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JTA – As 127 newly elected Argentine legislators took the oath of office in Buenos Aires last week, several departed from the standard formula to pledge allegiance to a “free...
JTA – New York City Mayor Eric Adams threw down a gauntlet for his successor last week, issuing an executive order barring city officials from taking...
JTA – After parting ways with the first architect hired to carry out his vision for the White House’s East Wing, President Donald Trump has picked...
JTA – Susan Blumberg-Kason, a Jewish author whose work explores Jewish history and identity, was deep into a book about Golda Meir’s Milwaukee childhood when her...
JTA – The leader of a Lithuanian party in the ruling coalition government was convicted on Thursday, 4 December, for inciting hatred towards Jews and grossly minimising...
JTA – Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, and Slovenia’s public broadcasters said they would boycott this year’s Eurovision Song Contest after a meeting on Thursday, 4 December, of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) confirmed Israel’s...
JTA – Israel has identified the remains handed over on Wednesday, 3 December, by Hamas as belonging to Sudthisak Rinthalak, a Thai agricultural worker murdered on 7 October 2023. Rinthalak had been working in Israel for years,...
JTA – United States Vice-President JD Vance said on Thursday, 4 December, that he didn’t believe antisemitism was surging inside the Republican Party, pushing back on prominent conservatives...
JTA – The mayor of Los Angeles has denounced as “abhorrent” and antisemitic a protest that disrupted an event held on Wednesday, 3 December, on the...
JTA –A New York City public school principal turned down a parent’s request to host a talk by Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann, citing content in his presentation...
JTA – Manischewitz is thinking outside the box – literally. The iconic Jewish food company has it all figured out when it comes to things like making matzah...
JTA – More than 300 Jewish leaders, including women’s rights advocates and rabbis, urged the United Nations on Tuesday, 2 December, to remove Reem Alsalem, the...
JTA – Nick Fuentes says he feels snubbed by the controversial activist group StopAntisemitism, which neglected to include him among its finalists for “Antisemite of the...
JTA – A proposal to rename a Dublin park that honours one of Ireland’s most famous Jewish emigres has been tabled following criticism from the Israeli...
JTA – More than two-thirds of American Jews believe that New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will make the city’s Jews less safe, according to a...
JTA – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is formally seeking a pre-emptive pardon of the criminal charges he has long faced, saying in a video address that ending...
JTA – Following a visit in Turkey last week, Pope Leo XIV said that he had spoken with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about their shared support for...
JTA – On Thanksgiving morning on 27 November, as volunteers gathered at Congregation Shearith Israel for the synagogue’s 11th annual “packathon”, they also marked a new milestone: Their synagogue was opening...
JTA – The families of victims of Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on Israel filed a lawsuit against the cryptocurrency fund Binance and its chief executive,...
JTA – Progressive Jewish author Peter Beinart drew a volley of criticism on Tuesday, 25 November, from the boycott Israel movement as well as a right-wing Israeli...
JTA – In the safe confines of a gathering of Jewish fundraising and communal professionals, Sarah Hurwitz’s remarks about antisemitism and Holocaust education earned polite applause....
JTA – Every day, it can seem, brings a fresh headline about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots are spreading hateful ideas. But researchers tasked with understanding antisemitism and...
JTA – Days after pro-Palestinian protesters shouted chants including “Globalise the intifada” and “Death to the IDF” outside an Upper East Side synagogue, New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica...
JTA – The organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest have revised this year’s voting rules after broadcasters from several countries accused Israel of interfering in last...
JTA – United States President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani covered a lot of ground in their highly anticipated meeting at the White House on Friday, 21 November, discussing...
JTA – The new United States ambassador to Poland, Thomas Rose, has ignited debate after delivering a speech in Warsaw calling the idea of Polish complicity...
JTA – The Coast Guard, a branch of the United States armed forces, says it will continue to bar the display of swastikas and nooses after drawing...
JTA – Germany’s antisemitism czar has urged a law to ban pro-Palestinian slogans such as “From the river to the sea”, renewing a fraught debate over the...
JTA – Mexico’s Jewish community has condemned antisemitic graffiti apparently directed toward the country’s Jewish president during an anti-government protest on Saturday, 15 November. The graffiti painted on...
JTA – An auction house in Germany cancelled the sale of hundreds of items that belonged to Holocaust victims a day before it was set to...
JTA – A federal judge has indefinitely barred the Trump administration from levelling a fine in excess of $1 billion (R17 billion) against the University of California (UC)...
JTA – On a frigid winter’s day in 1906, tens of thousands of Jewish parents in New York’s Lower East Side and Brooklyn kept their children...
JTA – United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio said violence in the West Bank, which is surging, could undercut the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, which...
JTA – Adolf Hitler had a sexual disorder that made it more likely for him to have a micro-penis, according to the first-ever analysis of his...
JTA – In the most intensely covered mayoral election in generations, the well-being of Jewish New Yorkers became a major flashpoint. And yet, no candidate took...
JTA – President Donald Trump has made official a suggestion that he first issued on the floor of Israel’s parliament: that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should...
JTA – The head of BBC and its top news executive have quit amid allegations that the network misled viewers in coverage of President Donald Trump...
JTA – A Jewish Iranian-American man has been sentenced to prison in Iran for travelling to Israel 13 years ago for his son’s Barmitzvah, his family...
JTA – Just hours after New York City’s mayor election was called for Zohran Mamdani, a top Israeli official issued an invitation. “New York will never...
JTA – Last year, Amsterdam’s Royal Concert Hall held its 10th anniversary of a Chanukah concert series that was rebooted 70 years after it was halted...