A growing number of federations are asking Jews if they identify as Zionist — and grappling with the results

Yet another survey has found that fewer than half of Jews in an American city identify as Zionists — this time in Milwaukee, the childhood home of Golda Meir, the Zionist icon and former Israeli prime minister. The survey, released last week by the Milwaukee Jewish Federation, found that 43% of Jewish adults said they identified […]

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Haley Stevens takes aim at Netanyahu in Michigan Senate debate, as opponent Abdul El-Sayed calls Israel a ‘rogue state’

Viewers of Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary debate on Tuesday night could be forgiven for at times forgetting that one candidate comes with the heavy backing of pro-Israel donors. “The prime minister of Israel has failed,” Rep. Haley Stevens said when asked about Iran, saying that both Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump had […]

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NY woman charged with attempting to send over $30,000 to Palestinian Islamic Jihad

A New York woman was arrested and charged with attempting to provide financial support to “Palestine Islamic Jihad,” a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist group, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. Catherine Beth Washburn, 37, of Irondequoit, New York, allegedly sent more than $30,000 in cryptocurrency across 80 transactions to an individual who identified as a Palestinian Islamic […]

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Survey: Jews in smaller communities feel less heard when raising concerns about antisemitism

Jews living in smaller communities are less likely than those in large communities to feel their concerns about antisemitism are taken seriously by law enforcement and would-be allies, a new survey from the Jewish Federations of North America has found. Jews in smaller communities were “lacking a sense of allyship in the communities around them,” […]

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