Brooklyn event with Itamar Ben-Gvir cancelled days before Israeli far-right minister’s US trip

A fundraiser with Itamar Ben-Gvir to be held at Brooklyn’s Jewish Children’s Museum was abruptly cancelled Friday, shortly after being announced. The event featuring the far-right Israeli minister was to be hosted by Beis Shmuel Chabad, a Crown Heights synagogue, as a benefit for Chabad of Hebron, in the West Bank. Following a Jewish Telegraphic […]

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Marco Rubio sits down with Michael Benz, Jewish former Trump official with an antisemitic online persona

Secretary of State Marco Rubio promoted an interview this week with a conservative influencer who has praised Hitler online, in the latest example of a Trump official conversing with a white nationalist figure. Michael Benz, who served in the State Department in Trump’s first term, revealed in 2023 he was the author of “Frame Game,” […]

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Josh Shapiro recounts arson terror but does not back Schumer’s call for federal hate crime investigation

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro revealed on Thursday that investigators had managed to retrieve ritual Passover items from the dining room that was heavily damaged by an arsonist’s fire shortly after his family’s seder on Saturday night. “Some just required a dusting and a cleaning,” he said outside a Harrisburg firehouse where he and his wife […]

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