Politics

As Netanyahu pushes US to join fight against Iran, Biden tells Jewish leaders US ‘fully’ backs Israel’s right to defend itself

The call came as Israel’s government seems more determined than ever to take the widening conflict directly to Iran, and hopes to persuade allies to join the fight.

Activists camp out for divestment on a campus

Brown University rejects pro-Palestinian protesters’ demand to divest from Israel

“Baruch Hashem,” Rabbi Josh Bolton of Brown/RISD Hillel said after the vote.

Voting stickers at a polling station in Green Bay, Wisconsin, April 2, 2024. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Democratic poll shows 71% of Jewish voters across 7 swing states favor Kamala Harris

A poll of Jewish voters in seven swing states is consistent with a recent national poll of Jewish voters.

Columbia pro-Palestinian group endorses violence and walks back apology for student who said ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, places a rock on the gravestone of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson as Ben Shapiro watches at Ohel Chabad Lubavitch on October 7, 2024 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Trump visits Queens gravesite of Chabad rabbi to mark Oct. 7

Hostage father Jonathan Dekel-Chen lambastes Netanyahu at American Jewish Committee Oct. 7 event

Biden lights Oct. 7 yahrzeit candle as Kamala Harris vows to see Hamas threat ‘eliminated’

Jewish officials handling hurricane response face antisemitic harassment

Tim Walz, JD Vance stand by Israel in VP debate but spar over Trump’s ability to contain Iran

US announces sanctions on Israel’s Hilltop Youth movement over West Bank violence

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