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Politics | Opinion
Gaslighting on steroids - Melanie Phillips
The libels against Israel are all falling apart.
Politics | Opinion
Never Again, Has Blinded Us
From the blog of Barry Mellinger at The Times of Israel
News | Antisemitism Watch
Jews, 4% of Massachusetts residents, targeted in 83.3% of commonwealth’s religion-bias hate crimes in 2025
The state’s data “affirms what we already know as members of the Jewish community, that we are in the midst of an ongoing and unprecedented experience of being targeted as Jews,” Jeremy Burton, CEO of the local JCRC, told JNS.
Politics | Opinion
El-Sayed, the Democrats, AIPAC and the war on American Jews
The Michigan primary was a referendum on the Jewish presence in the public square. The consequences of normalizing his antisemitism will impact much more than the pro-Israel group.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Elder Of Ziyon - Mamdani's New York, illustrated
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
News | News
OU, Kof-K haven’t heard from Mamdani about kosher food at city-run groceries
New York City’s request for proposal states that operators at the five city groceries must offer “kosher, halal, gluten free, dairy-free, vegan, diabetic options.”
Politics | Opinion
Too many Jews have a dangerous habit of apologizing for self-defense.
Someone needs to say it: The preservation of Palestinian comfort is not morally superior to the preservation of Jewish life.
News | Articles By Me
The Real Boys (And Girls) From Brazil - Joshua Namm
In 1976 a novel came out by author Ira Levin. It was called The Boys From Brazil. The dystopian future is already here.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Jewish legal groups slam Mamdani's exclusion of Jews from judicial appointments paneL, in city where Jews make up 1/2 of all lawyers
Failure to find a single Jewish lawyer to sit on 18-member committee meant to 'reflect' New Yorkers is part of a 'troubling pattern' in far-left mayor's administration, letter says
Politics | Judea & Samaria
Elder Of Ziyon - There are more attacks AGAINST "settlers" than BY them
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Man seriously injured in antisemitic assault in Brooklyn
A man in his 60s was seriously injured after being attacked on a street in Flatbush, New York. The New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Unit opened an investigation into the circumstances.
News | Antisemitism Watch
2025 deadliest year for Jews outside Israel since Buenos Aires bombing
Last year "was one of the most violent years for American Jews on record," stated Jonathan Greenblatt, of the ADL. "We were targeted an average of 17 times a day."
Music | Music
Boy George's New Song Is an Act of Moral Bravery
Boy George's blunt new song about October 7 is causing a stir. He deserves our support for having the courage to speak up.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Man with hammer arrested after entering Jewish camp in NYC, bumping child who was hospitalized with ‘minor lacerations the head
The New York City Police Department told JNS that it is still determining motive but is probing the incident as bias related.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Torah scrolls stolen from Grand Synagogue of Levallois near Paris
"It was with shock and anger that I learned this morning that the Jewish community of Levallois had been struck at what is most sacred and precious to it," said Levallois Mayor Agnès Pottier-Dumas.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Toronto police probing if shots fired outside US consulate tied to attacks on Jewish-owned bakeries prior day
“Investigators are examining all possibilities, including whether the two incidents may be related,” a spokeswoman for the Toronto Police Service told JNS.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Woman calls Jewish leader ‘evil Zionist’ at Bondi Beach massacre site
The offender is reportedly a public servant out on bail for staging a fake bomb threat outside a synagogue in Sydney.
News | JEWISH COMMUNITY
Must be price for Jewish blood, ‘mayhem going on,’ rabbi tells JNS after man wearing kippah stabbed in NYC by attacker who, witnesses say, yelled ‘Allahu akbar’
"We're a tiny percentage of the population, yet we're over 50% of the attacks, and the mayor's diatribes don't help," Rabbi Allen Schwartz of Ohab Zedek, a synagogue the victim attends, told JNS on the fast of Tisha B'Av.
News | JEWISH COMMUNITY
Tisha B'Av: What Is This Day Really About?
What are we actually mourning on Tisha B'Av? It's not just ancient history. It's about home, belonging, and the hope we still carry today.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Elder Of Ziyon - Here's a new one: coding Jews as "deer" in a town council meeting
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
Politics | Opinion
Scapegoating the Jews - Melanie Phillips
Astoundingly, the demonization of Israel has become a key driver of Western politics.
