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Yechiel Leiter speaks at the Family Leadership Summit, a gathering of Christian conservatives in Des Moines, Iowa, in July 2024. (Screenshot)

Yechiel Leiter, American-Israeli former settler leader who lost a son in Gaza, to serve as next Israeli ambassador to US

Netanyahu calls the West Bank resident a “highly capable diplomat.”

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A Jewish couple created a disco-ball menorah to mark this year’s Hanukkah-New Year’s overlap

The Happy Jew Year adds to the tradition of calendar-quirk menorahs started by the Menurkey.

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Daniel Lurie, Jewish political neophyte and heir to Levi Strauss fortune, wins San Francisco mayoral race

A philanthropist, Lurie bested incumbent London Breed.

Zevi Samet, Riley Weiss, Danny Wolf, Blake Peters and Yarden Garzon

Sports

20 Jewish men’s and women’s college basketball players to watch in 2024-25

Global

Israeli soccer fans injured in Amsterdam mob violence that authorities denounce as antisemitic

HIAS Greece translator Jalal Barezkai, right, assisting a Syrian refugee in an encampment near the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesvos, Greece on May 9, 2018. (Bill Swersey/HIAS)

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‘Deja vu all over again’: HIAS stares down 4 more years under Trump, a president hostile to the immigrants it aids

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Israel

Man carrying weapons and protest manifesto against Gaza war tried to enter U.S. Capitol on Election Day

Police separate Israel supporters and pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Times Square, New York City, October 13, 2023. (Luke Tress)

New York

Antisemitic hate crimes in NYC decrease compared to post-Oct. 7, but Jews still targeted more than any group

Politics

Could Donald Trump’s win end the war in Gaza and bring the hostages home?

Smoked salmon at David Teyf's restaurant

New York

At last, a new restaurant opens at the Jewish Museum in the space vacated by Russ & Daughters

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