WASHINGTON — Adam Schiff, the freshman Democratic senator from California, is being sworn into office on a 1490 edition of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah, one of the most revered and prominent codes of Jewish law. Schiff, in a statement ahead of his swearing in on Monday, said the edition, published in the duchy of Milan, now […]
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In a year filled with challenges, charitable giving has been a source of unity and resilience, particularly for the Jewish community expressing support and solidarity in response to the October 7th attack. Israel-related causes saw a surge in donations, with much of the aid directed to those impacted by the war. In the first six […]
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Randy Fine was sitting shiva for his mother when the Truth Social post went up. A special election was approaching in the Florida politician’s House district after its congressman, Mike Waltz, was tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to be his national security advisor. Trump wanted Fine, the Jewish legislator who had just won his own […]
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This article was produced as part of (JEWISH REVIEW)’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. Few areas outside of Israel felt the sting of Omer Neutra’s death as personally as the Long Island Jewish community where he grew up. Neutra, an […]
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WASHINGTON — Nearly a month after Election Day, it’s safe to say the Jewish results are in, and that they contain a measure of good news for both Republicans and Democrats. Jews, who make up approximately two percent of the U.S. population, present a challenge to pollsters. But several polls in the wake of Nov. […]
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat, is ready to relinquish his title as Senate majority leader, but the most senior Jewish elected official in U.S. history will get to remain the leader of what will be a minority caucus in the next Congress. Senate Democrats reelected Schumer as their leader on Tuesday, […]
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To advance his efforts to return Americans to the moon, President-elect Donald Trump is tapping a Jewish entrepreneur who has traveled privately to space himself. Jared Isaacman, 41, is the founder and CEO of Shift4, a payment processing company. He is best known for his high-profile, private jaunts into space, most recently traveling on a […]
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WASHINGTON — When Donald Trump vowed that there would be “all hell to pay in the Middle East” if hostages are not freed by the time he takes office, what did he mean? The president-elect’s statement, coming after the revelation that American-Israeli Omer Neutra was killed on Oct. 7, 2023, was long on fury and […]
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The man accused of shooting a Jew on his way to synagogue in Chicago in late October has been found dead in his jail cell. Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22, had been arrested and charged with terrorism and hate crime charges for shooting the Orthodox man in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood on Oct. 26, a […]
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President-elect Donald Trump says he is nominating Charles Kushner, his son-in-law’s father, to be ambassador to France, marking a reversal of Kushner’s public standing after he served time in prison nearly two decades ago. Kushner, whose son Jared is married to Ivanka Trump, went to jail in 2005 for fraud, tax evasion and witness tampering. […]
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