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Rep. Steny Hoyer is shown here speaking during the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., in March of 2019. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images via JTA)
Harry Jarin, who launched his bid for Hoyer’s seat in May, criticized the veteran lawmaker for visiting to Israel.
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Sophie Jakubovich (left), a mom at Akiba Yavneh Academy, is shown with her twin daughters, Elly and Leah. (Photo by Natalie Solomon via JTA)
With antisemitism and costs of living on the rise elsewhere, this Jewish day school in Dallas is booming.
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Morton Sher's fighter plane was shot down in 1943 over central China. (Courtesy Department of Defense)
The burial for World War II flying ace Morton Sher was held Dec. 14, on what would have been his 105th birthday.
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President Donald Trump participates in NORAD Santa tracker phone calls on Christmas Eve from the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)
Federal posts invoking “our Lord and Savior” prompt concerns about church-state separation and how the rhetoric lands with religious minorities.
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Author Gilly Segal (left) interviews literary agent Rena Rossner (center) and rabbi and author Angela Buchdahl at the Artists Against Antisemitism 2025 Jewish Writers Mifgash in September. (Rebecca J. Michelson, provided by JTA)
To combat rising antisemitism and exclusion of Jewish authors, UJA-Federation of New York has awarded grants to six organizations working in different areas of the literary ecosystem.
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Wissahickon Superintendent of Schools Mwenyewe Dawan (second from left) and School Board President Amy Ginsburg (third from left) speak at a press conference on Dec. 19. (Screenshot via JTA)
Philip Leddy of the Lower Gwynedd Elementary School in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, confirmed to the Wissahickon School District that he uttered the antisemitic remarks heard on the voicemail message.
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A portrait of 10-year-old Matilda, the youngest victim of the Bondi Beach shooting, sits on a flower memorial beside Bondi Pavilion inAustralia. (James D. Morgan/Getty Images, via JTA)
The daughter of Ukrainian immigrants, Matilda, 10, was filmed watching her father put on tefillin shortly before the terrorist attack.
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Rabbi Hody Nemes (far left) stands in front of Hersh’s Fridge, a community fridge that serves kosher-keeping Jews in the Chicago area. (Courtesy of Rabbi Hody Nemes via JTA)
Hersh’s Fridge, a kosher community fridge in suburban Chicago, honors the memory of the late Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
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President Donald Trump looks on during a Chanukah reception in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday night, Dec. 16. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, via JTA)
The president made the remarks at a White House gathering marking the third night of Chanukah.
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An exhibition at Manhattan's Society for the Advancement of Judaism celebrates congregants' family immigration stories. (Photo courtesy of SAJ via JTA)
Telling our families’ immigrant stories reminds us what this nation is about at a time when newcomers are under attack, writes Ruth Messinger.
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Boris Gurman, at left, was captured on dashcam footage confronting the Bondi Beach Hanukkah shooters before being killed. (Screenshot via JTA)
Boris Gurman was killed, as was his wife of 34 years, Sofia.
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