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Trump earns fresh comparisons to Cyrus the Great as last living hostages return home

Trump earns fresh comparisons to Cyrus the Great as last living hostages return home

Knesset speaker hails the US president ‘as a giant of Jewish history,’ after he was first compared to the ancient Persian ruler in 2018...

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‘Jewish donors play into all the stereotypes,’ Charlie Kirk wrote in leaked texts before murder

‘Jewish donors play into all the stereotypes,’ Charlie Kirk wrote in leaked texts before murder

Messages over cancelled donations seen as further evidence that Kirk’s frustrations with the behavior of Israel and its supporters were boiling over

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Texas school district yanks Holocaust book ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic’ over ‘DEI content’

Texas school district yanks Holocaust book ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic’ over ‘DEI content’

Decision made after Austin suburb’s Leander Independent School District undertook review using AI; teacher says he suspects novel was pulled as...

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Mamdani, appearing on ‘The View,’ earns applause for calling Gaza war a ‘genocide’

Mamdani, appearing on ‘The View,’ earns applause for calling Gaza war a ‘genocide’

Disagreeing, host Sara Haines says NYC mayoral candidate has made other ‘inflammatory’ comments ‘like calling Israel an apartheid...

02.10.2025 10

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Hezbollah weakened but financially resilient a year after Israel war

Despite losses, terror group still managing to pay its fighters and fund social services; US says it’s still receiving $60 million monthly from...

24.09.2025 40

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Jewish mayor of Florida’s Miami-Dade County faces off against own son over Israel

Jewish mayor of Florida’s Miami-Dade County faces off against own son over Israel

Illustrating generational divide over Gaza war, Ted Cava calls on county to shed $151 million in Israel bonds, as Daniella Levine Cava says...

24.09.2025 40

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Rejecting far-right conspiracy theory, Netanyahu reiterates Israel didn’t kill Charlie Kirk

While police haven’t raised the possibility, figures close to the murdered pundit are pointing fingers at the Jewish state, reflecting growing...

20.09.2025 40

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University leaders endorse US Jewish letter decrying Trump’s campus antisemitism wars

Among over 100 signatories to missive slamming the president’s ‘disingenuous claims’ of Jew-hatred to deport students are a Ben...

19.09.2025 10

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GOP rep. to Jewish colleague: ‘I have a good surgeon if you ever want to get your nose done’

Republican congresswoman Nancy Mace, who has opposed campus antisemitism, uses antisemitic stereotype during row over gender-affirming care with...

12.09.2025 10

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Jewish lawmaker who shared stage with Seinfeld decries his ‘Free Palestine’-KKK comparison

Sophia Chitlik, a Democratic North Carolina state senator who interviewed freed Hamas hostage at event where the Jewish comedian appeared, calls his...

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Judaic studies faculty spared budget cuts at University of Oregon

Though staffers had raised alarms, cutbacks aimed at addressing institution’s $29 million deficit won’t affect Holocaust studies chair

10.09.2025 10

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Jewish Studies faculty at U of Oregon rally to protect their jobs from feared budget cuts

Amid a tense atmosphere on US campuses after Oct. 7, many worry that broader reductions in humanities will find their way to professors teaching...

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Amid Gaza war, Detroit archbishop’s Holocaust center tour yields mixed messages

Next to display on rabid WWII-era antisemite Father Charles Coughlin, newly appointed Edward Weisenburger speaks out on humanitarian crisis in...

23.08.2025 40

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US Justice Department releases transcript of interview with Jeffrey Epstein accomplice

Ghislaine Maxwell expresses doubt that the convicted sex offender killed himself, says though Trump was friendly with him the US president was...

23.08.2025 50

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World Zionist Congress lifts ban on Betar USA chief, letting him serve as a delegate

ZOA appeals tribunal rules in favor of Ronn Torossian after he was barred for his ‘aggressive, hateful tone and vulgarity’ amid spat with...

