United States

Vermont state senator whose grandfather died in Holocaust wins congressional primary

Becca Balint is president pro tempore of Vermont’s senate. Her grandfather was killed during a forced march from the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1945.

Ilhan Omar, one of Israel’s fiercest critics in Congress, ekes out primary victory in Minnesota

Unlike in 2020, national pro-Israel funders had skipped the race, despite AIPAC’s creation of a super PAC this year.

Boston’s Jews are getting a ‘Jewish tavern’ to study religious text — and drink beer

This Jewish tavern from the co-creators of Sefaria and PocketTorah aims to revolutionize Jewish communal spaces, in the spirit of the Frankfurt Lehrhaus of the 1920s.