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Vice President JD Vance has spent months drawing fire from Jewish conservatives for his refusal to confront antisemitism within the Republican coalition. Now, a new profile suggests that the Jew who is perhaps closest to him — his chief of staff, Jacob Reses — is on board with that approach. An extensive New York magazine […]

Rep. Brad Schneider, an Illinois Democrat, delivered a forceful condemnation of the popular streamer Hasan Piker on Tuesday, warning his fellow Democrats against embracing figures he says traffic in hate. “Hasan Piker is an unapologetic antisemite,” Schneider, who chairs the New Democratic Coalition, wrote in a post on X. “Democrats risk losing our credibility to […]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he regrets comments earlier this month in which he appeared to signal that he agreed with claims that Israel is an “apartheid state.” In an interview published Tuesday in Politico, Newsom said he had meant to echo a New York Times column by Thomas Friedman that warned that Israel could […]

During a press conference last Thursday, organized to address rising antisemitism in the wake of the ramming attack on Temple Israel in Detroit earlier this month, the Oakland County sheriff who helped organize the police response to the incident announced the arrest of what seemed like the latest perpetrator: an individual who had posted an […]

A Chicago man has been charged with making an interstate threat after allegedly responding to Israel’s announcement on X about its killing of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by saying he planned to “shoot up a synagogue.” Timothy Holmes, 31, posted other antisemitic comments in response to posts about Israel, including “the jew will be […]

OXNARD, California — On Friday nights, in Jewish homes around the world, a familiar ritual unfolds: a blessing over wine, poured into a cup and passed around the table. That ritual, multiplied during Passover, may help explain why kosher wine is holding steady even as the broader wine industry struggles. Across the United States and […]

A California lawmaker is introducing a bill that would create a buffer zone around houses of worship, the latest effort by lawmakers to respond to protests against Israel that have taken place outside synagogues. Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, a Jewish Democrat representing a suburban district in the San Francisco Bay Area, unveiled AB 2664, dubbed the […]

It is not every day a sitting mayor celebrates his bar mitzvah. But last Saturday, as more than 700 people packed the pews at Temple Beth-El in Providence, Rhode Island, that’s exactly what unfolded. At the center of the ceremony at the Reform synagogue on the East Side of Providence was the city’s mayor, Brett […]