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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...

Social media posts from Six Sailor Cider and Weathered Waves Bar in Salt Lake City, Utah, including one in which the business says it is "banning all Zionists forever from our establishments," posted March 4, 2024. (Screenshots via Instagram and Pinterest)

Six Sailor Cider in Salt Lake: ‘No Zionists Allowed’

Utah officials are investigating a cidery and bar in Salt Lake City after it announced, “No Zionists Allowed.”

Zachary Marschall

He’s filing Title VI campus anti-Semitism complaints

Zachary Marschall is the most prolific filer of anti-Semitism complaints filed under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act since Oct. 7.

Jewish at DU — in the aftermath of Oct. 7

For Jewish students at the University of Denver (DU), the last five months have been, to put it mildly, tempestuous. The Intermountain Jewish News speaks with students,...

Avigail Olman, left, and Sagi Gabay, right, speak with, clockwise from bottom left, the IJN's Hillel Goldberg, Shana Goldberg and Steve Mark, March 6, 2024.

In Denver, chilling Oct. 7 testimony

Five months removed from one of the most horrific days in Israeli history, Sagi Gabay recounts with vivid detail the attack at the Nova music festival that almost killed...

A Stand in Solidarity with Israel gathering at the Wyoming State Capitol in Cheyenne, March 7, 2024.

For Israeli who faced violence in Berkeley, Wyoming is ‘friendly and polite’

Ran Bar-Yoshafat, who spoke at a Solidarity with Israel event today in Cheyenne outside of the Wyoming State Capitol, has had an eventful 10 days. The IDF soldier who is...

Alexei Navalny, left; and Natan Sharansky, right (Wikimedia Commons)

Sharansky on Navalny: Lessons from a dissident

Natan Sharansky — the Russian-Israeli refusenik, author and human rights activist who was imprisoned by the former Soviet Union from 1977 to 1986 — is what you might...

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.