Ahead of the High Holidays this year, Rabbi Abe Friedman heard from a congregant who was unsure about renewing their synagogue membership. The uncertainty had nothing to do with the dues, the religious school or the divides plaguing some Jewish communities over the Israel-Hamas war. It was because of comments Friedman had made about the […]
Continue Reading
Hymie’s, a popular Philadelphia Jewish deli, raised some Jewish hackles when it served as the scene of the Republican Jewish Coalition’s closing ad — featuring Jewish actors playing older women who, after supporting Democrats, were switching their votes to Donald Trump. So 10 days later, a Democratic organization stepped in to film a pro-Kamala Harris […]
Continue Reading
The president of Chicago’s public school board resigned Thursday after only a week on the job following two days of backlash over his history of antisemitic social media posts. Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson had defied calls to resign just a day before, even as a growing share of the city council and Illinois’ Jewish Democratic […]
Continue Reading
In early 2017, a Jewish government employee and former Democratic congressional aide named Ellis Brachman shared a Facebook post featuring a short BBC interview with a Holocaust survivor. Brachman shared the post one day after International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and as the newly inaugurated Trump administration was facing blowback for issuing a statement commemorating the […]
Continue Reading
Sid Rosenberg was anxious, despite his decades speaking to the public, as he prepared to take the stage at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday. “I was nervous, 100%, when I was about halfway down the red carpet, walking closer and closer to the podium and the microphone,” the conservative talk radio host […]
Continue Reading
As Orthodox Jews, Chaya and Jonathan Loffman were deeply committed to having their 3-year-old son educated at a religious school. But when he was diagnosed with autism, they discovered that California law bars religious schools from receiving government funding for special education needs. Faced with this dilemma, the Loffmans enrolled him in Maor Academy, an […]
Continue Reading
Conspiracy theories. Bomb threats. Anti-Israel protests. Street violence. Jews have been the targets of all these things this year, as reports of antisemitism have spiked during the Israel-Hamas war. Now, less than a week before Election Day, security analysts say those same factors could put Jews at risk during and after the voting — especially […]
Continue Reading
Nikki Fried, the Jewish chairwoman of the Florida Democratic Party, told Jewish canvassers in her state that the party was losing Jewish voters because of the robust Republican response to pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses. Fried’s ostensible pep talk to canvassers seeking to reach undecided Jewish voters, coming Wednesday evening in a Zoom call organized […]
Continue Reading
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson condemned the shooting of an Orthodox Jewish man who was walking to synagogue, but drew blowback for not mentioning the victim’s Jewish identity. Other political leaders have also condemned the shooting, which took place Saturday in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of West Rogers Park. The suspect, Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22, then […]
Continue Reading
When Jonathan Greenblatt used his platform as the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League on Monday to condemn a certain act of bigotry, his longtime predecessor atop the ADL, Abe Foxman, took notice — not just of what Greenblatt said but also of what he didn’t say that day. In a post on X, formerly known […]
Continue Reading