Politics | Opinion
Why liberalism cannot defend Britain: Melanie Phillips on the West’s “suicide note”
Can a Jew still be fully British when support for Israel is treated as evidence of disloyalty? Melanie Phillips tells Jonathan Sacerdoti why she shifted her centre of gravity from London to Jerusalem, how Britain’s cultural institutions turned against her
Politics | Opinion
Israel’s 'medical malpractice’
The Jewish state keeps saving those who seek its destruction. Take Erdoğan, for example.
News | Antisemitism Watch
UK group hosts speakers who celebrated October 7 attacks
Palestine House in central London platformed Latifa Abouchakra and Batool Subeiti at a 'Lessons of Resistance' panel event last week.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Israel: Settler Violence is FAKE NEWS
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News | Antisemitism Watch
Fifty-Seven Percent Of American Jews Experienced Antisemitism Over The Past Year
A majority of American Jews experienced antisemitism over the past year, with many changing their behavior out of fear, according to a survey released on Friday by the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) ahead of the United States’ 250th anniversary.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Almost three-quarters of religion-based hate crimes in California in 2025 targeted Jews
Although Jews make up an estimated 3.25% of California residents, anti-Jewish hate crimes made up almost 14.8% of all hate crimes in the state last year.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Israeli attorney recounts online harassment after surviving Bondi Beach massacre - Israel & Jewish News
Hours after the shooting, Arsen Ostrovsky’s blood-soaked image spread “like wildfire,” accompanied by fake manipulations and abusive comments.
News | Antisemitism Watch
We owe the Jews of the 1930s an apology
Perhaps the apology we owe is for assuming we would have done better.
News | Jewish Community
Alarm bells go off in New York - Melanie Phillips
Anti-Zionism is turning the Democratic Party into a mortal enemy of America.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Boston principal apologizes to Muslim, Arab students who felt 'unsafe' after Holocaust lesson
Jewish groups are condemning a Boston middle school principal after he apologized in an email for the impact of a mandatory Holocaust lesson on some students.
News | Antisemitism Watch
UK doctors want IHRA antisemitism definition scrapped
The IHRA definition could have a "chilling effect on political speech," said the British Medical Association, drawing condemnation from Jewish medical groups and Holocaust educators.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Wikipedia bans co-founder indefinitely for promoting initiative to make it less biased, including against
“Wikipedia’s administrators showed that they are above trivial details like formal charges, a designated prosecutor, basic decorum, distinction between prosecution and judge, dispassionate adjudication and so forth,” Larry Sanger told JNS.
Miscellaneous | Jewish Life
Aged 79, America’s Longest-Serving Governor Puts on Tefillin for the First Time
Gov. Terry Branstad finally said ‘yes’ to wrapping with a special pair of tefillin
News | Antisemitism Watch
Gunman Opens Fire in Heart of Montreal’s Jewish Community, Killing Police Officer and Rabbi
A member of law enforcement personnel works at the scene outside the US Consulate after shots were fired, in Toronto, …
News | Antisemitism Watch
Antisemitic violence worldwide in 2025 killed highest number of Jews in 30 years, study finds
Violent antisemitic attacks in 2025 killed the highest number of Jews in 30 years, according to a new annual report collating incidents around the world.
News | Articles By Me
Thank You For Being Decent? - Joshua Namm
As Jews, we need to stop being grateful for being treated like humans.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Is It Time for Jewish Patients in America to Start Worrying?
Rising antisemitism in US healthcare sparks concern for Jewish patients' safety and treatment.
