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A red swastika painted on a synagogue's pro-Israel sign

Officials condemn antisemitic and anti-Israel vandalism at 2 Philadelphia-area synagogues

A swastika and “From the river to the sea” were spray-painted onto two Conservative congregations in the area in recent weeks.

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What I told my children when our synagogue was graffitied with a swastika

“This is the complicated, real truth of what it means to be Jewish in America right now,” writes a mother and rabbi’s wife from suburban Philadelphia.

David Weiner, admissions director and enrollment manager at Kehillah Jewish High School in Palo Alto, California, atop the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai, on a visit to recruit Chinese students in March 2024. (Courtesy)

A Jewish high school in Palo Alto is looking to China for new recruits

“China has been, for years, a robust market for foreign students,” a school official said.

Michigan congressman says he wasn’t advising nuclear war after telling Israel to approach Gaza ‘like Nagasaki and Hiroshima’

What these Jewish teens say they are not seeing on screen: themselves

Sen. Jeff Merkley invokes Easter to condemn ‘Netanyahu’s indiscriminate bombing of Gaza,’ drawing condemnation

Al Gore speaks at Sen. Joe Lieberman's funeral in Stamford, Connecticut, March 29, 2024. (Luke Tress)

Al Gore, hundreds of mourners hail ‘supreme mensch’ Joe Lieberman at pioneering Jewish politician’s funeral

House Democratic leaders endorse Israel critic Jamaal Bowman, days after Jewish Dems’ group backs his challenger

Some Jewish summer camps are facing pressure to rethink — or even fully scrap — their Israel activities

On the first anniversary of Evan Gershkovich’s arrest, Biden says his detention will ‘cost’ Russia

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