Politics

Nearly 80 bipartisan lawmakers call on Trump administration to unfreeze security funding for religious institutions

A bipartisan group of lawmakers signed a letter calling on the Trump administration to unfreeze nonprofit security funding that protects Jewish communities.

By Grace Gilson March 21, 2025 3:27 pm

Holocaust remembrance pages — and one about Bea Arthur — removed in Pentagon’s DEI purge

Stories of Holocaust survivors were caught in the anti-DEI net, as was an article about Jewish “Golden Girls” star Bea Arthur.

March 20, 2025 12:30 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gifts a silver-plated beeper to Sen. John Fetterman on March 19, 2025. (Screenshot)

Benjamin Netanyahu gives silver-plated beeper to John Fetterman, who praised Lebanon pager operation

“It’s nothing, but it changes history,” the Israeli prime minister told the Democratic senator.

March 19, 2025 5:24 pm

NYC’s Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum has a plan to protest Trump 2.0

By Andrew Silow-Carroll March 19, 2025 4:00 pm

Before Nita Lowey died, Donald Trump eviscerated the $250M Middle East peace fund named for her

By Deborah Danan March 18, 2025 6:06 pm

These NY Jews on the left and right agree: They’re fed up with Chuck Schumer

By Jackie Hajdenberg March 18, 2025 9:09 am

US Justice Department announces ‘JTF 10-7,’ a task force dedicated to prosecuting Oct. 7 terrorists

By Philissa Cramer March 17, 2025 6:48 pm

Chuck Schumer: After Oct. 7, US Jews thought, ‘Maybe it could happen here’

By Ben Sales March 17, 2025 7:59 am

Nita Lowey, longtime Jewish congresswoman and Middle East peace advocate, dies at 87

By Philissa Cramer and Ron Kampeas March 16, 2025 6:25 pm

A Jewish guide to the 2025 NYC mayoral candidates

By Joseph Strauss March 12, 2025 6:07 pm

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