The Challenge for American Jews

For Jews in the United States, progressive alliances are weakening, political identities are shifting, and emotional ties to ...
Religion News Service

The gift that Jews can give Pope Leo XIV

(RNS) — Habemus papam! We have a pope! By “we,” I do not only mean the Roman Catholic Church. For the first time, “we” includes the United States of America, as Pope Leo XIV is the first American pope ...
New York Daily News

Hatred’s global war against all Jews everywhere

One terrifying assault after another on Jews. “Not terrorism,” the authorities reassure us; rather “targeted attacks on the Jewish community.” To a Jew, this is hardly reassuring. For American Jews ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Elderly Jews Were Among the Most Likely to Die in the Holocaust. Why Has History Forgotten About the Genocide’s Oldest Victims?

A new exhibition at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library spotlights the unique challenges faced by European Jews who were over the age of 55 during World War II Meilan Solly | Senior Associate Digital ...
The Forward

For Finland’s tiny Jewish community, a complicated history of fighting for the czar and the Nazis

Many of the 1,500 Jews who live in Finland today can trace their roots back to the Russian military, which brought them here as conscripts. Beginning in the 1850’s, Jews, who now constitute a tiny ...
Religion News Service

‘I couldn't go to anybody's rally’: Since Oct. 7, some Black Jews struggle to find belonging

(RNS) — A report on Black Jews’ feelings and experiences post-Oct. 7, 2023, suggests many have felt increasingly marginalized in their Jewish communities and tokenized outside of them. (RNS) — After ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Many Hungarian Jews credit Viktor Orban for keeping them safe. That doesn’t mean they’re voting for him.

BUDAPEST, Hungary — As Hungarians go to the polls in their most consequential parliamentary elections since the fall of communism 35 years ago, Ferenc Olti is torn. Like most of the estimated 100,000 ...
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We know the reasons for violence against Jews — but refuse to say them aloud

Jews celebrating Hanukkah were just slaughtered by Muslim gunmen on an Australian beach, in an imitation of the Oct. 7 massacres. An inert Europe is canceling Christmas celebrations out of fear of ...
The New York Times

A Worldwide ‘Jew Hunt’

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Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Jews mobilized for Darfur 20 years ago. As violence surges again, where are they now?

The Jewish forces behind the Save Darfur Coalition say Gaza has changed the activism picture. They spoke of genocide and “Never Again.” They pushed to divest from entities that supported the offending ...
The Conversation

Jews were barred from Spain’s New World colonies − but that didn’t stop Jewish and converso writers from describing the Americas

Every few years, a story about Columbus resurfaces: Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition? This tale became ...
The Forward

Most American Jews aren’t ‘Zionist’ — so what are they?

Antisemitism Decoded is the Forward’s biweekly newsletter that helps you separate the signal from the noise and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. For ...