23.08.2025 50

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E.J. Antoni, Trump’s new favorite economist, thinks a Nazi warship is ‘hard not to love’

President’s nominee to run Bureau of Labor Statistics has also had exchanges about German victimhood with pundit Candace Owens, even as many...

16.08.2025 40

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UD Homeland Security Department accused of tweeting antisemitic dog whistles

Government office posts recruitment ad for ICE that alludes to the title of a 1978 book steeped in conspiracy theories and explicit threats against...

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California Jewish groups say Trump’s $1B demand of UCLA ‘doesn’t make Jewish students safer’

Jewish coalition states move will ‘drive a wedge between the Jewish community and other vulnerable groups that are harmed,’ lead to...

13.08.2025 50

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Unsatisfied with protests, anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace aims to sway US elections

With support at a high after Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities, group asks members to donate to a new entity not bound by current restrictions on partisan...

19.07.2025 50

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Trump’s Social Security Administration cuts hurt US Holocaust survivors, advocates say

Attorneys say DOGE’s slashing of staffers and field offices may make it harder to correct a longtime glitch that can cause survivors in their 80s...

27.06.2025 10

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15 years after his death, a Jewish bridge builder is buried in Michigan

Lawrence Rubin, who led construction of America’s 3rd-longest suspension bridge and had a well-attended 2010 funeral, was only recently found in a...

16.06.2025 50

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Head of RFK Jr.’s MAHA Institute believes the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are real

Social justice watchdog group finds that anti-vaxxer Leland Lehrman also believes Israel may have been behind 9/11, has said that Jewish Americans...

11.06.2025 30

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Dave Portnoy says not sure if tirades at ‘F*** the Jews’ bar patron did any good

Barstool Sports mogul admits biggest payoff was showing solidarity with Jews amid concerns over antisemitism, raising a little awareness

10.06.2025 50

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Trump’s new travel ban will block ‘those in need of real refuge,’ says AJC

Statement by one of the world’s largest Jewish organizations, comes as some Jewish groups have signaled growing unease with president’s policies

06.06.2025 10

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Antics or antisemitism? Pro wrestler Sami Zayn has Israeli WWE fans feeling betrayed

Some are demanding the pro-Palestinian wrestling star be disciplined for outspoken political social media posts, while admitting execs may be pleased...

23.05.2025 30

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US Jewish security groups grapple with lapses in deadly Washington museum shooting

Head of local Jewish community relations council calls to ‘extend the perimeter around our institutions,’ notes finite resources limit...

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US university bans student for commencement speech calling to divest from Israel

Speaker at George Washington graduation urges alumni not to donate, decries Gaza ‘genocide’; DC school apologizes for...

22.05.2025 20

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Ohio man checked out books on Jewish history from Cleveland library, then burned them

Man gathered 100 books on topics related to the Jewish, Black and LGBTQ communities, including ‘The Diary of Anne Frank,’ and posted book burning...

14.05.2025 10

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After relentless US bombing campaign, Yemen’s Houthis are biggest victors of truce

Analysts say truce agreement fails to curb ambitions of rebel group, which finds itself becoming increasingly indispensable in Iran’s eyes

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Self-described Nazi rapper Kanye West releases new song titled ‘Heil Hitler’

West reportedly claims song comes in response to having assets frozen, losing custody of children; clip features black men chanting Nazi slogan

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Trump’s budget plan includes Israel-inspired ‘Golden Dome for America’ missile shield

Proposal follows US president’s previous praise for the defense system, but feasibility of implementation is unclear; report says project could be...

03.05.2025 30

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Nathan Fielder says Paramount+ pulled his TV episode on Holocaust awareness after Oct. 7

In the latest season of ‘The Rehearsal,’ the Jewish comedian reveals that a 2015 segment about his genocide awareness apparel brand Summit Ice was...

