The Challenge for American Jews

For Jews in the United States, progressive alliances are weakening, political identities are shifting, and emotional ties to ...
The Forward

Are Jewish horns having a comeback? The history behind the antisemitic stereotype

When Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Congress this past July, protesters marched through the streets carrying a giant effigy of the Israeli prime minister, horns arcing from his forehead. Horns, at least ...
The New York Times

Trump Says That if He Loses, ‘the Jewish People Would Have a Lot to Do’ With It

Speaking at a campaign event denouncing antisemitism in America, Donald Trump again attacked Jews who vote for Democrats, saying that the party had a “hold, or curse, on you.” By Chris Cameron and ...
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 ...
Religion News Service

Liberal Jews are reclaiming their Zionism

(RNS) — What does a Jewish text message usually say? “Start worrying … details to follow.” That is the way it has been lately. So, Jews — and in this particular case, Reform Jews — are overdue for ...
TownhallOpinion

OK, So Why Do Jews Keep Voting For People Who Hate Them?

Why do very large percentages of Jews still vote for Democrat candidates? This is the number one question in comments related ...
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 ...
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 ...
Time

The Rise of Antisemitism in the U.K.

People attend a rally organized by Campaign Against Antisemitism opposite Downing Street in central London on April 30, 2026. Britain raised its national terrorism threat level to "severe" from ...
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 ...
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 ...