For Jewish Republicans, it’s all about ‘Florida, Florida, Florida’
With the presidential race entering its final weeks, more attention is being focused on a number of critical swing states that could determine the outcome of the election. This is especially true as most...
American Jewish poet Louise Glück wins Nobel Prize in Literature
American Jewish poet Louise Glück won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” said the Nobel Committee on Thursday.
She is just the...
US rescinds entry ban of Israeli-British journalist
The United States has lifted the entry ban it had placed on Jonathan Spyer, announced the Israeli-British journalist on social media.
“Expiration Date: 2030. Thanks and love to all those who helped,” in a Facebook post featuring...
Jewish reporter attacked in Brooklyn during protests against COVID restrictions
A reporter was attacked in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Wednesday night while covering protests by haredi Jews against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new coronavirus restrictions, including closing schools and yeshivahs, and his threatening to shutter synagogues and other houses...
Turmoil engulfs New York’s Jewish community amid COVID restrictions, protests and anti-Semitic incitement
Jew versus Jew attacks, protests and covert acts of anti-Semitism are just some of the alleged effects of the battle against COVID-19 and the push by New York state officials to stem the pandemic’s...
School board votes to reinstate Florida principal fired for Holocaust denial
The principal of a high school in the heavily Jewish city of Boca Raton, Fla., who was fired last year after he declined to recognize that the Holocaust occurred, has been reinstated.
The Palm Beach County School...
US blacklists Iran’s financial sector, sanctions 18 banks
The United States has issued new sanctions targeting Iranian banks and blacklisted Iran’s financial sector.
The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it has sanctioned 18 Iranian banks, sixteen of them for operating in Iran’s...
In vice-presidential debate, Pence and Harris spar over Iran, other Mideast issues
In Kingsbury Hall at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City—in the one and only vice-presidential debate for the 2020 election cycle—U.S. foreign policy regarding Iran was touched upon between U.S. Vice President...
US seizes 92 domain names used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
The FBI has seized 92 domain names unlawfully used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to engage in a global disinformation campaign, announced the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday.
Four of the domains purported...
Rep. Castro seeks to welcome Palestinians before Foreign Affairs Committee
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), who is running for the chairmanship of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee following the loss of current chair Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) in the New York primary race, promised...