News | Antisemitism Watch
‘An orgy of antisemitism is overtaking the west’: Son of Saul’s László Nemes on Hollywood hypocrisy
His extraordinary Auschwitz film won every award going. Now the Hungarian director is back with new drama Orphan, as well as a Jean Moulin biopic at Cannes. He talks about resurgent global prejudice – and refusing to be lectured by the film industry ‘over
News | Antisemitism Watch
House candidate Maureen Galindo pledges to send 'American zionists' (meaning: Jews) to internment camp (meaning: concentration camp)
Maureen Galindo is running as a Democrat to represent Texas' 35th Congressional District. Controversy-tarred congressional candidate Maureen Galindo this
News | Antisemitism Watch
'Are you Jewish?' Israeli attacked by group of men in Golders Green after speaking Hebrew
Shalev Ben Yakar says Arabic-speaking men dragged him across the road in heavily Jewish London neighborhood, tore his clothes and beat him until he almost lost consciousness
Politics | Opinion
Bill Maher deserves praise, not gratitude, for telling the truth about Israel - Israel & Jewish News
Jews shouldn’t need to treat intellectual honesty as heroism. Nor does it behoove us to grab any morsel of sympathy with the hunger of a hostage.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Los Angeles Jewish institution among targets of foiled terrorist attack, U.S. officials say
A Jewish institution in Los Angeles was among the locations targeted in a recently foiled terrorism plot, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton announced this week. The thwarted terrorist attacks were the result of the recent arr
News | Antisemitism Watch
Swastika flag raised above NYU building named after billionaire Jewish causes donor Michael Steinhardt during graduation
A swastika flag was hoisted above the roof of a New York University building named in honor of a billionaire philanthropist who has donated to Jewish causes.
News | Antisemitism Watch
The Palestinian Laundromat: How Right & Wrong Have Have Been Reversed For Jews
Shockingly, the West has framed antisemitism and anti-Zionism as conscience itself.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Man charged after assault on three Jewish people in London
The charge comes after a pair of separate alleged assaults in the same area
News | Antisemitism Watch
Jewish women ‘whipped’ and child ‘punched’ in separate Stamford Hill, London, attacks
The alleged incidents happened within several hours of one another on Sunday, with both leading to arrests
Politics | Opinion
A community asking how Britain allowed things to get this bad
Thousands marched against antisemitism in London as anger, despair and defiance spilled onto Whitehall
News | Antisemitism Watch
Outrage spurred after news man who killed pro-Israel protester likely only get probation
A man who pled guilty after striking pro-Israel protester Paul Kessler during a 2023 California protest may only receive probation, leading to uproar about the potential sentencing.
Politics | Campus Watch
Exclusive: UC Law SF student gov order form for graduation keffiyehs - Israel & Jewish News
"At commencement this year, we want to support and uplift Palestinian students, faculty and the broader community," per the order form. "Students nationwide have been suspended, expelled, arrested and now deported for their support of Palestinians’ human
Politics | POLITICS
Team Mamdani Kills Page Celebrating New York’s ‘Unique Ties to Israel’ and Large Jewish Community From Official City Website
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration has quietly pulled an official landing page promoting New York City's business ties to Israel, the Washington Free Beacon can reveal.
Politics | Debunking Lies
The deafening lies about Israel and the Jews
From Lebanon to a Gaza flotilla, distortion dominates public discourse while reality is cast aside.
News | Articles By Me
For Jews, Not A Great Spring (So Far) - Joshua Namm
Doing what I do for a living, given my lifelong passion for the Jewish community, and just being a Jew – I am, in no way, even remotely, a stranger to antisemitism.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Australia was ‘golden’ but not anymore, Jews tell royal commission - Israel & Jewish News
The formal public hearings in the probe into the Bondi Beach massacre reveal Australian Jewry's fear and anxiety.
News | Antisemitism Watch
‘No future for Jews of France:’ Scores of French Jewish doctors prepare to immigrate to Israel
Nearly four of five French Jews feel unsafe, according to a recent survey.
News | News
'Panic in the air': Boy George reveals he was caught up in Golders Green terror attack by Somalia-born British knifeman
The Culture Club icon, 64, who has spoken in the past of his ties to Judaism, took to X to share a video from the scene, while revealing: 'You could feel panic in the air'.
News | Antisemitism Watch
2 Jews injured in stabbing attack in London's Golders Green, says emergency response group
Two British Jews have been stabbed by an assailant outside a synagogue in the Golders Green neighborhood of London, the Shomrim emergency response organization says.
