BY MARCY OSTER NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who was among the first to raise flags about President Donald Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to investigate a political rival, embarked on his retirement by comparing the U.S. of today with the communist regime in Ukraine that his family fled four decades ago. “At no point in my […]

By JACKSON RICHMAN (JNS) – The re-election campaign of Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) has removed a digital advertisement featuring a picture of his Jewish Democratic opponent, Jon Ossoff, with an enlarged nose “even as other parts of his face stayed the same size and proportions,” according to The Forward, which first reported the ad on Monday, July 27. The black-and-white ad solicits donations […]

By BEN SALES NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – In June, as protests against aggressive and abusive policing in the United States took hold, so did a false accusation about a group of programs that sends American police chiefs to learn from their counterparts in Israel. Anti- Semitic Lies “The tactics used by the police in America, kneeling on George Floyd’s […]

DC Report By Douglas Bloomfield As the late Democratic congressman, John Lewis, known as the conscience of the House of Representatives, crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, Ala., on his way lying in state in the U.S. Capitol, one of his colleagues across the aisle was cementing his own very different reputation: the stupidest member of Congress. There’s a […]

By JACKSON RICHMAN (JNS) – Israel and the Jewish people are always looking for friends, and they seemed to have found one in Holly Huffnagle. A Christian now employed to help tackle anti-Semitism in the United States, she has more than one thing in common with the Jewish and pro-Israel community of late. On July 12, Huffnagle was targeted by […]

By DAN PINE (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) – Aaron Keyak started out in Democratic Party politics as a kid, stuffing envelopes for campaigns in his native San Francisco. He clearly found his niche early. Keyak, 35, has been named Jewish engagement director for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. His mission: devise strategies to reach Jewish American […]

By SHIRA HANAU NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – Mort Klein didn’t know much about Ice Cube when he got on the phone with him on Monday afternoon, July 27, but by the end of their two-hour conversation, Klein said he was convinced the rapper was not anti-Semitic. New Friends? In fact, the president of the right-wing Zionist Organization of America […]

(JNS) – Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, the former leader of Chabad of Poway in Southern California, was among several defendants who pled guilty in federal court on Tuesday, July 14, to charges of fraud related to a multimillion-dollar tax-evasion scheme that lasted at least eight years. The charges were brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of California following a […]

By TOBY TABACHNICK (Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via JTA) – Just two days after Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson posted an anti-Semitic message he attributed to Adolf Hitler on social media, Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle Zach Banner came to the defense of the Jewish community. In a series of tweets and videos, which he said he hoped would help educate […]

By RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) – When John Lewis, the civil rights icon and congressman from Georgia, died at 80 on July 17, Jews in America and abroad lost an ally of nearly six decades. Lewis never tired of telling folks to “get into good trouble,” to defy the authorities and the conventional wisdom. It was a creed that guided […]