Liberal Michigan rabbis and other Jewish leaders are calling on the Democratic Party to agree to a list of “nonnegotiable” principles about Jewish safety and Israel as the party’s US Senate candidate in the state, Abdul El-Sayed, seeks to make inroads with Jewish voters.
A federal judge threw out the Trump administration’s lawsuit that accused Harvard University of having “turned a blind eye” to Jewish and Israeli students.
People are probably going to yell at me for having this conversation,” Hasan Piker said from his livestreaming chair, midway through a video call with Jewish Telegraphic Agency to discuss his views on Jews, Israel and Zionism. By “people,” Piker meant his own: the three million followers he boasts on the streaming site Twitch, where he opines about politics in between video game sessions for up to eight hours a day. That doesn’t include the many more who watch clips of his show on YouTube or follow him on X.
Four days after an attacker drove a car filled with explosives into her synagogue, Rabbi Jen Lader called a trusted photographer. Emily Iris Elconin took what would become the first official photos of the aftermath of the attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan.
In a video he posted March 10, Tucker Carlson said: “You may know people who give money to Chabad or run Chabad — super nice people, engaged in all kinds of charitable activities. But what is Chabad exactly? “Chabad has been pushing in a pretty subtle way, unless you look carefully, for the reconstruction of the Third Temple.”