History | History
The Jews Who Rode with Daggers | Aish
For 1,500 years, a Jewish community lived in the Caucasus Mountains as warriors, horsemen, and clan fighters. Most Jews have never heard of them.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Most Jew-hatred in Canada in 2025 in 44 years B’nai Brith has tracked hate
“Each incident documented in the audit meant pain, suffering and anguish for a human being, a fellow Canadian,” the Jewish nonprofit said.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
How bad does it have to get before Jews finally leave?
Jews need not wait until things are so bad that they have exhausted all of their options.
News | News
North London Synagogue 'Firebombed' in Latest Anti-Jewish Attack
A synagogue in north London has become the latest Jewish institution in recent weeks to come under attack after an alleged firebombing.
News | Antisemitism Watch
London boosts security after weekend synagogue arson cases
Police increase patrols around Jewish sites after two suspected attempts to burn down synagogues.
News | JEWISH COMMUNITY
The Mets Yet Again Decline to Hold a Jewish Heritage Night
The Mets will once again not hold a Jewish Heritage Night, despite being home to one of the largest Jewish communities in America.
News | Articles By Me
Two Years Later: Jews STILL Deserve Better - Joshua Namm
We are plagued by weak leaders with all of the wrong priorities.
Politics | Blue State/City Life
Men accused of beating man at San Jose diner not charged with hate crime
The three suspects caught on video beating two Israeli-Americans in San Jose will not face hate crime charges in the attack.
News | JEWISH COMMUNITY
This Purim, think of the 10,000 Jews who cannot celebrate
Jewish communities worldwide will celebrate Purim this year - even in bomb shelters - except in one country, where to do so currently would be perilous
News | Articles By Me
Acknowledging Hatred Against Jews Isn't “Complaining” - It's Life Saving - Joshua Namm
I am obviously a vocal critic of antisemites and a chronicler of antisemitism.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Chabad LA Campus for Jewish Life to be Among Largest in the World
$100 million gifted campus among largest contributions to a Jewish organization in history
Politics | POLITICS
Zohran Mamdani's Father Calls Columbia's Anti-Semitism Task Force a 'Prosecutorial Agency' That Acts Like British Imperial Colonizers
Mahmood Mamdani, the Columbia University professor and father of New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani (D.), called Columbia's new anti-Semitism task force a "prosecutorial agency" during a recent University Senate meeting. Professor Mamdani compared the pan
History | History
The Nazi Poster Baby Who Was Actually Jewish | Aish
In the 1930s, the Nazis’ perfect “Aryan” baby was actually a penniless Jewish immigrant.
Politics | Politics
Norman Podhoretz’s intellectual journey and the fate of American Jewry
The “Commentary” editor’s career epitomized both the success of 20th- century Jews and an awakening to the peril posed by the moral collapse of political liberalism.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Reuven Morrison, couple who died trying to stop Bondi Beach attackers praised for heroic efforts
While a Sydney shopowner is being hailed as a hero after disarming one of the gunmen shooting at a Jewish holiday event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, a couple and another man who died after physically confronting the attackers are also being remembered for the
News | Jewish Community
1,300-year-old menorah pendant suggests Rome's ban on Jews from Jerusalem was a failure
After the Holy City was razed in 135 CE, an edict seemed designed to prevent a Jewish return. The discovery of an artifact suggests some tenacious residents could not be kept away
News | JEWISH COMMUNITY
It’s the End of a Mass Delusion in the Jewish Institutional World
A dozen former officials from the Anti-Defamation League are now going on-record with JTA regarding why they have recently resigned from the organization: It is prioritizing anti-Semitism over non-Jewish groups’
Miscellaneous | Things To Do: Los Angeles
Things To Do This Week in Los Angeles (12-15-2025 to 12-19-2025)
Need a distraction this week? Got a few fun to-dos leading the list of possibilities. This December 15-19 in Los
Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism
Dem House Candidate Offers Condolences to Australia’s Jewish Community—Only To Delete the Statement and Replace It With a Message That Omits Jews
A House of Representatives candidate in Pennsylvania posted a heartfelt message on X about the shooting at Brown University and attack at a Hanukkah festival in Sydney, Australia, before deleting the post and replacing it with one that only mentioned Brow
News | News
Ms. Rachel's Crocodile Tears: Shocked by Antisemitism After Years of Fueling It
Ms. Rachel expresses shock over antisemitism despite her past support for Palestine.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Elder Of Ziyon - Dear Paul Simon: You Lent Your Name to a Killer's Cause (Judean Rose)
Paul Simon signed a letter supporting Marwan Barghouti’s release. This column explains Barghouti’s murders and why Simon’s stance is so troubling.
