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Howard Kohr, longtime AIPAC director, announces retirement

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UC Santa Barbara, where Jewish student president was accused of supporting ‘genocide,’ is subject of new Title VI investigation

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Jewish Life Stories: Harry Belafonte’s Jewish wife, and the man who repaired Holocaust violins

Howard Kohr, longtime AIPAC director, announces retirement

New York Jets star Sauce Gardner says his ‘intentions were positive’ when he said that Jews ‘run the world’

UC Santa Barbara, where Jewish student president was accused of supporting ‘genocide,’ is subject of new Title VI investigation

Modi, a comedian popular with Orthodox crowds, has a new special. He wants non-Jews to watch, too.

What’s behind Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ‘firm’ support for Hamas?

UK authorities investigating alleged mistreatment of Israeli Oct. 7 survivors by airport security

Ben Shapiro’s split with Candace Owens reflects how Israel and antisemitism are also dividing the right

The Borscht Belt is burning: In the Catskills, abandoned resorts keep catching fire

Steven Spielberg decries ‘machinery of extremism’ on campus and laments Israel-Hamas war deaths at USC ceremony honoring Holocaust survivors

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