Trump pulls plug on US aid to Israel
In an Election day stunner, President Trump surrendered to pressure from anti-Zionist forces on the Democratic leat and Republican right and said he will end US aid to Israel at the end of the year.
shoah
Never again, set in stone: 19 memebers will shape Shoah memorial
Never again, set in stone: Gov. Hochul taps 19 educators, historians and Jewish leaders to shape a permanent Shoah memorial facing the State Capitol in Albany.
antisemitism
Jew-hate is ‘everyone’s problem,’ says Maloney
Everyone’s problem: UES Councilmember Virginia Maloney, raised in a ‘proud Zionist household,’ calls antisemitism ‘everyone’s problem.’
Politics
Van Jones cites Blacks, Jews for US democracy
‘Thank a Black, thank a Jew’: Van Jones tells a Magen David Adom gala that US democracy rests on both communities — and warns Jew-hatred is poisoning his own.
German Artist
Son’s conversion led painter to her hidden roots
Didn’t know she was Jewish: Until her teen son chose Judaism. Now painter Barbara Hines mixes Israeli soil into her canvases.
Israel
Herzog honors Boy George for standing by Jews
Karma Chameleon no more: Herzog honors Boy George, who says his Oct. 7 anthem ‘We Will Dance Again’ forced him to grow up.
Safety
Manchester survivors feel unsafe one year later
10-foot gates: A year after a Yom Kippur terrorist killed two at Manchester’s Heaton Park shul, survivors live behind more walls — and feel no safer.
kosher bookworm
Legacy of Kristallnacht is a message for all time
‘Not if but when’: Alan Gerber revisits Kristallnacht — from a Paris gunman to Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life — and finds old warnings ring truer than ever.
Books
Israel should not be exception to critical thinking
Guilty until proven: Andrea Martin says campuses convict Israel before the trial — and urges colleges to assign a federal judge’s book that puts the evidence on the stand.
kosher kitchen
So many reasons to be thankful. Now let’s eat!
Thanksgiving winners: Joni serves up make-aheads (turkey stock, pomegranate cranberry sauce, maple yams, lightning-fast Brussels sprouts) plus a side of gratitude.
Schools
HAFTR’s tribute honors beloved teacher Ally Rahmani
HAFTR pays a heartfelt tribute to beloved math coordinator Ally Rahmani, whose creativity and big heart live on through a new legacy foundation.
Nira Worcman
When anger over schools finds a Jewish target
Trampling French Jews: French students march over bad schools — so why target Jews? Nira Worcman connects the dots.
politics
First Israel election: ‘Holiest moment of my life’
Israel’s ‘holiest moment’: In 1949, a rabbi was first in line to vote in Israel’s first election. When he voted, he recited Shehecheyanu.
Eddie Rubin
My kids survived Temple Israel. The hate did too.
“Too bad this guy’s kids survived’: Dad whose young kids lived through the Temple Israel preschool attack says hate outlasted the headlines — on right and left.
torah
From Kristallnacht’s glass, the strength to rise
Glass like snow: At a Long Beach Kristallnacht vigil, a 96-year-old survivor stunned the room. Rabbi Berlin finds her secret in Avraham — who wept, then rose.
Books
Khalidi’s bestselling omissions about Holy Land
Palestinian secrets: Rashid Khalidi blasts partition as colonialism — but CAMERA finds what his bestseller leaves out — his own uncle proposed partition.
food
Young Jews can find their heritage at the table
Challah and a seat: ANU Museum’s Merav Oren says a slice of challah and a seat at the Shabbat table may be young Jews’ best way home to their heritage.
Alexandra Herzog
Ireland’s Jews deserve to thrive, not just survive
Checked out: Dublin hotel axed 70 rooms booked for an antisemitism conference. Chaim Herzog’s granddaughter eyes Ireland’s relations with its Jews.
Gerald Platt
The Jewish case for living beyond ourselves
Wired for chesed: From a Polish shtetl to Gaza after Oct. 7, Gerald Platt says Jews are wired for chesed — one kindness at a time.
This week in Torah
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Beauty is vain. Then why do we praise Sarah’s?
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From Kristallnacht’s glass, the strength to rise
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Isaac in the field: Prayer as holy conversation
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Avraham mourns Sarah: Eulogy first, then tears
Eulogy first, tears later: Why did Avraham praise Sarah before he wept? Rabbi Weinreb weighs three commentators and finds Sarah still very much present.
Melanie Phillips
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The trillion-dollar campaign to conquer the West
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Alarm bells sound as New York falls of a cliff
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The global reach of a renewed war in Gaza
Diplomatic efforts to end the regional war launched by Hamas with its Oct. 7, 2023 pogrom in southern Israel have now returned to the place where it all started. Last week, the Board of Peace, the …
Ben Cohen
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Anti-Jew French violence was always intimate
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Red, white, black and green food war is upon us
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Here’s why next United Nations leader matters to Israel
Who’ll run the UN? With Guterres leaving, Ben Cohen sizes up the nail-biting race — and the surprise Emirati contender who’s more open to Israel than her rivals.
Books
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Khalidi’s bestselling omissions about Holy Land
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Who’s teaching American kids about Palestine?
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Israel should not be exception to critical thinking
Guilty until proven: Andrea Martin says campuses convict Israel before the trial — and urges colleges to assign a federal judge’s book that puts the evidence on the stand.
On Campus
Here’s what real Jewish leadership looks like
Rabbi Dr. Mark Goldfeder and the National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) delivered a decisive, precedent-setting legal victory this week that cuts to the core of how antisemitism is litigated and …
More Opinion Columns
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Celebrities endorsed a different ‘Free Palestine’
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Let’s not get too comfortable. War is coming.
Tehran sent a message to its Lebanese terror proxy Hezbollah: “We estimate that an American attack is a matter of time. You should be prepared.” Iran has concluded that another US strike …
Food: Dining In
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Young Jews can find their heritage at the table
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So many reasons to be thankful. Now let’s eat!
Thanksgiving winners: Joni serves up make-aheads (turkey stock, pomegranate cranberry sauce, maple yams, lightning-fast Brussels sprouts) plus a side of gratitude.
Travel
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Sweet home Alabama: Deep South Jewish story
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Chabad in action, a year after Hurricane Melissa
A year after Hurricane Melissa, Chabad of Jamaica’s Rabbi Yaakov Raskin reflects on a soaring new statue and the island’s kids still healing.
Health
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First in Israel: Hadassah surgeons use spine robot
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Mount Sinai now treats strokes around the clock
Every minute counts: Mount Sinai South Nassau opens a $10 million biplane suite — no more racing Long Island stroke patients elsewhere.