3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (330+ words) As fighting continues in Gaza and Lebanon, a record proportion of U.S. voters say their sympathies lie more with the Palestinians than Israelis, according to a poll released Thursday. In the Quinnipiac University poll, 38% of voters said they were more sympathetic…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (300+ words) Israeli President Isaac Herzog called on Jews around the world to enter the new year with pride, a commitment to action and respect for one another in a Rosh Hashanah message released on Thursday. “The defining sound of Rosh Hashanah…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (268+ words) Three incidents of antisemitic vandalism occurred over the previous weekend in Ventura, Calif., police said on Thursday. The vandalism, which included Nazi swastikas and other hateful images, occurred at Temple Beth Torah, a Reform synagogue, as well as Higher Vision…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (527+ words) Shortly after attending the 25th anniversary commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, Julie Menin, the New York City Council’s first Jewish speaker, released a video message to Jewish New Yorkers ahead of Rosh Hashanah, which begins…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (468+ words) Stuart Zimmer, a Jewish billionaire investor, agreed in June to resume funding a $100 million gift to Harvard University that he had paused after Oct. 7, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Zimmer and his wife, Jennifer Zimmer, pledged the gift…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (344+ words) The U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday that it used the Alien Terrorist Removal Court to secure a deportation order against an Afghan national who helped plot a thwarted mass-casualty attack on Election Day in 2024. The case was the first-ever…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (320+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump commemorated the 9/11 victims at the Pentagon on Friday, the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks. “With the events of that morning, 2,977 beautiful souls were ripped from our world, and many more died in the weeks and years after....

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (267+ words) A federal judge temporarily barred Montgomery County, Md., from enforcing its handgun restrictions against the Silver Spring Jewish Center on Thursday, just in time for Rosh Hashanah. “I’m very pleased that the judge has granted our preliminary injunction, especially on the…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (942+ words) Larry Montes, 46, looked “subdued” when he pleaded not guilty in court to disrupting Shabbat services at Central Synagogue, a Reform congregation in Midtown, attacking two people and damaging religious property on Aug. 14, Serena Smulansky told JNS. Smulansky, who is part…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (340+ words) JNS.org “The pain of the last several years of targeted antisemitic harassment will now give way to meaningful, district-wide changes,” stated James Pasch, of the Anti-Defamation League The Anti-Defamation League said on Wednesday that it reached a…...