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Rabbi Abraham Cooper, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, during a visit to Tokyo in 2023. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/Gamma-Rapho/Getty)

Saudi Arabia bans kippah; US official, a rabbi, leaves

A US government delegation tasked with monitoring religious freedom around the world cut a visit to Saudi Arabia short after Saudi officials demanded that a prominent...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pictured in February. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Biden & Bibi: Appeals in vain?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu downplayed differences between him and President Joe Biden on Monday, saying they “agree” on the goals of the war, while...

A portrait of Charlie Biton at the start of the Israeli Black Panther movement in 1971. (Courtesy of Meir Wigoder)

Israeli Black Panther . . . Knesset member

It was March, 1971 and Charlie Biton and his friends had recently taken to calling themselves “the Black Panthers” in admiration for the African-American group. The...

MP for Rochdale George Galloway, poses for a photograph outside his campaign headquarters in northern England on March 1, 2024. (Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images)

Arch anti-Zionist elected to UK parliament

Jewish groups across Britain are alarmed at the election of a veteran anti-Zionist politician, George Galloway, to the UK parliament in the northern town of Rochdale.

The new Workers Party Member of Parliament for Rochdale, In Los Angeles, Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protesters face off outside a planned speech by Ran Bar-Yoshafat, an Israeli reservist whose speech at the University of California, Berkeley, was derailed, Feb. 29, 2024. (Jacob Gurvis)

At Berkeley, IDF speaker cancelled amid violence

By Jacob Gurvis LOS ANGELES — As a member of the Israeli military who frequently speaks on Israel’s behalf, Ran Bar-Yoshafat is used to being heckled by anti-Israel...

Polish ‘countess’ saved thousands

In December, 1941, a petite, elegant woman left her home in Eastern Galicia, where she was known as the Jewish mathematician Janina Spinner Mehlberg. Three days later,...

World’s oldest Jew dies

Pearl Berg, thought to be the oldest Jewish person in the world and the third oldest American, died on Feb. 1 in Los Angeles. She was 114.

IDF rescues 2 hostages in Rafah

The Israeli military has rescued two hostages in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the second such rescue since Hamas took hundreds of Israelis captive on Oct. 7.

David Rubenstein heads group acquiring the Orioles

Jewish billionaire businessman David Rubenstein has reportedly agreed to purchase the Baltimore Orioles.

Russia extends journalist Gershkovich’s pre-trial detention

A Moscow court extended the pretrial detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich through March 30, meaning that he will have spent at least a year behind...