American Jewry

Netanyahu’s government is alienating Israel’s lifeline in Washington - opinion

Netanyahu’s policies are alienating American Jews, threatening Israel’s key support in Washington and risking its diplomatic future.

 Activists march down Pearl Street during the 30th annual Boulder Jewish Festival, a week after an attack that injured multiple people in Boulder, Colorado, U.S. June 8, 2025.
People protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza in front of the US Mission to the United Nations during a Security Council meeting in New York City, August 5, 2025; illustrative.

US divided on Gaza genocide accusations, Hamas responsibility, poll finds

Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks is awarded the 2025 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Jewish author Geraldine Brooks awarded Library of Congress fiction award

A billboard in New York City’s Times Square displaying a video released earlier this month by Hamas of one of its Israeli hostages, Evyatar David.

Jew vs. Jew rhetoric breaks hearts in bitter internal debate on Gaza war


Your Taxes: How the One Big Beautiful Bill impacts Americans in Israel

For Americans living in Israel, how will President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) affect your tax situation?

 The Big Beautiful Bill Is Triggering a Gold & Silver Boom

UJA-Federation pledges $1m for Gaza aid, citing ‘the Jewish imperative’ to act

UJA CEO Eric Goldstein condemned Hamas for holding hostages, obstructing aid and provoking the conflict, but said that the Jewish community is nevertheless compelled to help alleviate the suffering.

Displaced Palestinians carry food parcels as they raid trucks carrying humanitarian aid in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on August 9, 2025.

Netanyahu is causing Israel to lose the US, including members of the Jewish community - opinion

On US campuses, where the socio-political arena shapes the next generation, young Jews find themselves torn.

A RALLY in support of Palestinians takes place at Columbia University, in New York City in 2024.

'Death to the IDF': American IDF soldier's family home in St. Louis vandalized, cars torched

“I am outraged. Antisemitic violence has no place in America, not in St. Louis and not anywhere,” Terrell commented. 

Graffiti spraypainted at home of American IDF serviceman, St. Louis, Missouri, August 6, 2025.

Jews remain most targeted religious group in the US, FBI report finds

California saw the highest number of hate crimes, followed by New Jersey and then New York.

A community gathering at the site of an attack against a group people holding a vigil for kidnapped Israeli citizens in Gaza oin Boulder, Colorado on June 4, 2025; illustrative.

Iran hiring criminal networks in Europe to attack Jews, US religious freedom report finds

According to the report, Iranian authorities have actively recruited gangs throughout Europe "to carry out attacks on Israeli embassies and Jewish sites."

 An anti-Israel, pro-Palestine mural seen in Bilbao, Spain, June 4, 2025

Half of 'very liberal' US Jews believe Israel is comitting genocide, JPPI survey finds

Experts say that the numbers show that Israel is failing to justify its actions in Gaza to its strong support base of American Jews.

 A PRO-PALESTINIAN Jewish protester participates in a demonstration calling for the release of Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, in New York City last week. Psychologists might unpack how Jews produce so many un-Jews, says the writer.

The subject was Gaza, but Stewart and Beinart had a whole lot to say about Judaism - opinion

Stewart has always been an avatar for a certain kind of highly assimilated, secular Jew who makes his Jewish identity a prominent part of his public persona.

Journalist Peter Beinart and host Jon Stewart discuss the war in Gaza on "The Daily Show," July 28, 2025.

Jewish groups decline meeting with French official after ‘premature Palestinian state recognition’

The move makes France the largest Western country to offer recognition, which 140 other countries have already extended, but Israel and the United States oppose.

 French President Emmanuel Macron speaks in front of humanitarian aid destined for Gaza, at the Egyptian Red Crescent warehouse in Arish, Egypt, in April 2025.

'If New York falls, the country follows': Is the future of American Jewry at risk? - interview

ANTISEMITISM AFFAIRS: US Jewry is facing the greatest threat since the McCarthy era, with America at an inflection point.

‘IF MAMDANI wins, there will be an exodus of Jews from New York City,’ according to political strategist and consultant Rabbi Dr. Hank Sheinkopf. Here, Mamdani speaks during a press conference celebrating his primary victory with leaders and members of the city’s labor unions earlier this month.

The largest Reconstructionist synagogue is set to cut ties with denomination over Israel tensions

The clergy and lay leaders of Kehillat Israel, an affluent congregation located in Pacific Palisades, California, notified members of the plan to disaffiliate by email on Monday. 

Kehillat Israel Reconstructionist Congregation in Pacific Palisades, California, as it appeared in May 2024.