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AJC official appointed to US State Department’s antisemitism envoy office
Julie Katz, the Atlanta associate director of the American Jewish Committee, will take a year off from her position to serve in the U.S. State Department, working with Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy to...
Sans new funds, UNRWA’s operations to be ‘severely compromised’ by March
Philippe Lazzrini, commissioner-general of UNRWA, asked the president of the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday for permanent U.N. budgetary support for the scandal-plagued Palestinian-only refugee and social services agency.
Lazzrini wrote to Dennis Francis appealing to U.N....
Israel is both traumatized and sober-minded
There’s a “new wisdom” making the rounds in foreign-policy circles in Washington. It goes something like this: Israelis were so traumatized by Hamas’s brutal invasion on Oct. 7 that they can’t think straight about...
Is Biden worrying about losing the wrong voters?
Maybe President Joe Biden and his White House handlers are looking at their re-election problems through the wrong end of the telescope. Their top priority these days is doing something about their problems with...
Apple+ drama on fashion guru Coco Chanel glosses over Nazi collaboration
“The New Look,” a new TV program on the streaming service Apple+, explores World War II decisions made by founders of clothing lines that are worth billions today.
The show dramatizes the lives of Christian...
British MPs melt down over Gaza
When Queen Elizabeth II died, people mourned not only the loss of a beloved and admirable monarch but what they believed was the passing of the beloved and admirable Britain that she had embodied.
The...
Poll: Majority of New York Jewish voters intend to vote for Trump
A poll of registered New York voters suggests that a majority of Jews in the state intend to vote for former President Donald Trump in the presidential election in November.
New York Jews now favor...
American Christian Media group: Ax usage of term ‘West Bank’
The head of a prominent group of American Christian media broadcasters on Wednesday urged members of the association to cease using the term “West Bank” when reporting about Israel’s biblical heartland.
The announcement by the...
Rooted in their ‘deepest Jewish values,’ five NYC, state officials accuse Israel of ‘mass...
Two New York state senators and three city officials—an assembly member, a comptroller and a council member—penned an open letter claiming that their “deep” Jewish faith compels them to denounce Israel for “indiscriminate” bombing, among other...
The serial killer who might be the first president of Palestine
A Greek Orthodox priest named Georgios Tsibouktzakis was murdered for the crime of driving while mistakenly being perceived as Jewish. And now his killer is being widely touted as the likely first president of...