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Rescue workers and volunteers helping residents make their way out of a flooded neighborhood after it was inundated with rain following Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Aug. 29, 2017. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Jewish institutions have been damaged by the flooding, and the Houston Jewish federation estimated that the vast majority of local Jews live in affected areas. The federation is raising relief funds and coordinating Jewish service agencies.
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The Peter Stuyvesant statue in New York City stands in a Manhattan square named for him. (Wikimedia Commons)
The group’s complaint affects a range of locations and institutions around the city — from the elite Stuyvesant High School to Bedford-Stuyvesant, a Brooklyn neighborhood.
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Protesters and counterprotesters are shown clashing at Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12, 2017. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, via JTA)
Some have celebrated the antifa activists for standing up to hate. But others have condemned them alongside neo-Nazis for engaging in violence. And on Tuesday, Trump appeared to equate them with the rabble of white supremacists.
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White supremacists exchanging insults with counterprotesters as they attempt to guard the entrance to Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 12, 2017(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The rally was the largest white supremacist gathering in a decade, according to the Anti-Defamation League, but it wasn’t the work of one extremist group or coalition.
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Jared Kushner speaking at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next door to the White House, June 19, 2017. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
In describing recent events, Kushner displayed a pro-Israel stance — unsurprising given that he was raised in pro-Israel Jewish day schools and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once slept in his childhood bed.
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Children waving Israeli and American flags at the Celebrate Israel parade in New York City, June 4, 2017. (Perry Bindelglass)
Estimates of Israelis in America vary widely — from about 200,000 to as many as a million.
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West Side Judaica, which has sold Jewish books and ritual objects in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Manhattan’s Upper West Side for more than eight decades, expects to close at the end of the calendar year. (Ben Sales)
In the past decade, the store’s sales have been cut by more than half. For the first time in memory, Seltzer said, last week the store had a day with less than $1,000 in revenue — barely enough to make the new rent of $24,000 a month.
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Muslims at a prayer service celebrating Eid-al-Fitr in Stamford, Conn., June 25, 2017. (John Moore/Getty Images)
On Wednesday, the Pew Research Center released a survey of American Muslims focusing not only on numbers and their way of life, but also on how the community has responded to the election of President Donald Trump.
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer giving a briefing at the White House, Feb. 8, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Spicer managed to get in two separate tiffs with Jewish leaders over the Holocaust. For good measure, he also made controversial statements about Jerusalem and the rash of JCC bomb threats.
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Marchers at the 48th annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade in Chicago, June 25, 2017. (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP/Getty Images)
Jewish LGBT leaders hope they can stem these trends through dialogue and explanation, distinguishing Israel’s politics from the nation’s right to exist, and Israel from Judaism.
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Jewish women praying at the women’s section of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, May 16, 2017 (Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images)
American Jewish leaders who pushed for the agreement say they feel betrayed by Netanyahu.
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