30.04.2025 20

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Homes raided as part of Michigan crackdown on pro-Palestinian vandalism targeting Jews

In rarity, US federal agents involved in investigation of series of incidents in which homes and Jewish institutions were targeted with messages such...

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An elite Jewish society at Yale fractures over its director’s embrace of Itamar Ben Gvir

As Shabtai, which says it promotes free speech, welcomes the far-right Israeli minister at off-campus events, critics in and outside of the group...

24.04.2025 10

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Florida university shooting suspect used neo-Nazi imagery on social media, ADL finds

Phoenix Ikner, 20, used cartoon of Hitler as profile picture, also used emblem of white supremacist Patriot Front, on XBOX Live; April 17 shooting at...

22.04.2025 40

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Brooklyn fundraiser with Ben Gvir canceled days before far-right minister’s US trip

19.04.2025 20

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El Salvador’s president, Trump’s new deportation partner, is a pro-Israel Palestinian

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Ben Gvir set to speak at Yale, NYC fundraiser for Chabad of Hebron during US visit

Co-founder of Yale-based Jewish society that extended invite says he ‘admires’ the far-right minister, who some groups plan to protest;...

18.04.2025 10

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Eyeing an escape route in the Trump era, these US Jews are moving to Canada

Changing tides in the United States have some new Canadian residents thinking about Europe in the 1930s and doubting Trump’s promises to right...

16.04.2025 10

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Newest Jewish congressman, GOP Rep. Randy Fine, calls Rashida Tlaib a ‘terrorist’

Florida Republican says Michigan Democrat is not merely a terrorist sympathizer and is ‘a bad person’; further declares some members of...

10.04.2025 20

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Jews at Tufts oppose ICE seizure of anti-Israel grad student, but are wary of protests

While condemning the arrest of Rümeysa Öztürk amid free speech concerns surrounding Trump crackdown, Jewish advocates feel isolated by the tenor of...

06.04.2025 40

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ADL upgrades 19 US colleges’ antisemitism ‘grades,’ as some enact new policies

Watchdog chief: Revision of scores ‘encouraging’; critics argue system fails to take totality of Jewish student life into account, doesn’t focus...

04.04.2025 10

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Could Randy Fine lose? In Florida, Jewish Trump favorite faces unexpectedly close race

The bombastic state senator was favored to easily win the sixth congressional district on Tuesday, but is now only a few points ahead of a Muslim...

02.04.2025 20

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They were poster children for Jewish opposition to Trump 8 years ago. Where are they now?

The American-Israeli Zlotnitsky family is a case study in the conflict facing progressive US Jews as the people they’ve advocated for are some of...

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Influencer Andrew Tate returns to US, bringing his misogynistic antisemitism with him

Far-right content creator, who has praised Hamas as ‘masculine resistance,’ couldn’t leave Romania since 2022 due to rape charges, but...

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DeSantis appointee to Florida university board under fire for remarks about Jews, women

Scott Yenor has criticized Democrats for having too few ‘straight, white non-Jews’ to assume leadership roles; governor has rejected...

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Netflix’s ‘Apple Cider Vinegar’ features a Jewish-run ‘cancer clinic.’ What is it?

The show is based on the true story of two less-than-honest wellness influencers – and an institute in Mexico founded by the daughter of a German...

16.02.2025 50

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Trump’s education secretary pick vows to fight antisemitism, but offers few specifics

Asked about campus antisemitism amid anti-Israel demonstrations, Linda McMahon says protesting is protected speech but ‘activities that are actually...

14.02.2025 30

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Ted Cruz believes a grant to study Hebrew is ‘woke DEI’

The study of differences between Hebrew and English was flagged in a new database, as the GOP seeks to justify cuts to federal research funding and...

13.02.2025 20

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US Jews have long advocated on behalf of immigrants. Is that changing under Trump 2.0?

As Jewish immigrant-rights groups dust off their playbooks from 2016, they face a communal reorientation spurred by Oct. 7 and, some say, a general...

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