the Anti-Defamation League spotlighted a roster of Israelis and Americans whose stories reflected the fears and small triumphs Jews have experienced following more than a year of war in Israel and antipathy at home. There were three college students who fought […]
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A number of progressive Jewish groups are backing an effort by Sen. Bernie Sanders to block arms sales to Israel. The effort, a collection of several resolutions, is unlikely to pass in the closely divided Senate but could split Democratic lawmakers. The push is driving a wedge among Jewish organizations in the lead-up to Wednesday’s […]
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The oldest stone inscription of the Ten Commandments will go up for auction next month, but with an important disclaimer: Israel allowed the 1,500-year-old tablet to leave the country 20 years ago only on condition that whoever owns it ensures that it’s always available for public display. Sotheby’s is planning to note this history on the […]
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Full of lofty ambitions, a museum focused on American Jews has put its faith in a new leader who comes from Israel. The reason that Philadelphia’s Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History trusts Dan Tadmor to elevate the institution’s profile over the coming years is that he recently finished doing something similar at his […]
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The head of Jewish Federations of North America is doubling down on nonpartisanship after one of his executives upset colleagues last week by signaling excitement about Jewish settlement in Gaza. The remark by Karen Paikin Barall, JFNA’s vice president of government relations, came during a meeting in Washington, D.C., held a week after Donald Trump’s […]
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As the National Book Awards gears up for its annual literary awards show this Wednesday, the foundation is defending its decision to honor someone who recently republished an infamous antisemitic tract from the 1990s. Paul Coates, founder of the pioneering Afrocentric publishing house Black Classic Press and father to journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates, will […]
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WASHINGTON — One of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s last actions as the outgoing Senate majority leader is an attempt to codify a controversial definition of antisemitism in the face of claims from the left and the right that it impinges on free speech. The New York Jewish Democrat announced Friday that he hopes to attach the […]
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and onetime presidential candidate who has compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust and mused that the COVID-19 pandemic was engineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews, is president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Trump announced his pick for the Cabinet position on […]
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Following a prolonged drop in visitation and donations from the public stemming from the Covid pandemic, the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco announced Wednesday it’s taking a “sabbatical.” That’s the word the museum is using to describe the closure of its galleries to visitors starting Dec. 15 for at least a year as the […]
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