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After Days of Clashes With ultra-Orthodox Over COVID Rules, Israeli Police Brace for More
Large forces deploy to major ultra-Orthodox communities as tensions peak and politicians deliver mixed messages
Large forces deploy to major ultra-Orthodox communities as tensions peak and politicians deliver mixed messages
Jura Abaev, who died last week at the age of 93, had served as the spiritual leader of the Khujad synagogue and had also immigrated to Israel three times – but returned each time, calling Khujand the only home he ever had
The Texas senator and the comedian have been sniping at each other for days on Twitter. (Warning: graphic language)
Reconciliation, reparation and justice in racism-ridden America can be achieved by the joint efforts of Blacks and Jews driven by the visions of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel, their daughters say
Decision overrules Jewish Agency, which had formally recognized the 2,000-strong Abayudaya community several years ago. A ruling in favor of the state could have serious repercussions for 'emerging Jewish communities’ around the world
The last heir of the disgraced House of Savoy, whose family had until now refused to apologize, attempts to atone for his ancestor's role in Mussolini's racial policies
The Jewish branch of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) is minuscule, but its co-chair says ‘many Jews’ will be voting for the anti-immigrant party in September. Not a chance, say other Jewish groups
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for investigation into a report Trump want to replace the acting attorney general in an attempt to overturn the election
No cause of death was given, but CNN reported January 2 that King had been hospitalized for more than a week with COVID-19
Rep. Mikie Sherrill says she doesn't know whether it's worse if people 'are true believers of this hatred and ideology,' or if they were just 'willing to tolerate it'
In Israel's early years, members of the government had bitter arguments about the appointment of non-Ashkenazi justices to the Supreme Court. The consequences of these discussions, which ultimately led to the creation of the 'Sephardi chair,' are felt to this day
COVID-19 is surging again in Israel's ultra-Orthodox communities. But no matter how many die, the ultra-Orthodox yeshivas and shuls won’t close, because every death is a holy sacrifice for a higher cause
The Republican Party has sent the vanguard of a noisy new generation of racists, antisemitism appeasers and insurrection-enablers into Congress. And a deluded Ivanka Trump thinks the GOP’s dark future belongs to her
People dressed in black and with their faces covered broke windows and the glass door at the Democratic Party of Oregon business office in Portland
The reports were about conversations that President Kais Saied, who opposes normalization with Israel, had Monday
The Proud Boys are a neofascist group known for engaging in violent clashes at political rallies
The Trump era, and its insurrectionist end, shows why the insistence of historians who call fascism a ‘demon of the past’ is both inaccurate – and dangerous
Sanders responded to the attention: 'In Vermont, we know something about the cold and we're not so concerned about good fashion'
The Biden-Harris administration will need to act with 'courage, speed, and vision to heal the nation,' says Reform leader. World Jewish Congress' Lauder: 'The Jewish community could not have a better ally in the White House'
Rainbow's viral videos have become a kind of soundtrack for the Trump years
Antony Blinken told the Foreign Relations Committee of his late stepfather’s escape from a concentration camp and rescue by U.S. troops at Tuesday’s hearing
Domestic extremism, white supremacy and hate crimes to take top priority if he becomes Homeland Security Secretary, Mayorkas says in his confirmation hearing
Meet the eleven Jewish figures – four of them women – that will be part of the incoming U.S. administration
The NGO Israel Hofsheet finds that Arab and secular towns received more fines for breaking coronavirus regulations than ultra-Orthodox ones, even when they had far fewer infections
The Jewish organization lauded Alejandro Mayorkas' work as deputy secretary homeland security during the Obama administration in protecting Jewish institutions from antisemitic attacks
With Ossoff and Warnock in Georgia, the Democrats were able to draw on decades of cooperation, dating back to the days of Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1950s, to win back control of the Senate
A history book referring to the role of a Polish mayor – in saving or murdering Jews – has triggered a libel suit that is testing freedom of speech and being closely watched in the academic world
Donald Trump's four years in office were some of the most dramatic in U.S. Jewish history. From Pittsburgh to Jerusalem, from Charlottesville to COVID, over a dozen American Jews reflect on the moments, memories and stories that defined this era
There was no ‘economic anxiety’ among the pro-Trump mob besieging the Capitol, from CEOs to Olympic champions. There was, though, plenty of blatant racism and antisemitism. So why has the liberal media pampered these fascists for so long?
Did Stalin kill him? And why? Until Putin reveals his fate, Raoul Wallenberg is still Russia’s prisoner
Benjamin de Rothschild was the chairman of Edmond de Rothschild Holding SA, and the grandson of famed Israel benefactor, Baron Edmond Rothschild
Countless bunkers, a mystical sect's paradisaical shrine and a royal palace – a journey through Albania to find the burial place of a false Messiah
'To see this punk with that shirt on, and his antisemitism that he has bragged about to be part of a white supremacist raid' demands a review, the House speaker said
'This is a feeling of great emptiness and loss, but also a sense of comfort, knowing that he is no longer suffering and that he will lie next to some of the greatest people of our nation,' widow Miriam Adelson said before the funeral