Politics

‘I’m gutted,’ Doug Emhoff says about murdered hostages at Washington synagogue vigil

The Second Gentleman’s message in a campaign season was that he shares the pain of his fellow American Jews and that they have a voice at the uppermost echelons of American government.

US Justice Department files criminal charges against Hamas, spurred by Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s murder

The charges name Yahya Sinwar, the group’s leader who is thought to remain in Gaza, directly.

Biden says Netanyahu is not doing enough to release the hostages

Biden also held a meeting with the team negotiating a ceasefire deal.

Israel is reeling from an unbearable tragedy. But does it change anything?

Netanyahu apologizes for the first time to a hostage family, blames Hamas for captives’ deaths

Man arrested after allegedly attacking Jewish students at University of Pittsburgh

Bodies of 6 hostages recovered in Gaza, Israeli army says; hostage families vow mass protest

What Kamala Harris said about Israel and the war in Gaza in her CNN interview with Tim Walz

Randi Weingarten, teachers union boss, calls JD Vance ‘gross’ for saying she ‘doesn’t have a single child’

US government spends record $454 million to secure religious institutions amid rising antisemitism

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