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‘The world can see that we are together’

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Hannah Kaplan, a senior at Tiffin University in northern Ohio, can identify exactly one other Jew in the school’s student body of approximately 3,000. There are also a … more

Ben Sales, Jackie Hajdenberg | 11/14/23

How Tuesday’s rally in DC is trying to pitch a broad pro-Israel tent

WASHINGTON (JTA) — When it sends a contingent to the mass pro-Israel rally in Washington, D.C. next week, Americans for Peace Now will be standing alongside a group led by someone it accused of … more

Ron Kampeas | 11/10/23

National Jewish groups put out the call for a massive ‘March for Israel’ in DC on Nov. 14

WASHINGTON (JTA) — National Jewish organizations are calling on Jews from around the country to travel to Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14 for a mass pro-Israel rally they hope will rival major Jewish demonstrations in 2002 … more

Ron Kampeas | 11/7/23

Indiana woman attacks Black Hebrew Israelite building

(JTA) — She thought she was attacking an “Israel school” on behalf of “her people back in Palestine.” Instead an Indiana woman backed her car into a building being used … more

Andrew Lapin | 11/6/23

UMass student arrested for punching Jewish student at Hillel vigil

(JTA) – A student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was arrested by university police Friday after punching a Jewish student and spitting on an Israeli flag during a vigil for … more

Andrew Lapin | 11/6/23

Protesters disrupt Blinken as he asks Senate for emergency wartime funding for Israel

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Dozens of protesters shouting “Ceasefire now!” repeatedly disrupted a Senate hearing where top Biden Administration officials were seeking emergency wartime … more

Ron Kampeas | 10/31/23

PROVIDENCE, RI—Tuesday, October 24, 2023—Pro Israel Rally at the State House. Howard Brown introducing Sam Foer, right. Glenn Osmundson/Jewish Rhode Island

Dozens gather for pro-Israel rally at Statehouse

PROVIDENCE – Demonstrators stretched a long banner across the Rhode Island Statehouse steps on the evening of Oct. 24, which said in giant block letters: STOP ANTISEMITISM. Many of the … more

JEWISH RHODE ISLAND STAFF | 10/26/23

No hate crime in Detroit synagogue president murder

(JTA) — Police in Detroit said Sunday that they had found no indication of a hate crime in their investigation of the murder of Samantha Woll, a prominent and beloved local Jewish leader found … more

Philissa Cramer | 10/23/23

More than half of House Democrats endorse Biden’s backing of Israel

WASHINGTON (JTA) — More than half of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to President Joe Biden endorsing his policy of backing Israel in its war against Hamas, … more

Ron Kampeas | 10/23/23

Yeshiva University students launch ‘Day of Loving-Kindness’

(New York Jewish Week) — Yeshiva University’s campuses have been somber since the devastating Hamas attack on Israel earlier this month, and Jewish communities worldwide were left anxious … more

Luke Tress | 10/20/23