News | News
Jewish groups concerned after LA County records second most anti-Jewish hate crimes
The report found a decrease in anti-Jewish hate from 2023 to 2024, but the number of crimes targeting Israelis rose, and 80% of all religious-based hate crimes in the country targeted Jews in 2024.
Miscellaneous | Judaism
6 Ways Hanukkah 2025 Is Unique
1. We Light Twice on Sunday
The first and last nights of Chanukah are always on the same day of the week. This year, that lucky day will be Sunday, meaning we have two Sundays on which to hold Chanukah parties, public menorah lightings, and even car parades. Hooray!
Business & Finance | Business
A Personal Plea To The Jewish Community - Joshua Namm & Charles Haspel
Stop complaining about Jew hatred on social media. Do something about it instead!
News | Jewish Community
'We need to make them scared': NYC synagogue protest crosses new red lines
Demonstration outside Park East Synagogue marks an escalation by anti-Israel protesters in terms of target and rhetoric, underlining new normal for the city's Jews despite Gaza ceasefire
News | Articles By Me
What Just Happened? Serious Flaws In Trump's Peace Plan May Be Deadly - Joshua Namm
The Serious, And Potentially Deadly, Flaws Of Trump's Peace Plan
Politics | POLITICS
Vance Says Israel ‘Not Controlling’ Trump, Fails to Defend Judaism in Response to Antisemitic Comments at Event
A screenshot of a question-and-answer session at the University of Mississippi in Oxford on Oct. 29, 2025, in which US …
News | Articles By Me
Antisemitism: I Hate To Be A Downer, But... - Joshua Namm
When this is published, we will be a day away from the second anniversary of the attacks of October 7, 2023.
Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous
Our house is on fire, and the cavalry isn’t coming
The responsibility to protect our families and our future is going to fall on us.
News | Antisemitism
Newsom Suggests He'll Resign to Stop UCLA from Paying Antisemitism Fine
Newsom suggested he would resign before allowing UCLA to pay a fine to the federal government over antisemitism on campus.
News | News
52 Jewish kids kicked off plane in Spain for singing in Hebrew
Israel's minister for combating antisemitism called the incident in Valencia “one of the most serious … severe antisemitic incidents" to have occurred recently.
News | News
'Quite Shocking to Us': Local Parents Fighting 'Cesspool' of Anti-Semitism in Philly Schools Say Josh Shapiro's Office Stopped Meeting With Them
Philadelphia’s school system has become an “absolute cesspool” of anti-Semitism and anti-American hatred, according to parents
News | Jewish Community
How Anti-Zionism Became a Western Rite
A political movement rooted in ancient Jew-hatred is now a generational identity
News | Jewish Community
Nuremberg at Glastonbury - Melanie Phillips
The Starmer government's shock is fake. They've helped fuel this
News | Articles By Me
Moral Clarity: The Antisemitism Killer - Joshua Namm
The most effective way to advocate for good, is to possess the ability to recognize evil.
News | Jewish Community
A Chinese Convert’s Global Odyssey of Faith
How a Jewish woman’s whirlwind journey—through six countries, guided by her mother’s quiet strength—led her from rural China to Israel and Europe.
Visual Arts | Art & Design
Rescued Hamas hostage turning his pain into art with NYC exhibit: ‘By accident, I became a symbol of hope’
Russian-Israeli Andrei Kozlov is launching his first-ever solo art show in Chelsea with a moving collection that reflects his plight in captivity -- including physical and psychological torture.
News | Articles By Me
To My Fellow Jews: What Will It Take??? - Joshua Namm
After the events of this week, it should be clear to all of us that we can NOT continue like this.
Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism
OF COURSE: Check Out How the Left Is Reacting to Horrific DC Murder of Innocent Israeli Embassy Staffers
We shouldn't be surprised that the people who cheered the guy who shot and killed an innocent healthcare CEO are now cheering a monster who gunned down two innocent Israel Embassy staffers
News | News
Two Israeli embassy staffers shot dead outside Capital Jewish Museum in DC
Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, told ABC News that his organization hosted an event at the museum that evening.
Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism
Chicago mayor appoints local activist who tore down hostage posters to fiscal board
Brandon Johnson’s move, one in a pattern that has alienated Jewish constituents, is drawing fierce backlash from the city’s only Jewish alderman
Politics | Politics
Mark Levin gives Tucker Carlson a well-deserved dressing-down
A spat between two MAGA media personalities reflects the ideological split in the movement—and in the Trump administration.
News | News
Decades after his death, a Jewish WWII hero is honored in Italy, with family of comrade present
Operation Benjamin gave a proper memorial this week to three Jewish American servicemen who were originally buried under Latin crosses, replacing their tombstones with new ones shaped like Stars of David
News | JEWISH COMMUNITY
Antisemitism Skyrockets in 7 Countries With the Largest Jewish Populations
The seven largest Jewish communities outside Israel have reported record spikes in antisemitic activity in recent years, largely driven by a wave of anti-Jewish hatred in the aftermath of Hamas launching its war against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, according t
News | Jewish Community
The real lesson of the attack on Josh Shapiro
It’s not just the man suspected of setting fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s home who's lost his mind
News | Antisemitism
Arsonist Targeted Josh Shapiro's Home Over Governor's Support for Israel, Police Say
The suspect in the Sunday arson attack on Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro's (D.) residence said he set fire to the home because Shapiro is Jewish and supports Israel, according to a newly unsealed warrant.
News | Antisemitism
Why the antisemitism tsunami continues
Fighting this global evil requires Jews to get out in front.
News | NEWS
Harvard Announces Hiring Freeze as Trump Admin Threatens Funding Cuts Over Campus Anti-Semitism
Harvard University announced Monday that it is implementing a hiring freeze as the Trump administration threatens to withhold federal funding over the Ivy League school's response to anti-Semitic protests on campus.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
The news nobody wanted to hear came today
Mourning the loss of the Bibas babies and their mom
News | Articles By Me
Dating While Jewish: It’s Not Just Denmark That Is Rotten - Joshua Namm
The Continuing Rise of Casual Antisemitism
News | Israel/Jewish Community
Trump’s mandate: Defund and deport college antisemites
It is time to confront a corrupt, biased education establishment that is both undermining belief in America and enabling Jew-hatred.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Antisemitic Hate Crimes Reach Record High in LA County
Los Angeles County in California has experienced an all-time high number of hate crimes targeting the Jewish community, according to figures compiled by a local government agency and released last week. Issued by the LA County Commission on Human Relation
News | Articles By Me
What A (Jewish) Week - Joshua Namm
It Can't Be Good For All Of America, Unless It's Good For Us Too
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Pogrom in Amsterdam - Melanie Phillips
“Globalise the intifada” they’ve screamed for a year. This was the result
News | Articles By Me
The "Crime" Of Decent Journalism - Joshua Namm
Journalism Is Now A Social Crime. If It’s Pro-Jewish.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
'Pogrom' in Amsterdam: Netanyahu sends planes to save Jews, US congressmen demand action
The Israeli National Security Council told Israelis to remain in their hotel rooms, avoid wearing anything with Jewish or Israeli symbols and to return home early.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Jewish-owned businesses vandalized (again) in LA's Pico-Robertson area on Election Day
An investigation was underway in Los Angeles' Pico-Robertson neighborhood after several Jewish-owned businesses were vandalized.
Politics | 2024 Election
Leading Jewish-American Paper Endorses Donald Trump
The Jewish Press, the largest independent Jewish-American newspaper with a powerful voice among Orthodox communities, has officially endorsed Donald Trump for president.
News | Israel/Jewish Community
Thug Who Shot Orthodox Jew in Chicago Is Illegal Immigrant
As we reported a couple of days ago, the Chicago Tribune left a whole lot of information out of its headline about a hate crime against an Orthodox Jew:
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Pray for the Safety of Those in Hurricane Milton’s Path
Our thoughts and prayers are with those in the path of Hurricane Milton.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
As Hurricane Milton Looms, These Rabbis Are Staying Put
Over the past week, Rabbi Fishel Zaklos has been stocking up on food and drinks, as well as connecting with the many members of his Naples Jewish community in northern Florida. Technically, this is what he does every year in preparation for Yom Kippur at Chabad-Lubavitch of Naples, the Jewish center he runs together with his wife, Ettie. But this year is anything but typical.
News | Articles By Me
It’s Not The Politics: It’s The Antisemitism - Joshua Namm
Obsession with party over community MUST stop.
Recently, one of my articles was the target of some intensely negative feedback. The common thread through those reactions was basically “Most Jews are Democrats, so how dare you criticize Democratic Party?”
Miscellaneous | Israeli Opinion
Unhiding Jewish Pride on Columbia University’s Lawn
Jewish Culture Festival draws thousands of students and faculty members
News | Jewish Community
Oct. 7 Ignited These Two Jewish Women
Following that horrific day, Sara and Melisa upped their Jewish game… and pride.
Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism
Harris Campaign Turns Deaf Ear to Jewish Groups in Decision To Court Pro-Hamas Activist
Jewish groups condemned the Biden-Harris administration earlier this year for meeting with Michigan activist Osama Siblani, citing his record of anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas remarks. Those concerns appear to have fallen on deaf ears at Kamala Harris's campa
News | Articles By Me
Is this justice? Justice has been especially unjust for the Jews of America and Israel - Joshua Namm
One of the things that has become crystal clear since October 7, and the dramatic rise in antisemitism which followed, is that the “justice” system can be anything but just for the Jewish community. While there have been some successes, there are also recent examples which demonstrate just how perverse and unjust the legal system can be – both in Israel and America.
Miscellaneous | Judaism
What Is Hasidic Judaism?
Read on to explore the world of Hasidic Judaism. Learn about what it is, what Hasidim wear, and about many of their customs and traditions.
News | Israel/Jewish Community
Cashless Bail Strikes Again: Suspect in Violent DC Anti-Semitic Attack Was Previously Released After Fighting With Capitol Police
A Jewish man was targeted and attacked in Washington, D.C., by a suspect who less than a week earlier was released on cashless bail one day after fighting with Capitol Police, court and police documents show.
News | JEWISH COMMUNITY
50 Synagogues Receive Bomb Threats in One Week. When Is It Enough?
I spend a part of my mornings and a good chunk of my Saturdays running errands. It's something I look forward to. I enjoy the mundanity of checking the mail or picking up a box of nails or sprinkler parts.
Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism
'Al Jazeera on the Potomac': WaPo Reporter Taylor Lorenz Boosts Defenses of Los Angeles Synagogue Protest
Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz on Monday pushed a false claim that a Los Angeles synagogue was auctioning off Palestinian land this week—a conspiracy theory that led to violent, anti-Semitic protests outside the Jewish house of worship on Sunday.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Never Again. Jews Are Done Cowering in the Face of Violent Bullies
Imagine if the KKK went into South Central Los Angeles and tried to block parishioners from going into the First A.M.E. Church and then got violent.
News | JEWISH COMMUNITY
‘This Is Jew-Hatred’: Israel Spox Denounces L.A. Antisemites
An Israeli government spokesman has labeled violent anti-Israel, pro-Hamas demonstrations in Los Angeles as “absolutely shocking.” Indeed, at least one protester called for genocidal war against Israelis.
History | History
The Youngest Holocaust Survivor
Erika Nissanoff was born on October 17, 1944 in a Nazi hospital in Austria. Her miraculous birth and survival is a harrowing story that everyone should hear.
News | Jewish Community
Believe all women ... except for Israeli Oct. 7 survivors
In their June 7 article in The Times, Catherine Philp and Gabrielle Weiniger chose to whitewash horrific crimes committed against innocent women, effectively further dehumanizing them.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
The Jewish People, And Their Supporters, Who Are Fighting Back - Melanie Phillips
Examples of courage, decency and sanity at a time of madness
News | Israel/Jewish Community
Pakistani Tries to Run Over Jewish Students in NYC: 'Gonna Kill All the Jews!'
A Pakistani migrant is now accused of attempting to murder a group of Orthodox Jewish students outside of a Brooklyn school this week.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
The Jewish Story of the UNC Frat Boys Who Held up the American Flag
Images of a small group of students at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill holding up an American flag amid violent anti-Israel protests last week captured the attention of the nation. The boys were caught on camera struggling to keep the Stars and Stripes from falling onto the ground after the protesters sought to replace it with a Palestinian flag.
News | Articles By Me
We Deserve Better. Much better. - Joshua Namm
The post 10/7 Jewish world cannot be business as usual.
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Principal Lied To Punish Jewish Teacher Who Reported Muslim Student For Praising Hitler
A Maryland school system knowingly used false information to discipline a Jewish teacher in response to her reporting to her principal that at a pro-Palestinian walkout — which the principal called “fantastic” — students praised Adolph Hitler and called for the death of Jews.
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‘We Should Salute Them’: Hezbollah Leader Expresses Gratitude for American Anti-Israel Activists
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday praised Americans who are putting pressure on US President Joe Biden to limit support for Israel because they are helping the Lebanese terrorist group's cause. "Today, what many people demonstrating in Americ
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The west’s abandonment of the Jews - Melanie Phillips
With every day that passes, it becomes ever clearer that western civilisation is no longer civilised.
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Trump Beating Biden By 9 Points Among New York Jewish Voters
Biden has grown increasingly hostile toward Israel's efforts to use force to defend itself and unwilling to combat antisemitism on his side.
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Fighting Antisemitism at Berkeley
Ilana Pearlman’s black Jewish son thought he was safe. He wasn’t.
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'Middle Eastern' man murders Jewish dentist — but police insist suspect is just a 'disgruntled ... customer'
A young Jewish dentist in California was gunned down in cold blood, and a "Middle Eastern" man stands accused of the crime. However, police caution that the shooting was likely not "racially or politically motivated."Just after 4 p.m. last Thursday, polic
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From Seinfeld to Ben-Gvir, Antisemites Attack Jews | The Caroline Glick Show In-Focus
Jewish businesses or anybody who supports Israel in any way are being attacked across the world by far-left and Islamist mobs. Is this causing an awakening a...
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Are American Jews Prepared for the Return of History?
Probably the most famous line from the HBO series True Detective is: “Time is a flat circle.” The line, spoken by Det. Rust Cohle (played by Matthew McConaughey) in the
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Chair of Harvard University History Department Belongs to Group Behind Grotesque Anti-Semitic Cartoon
The chairman of Harvard University's history department is a member of a faculty group, Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, that posted an anti-Semitic cartoon over the holiday weekend depicting a hand emblazoned with the Star of David hol
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How Do You Observe Judaism In Outer Space?
When to pray? When is Shabbat? What to do when time and space are not what they are on earth?
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Son’s request for Star of David necklace a ‘changing moment’ for congressional candidate Mazi Pilip
The Israeli-American has a strong showing in the polls in a congressional special election for the seat formerly held by George Santos.
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Harvard Students Captured on Film Accosting Israeli Classmate Remain in Good Standing With School, Lawsuit Alleges
The Harvard University graduate students who were caught on film accosting and shoving a Jewish classmate during an anti-Israel "die-in" protest remain in good standing with the school, with one of the assailants avoiding discipline altogether, according
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Rabbi Accuses Utah Jazz of Making Him Put Down 'I'm a Jew And I'm Proud' Sign After Kyrie Irving Complaint
A rabbi claims that the Utah Jazz told him to put down his sign after Dallas Mavericks star Kyrie Irving complained about it to stadium staff.
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'We know they were raped in Hamas captivity': Chilling details of what hostages faced
Doctors who have been treating released hostages confirmed some suffered violent sexual assaults while they were held captive in Gaza.
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‘He’s an American, You Idiots!’ Social Media Erupts After Protest of Jerry Seinfeld Show Over His Israel Support - 'He's
Social media users called a large pro-Palestinian protest outside Jerry Seinfeld's stand-up comedy show in downtown Syracuse, New York, "misguided" and said that targeting him for being an American Jew who supports Israel was antisemitic. Hundreds of acti
