At least one member of South Carolina’s Holocaust education council has resigned after the group’s chair edited a rabbi’s “political” speech commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz out of the event’s TV broadcast.
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South Carolina’s Holocaust council is divided after chair cuts rabbi’s ‘political’ remarks from Auschwitz memorial broadcast
Netanyahu heads to Washington for what Trump says are ‘very big meetings’
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set off for Washington, D.C., on Sunday, he told Israelis that he was looking forward to reconnecting with an old friend.
“I’m leaving for a very important meeting with President…
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A South Carolina rabbi’s Holocaust memorial speech was pulled from public TV for being too ‘political’
A rabbi in South Carolina used the occasion of a Holocaust memorial ceremony to draw parallels to modern-day federal and state policies on refugees, LGBTQ issues and book bans — only to have his speech cut out of the state…
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Trump’s order on antisemitism suggests deporting non-citizen campus activists, dividing Jewish groups
Jewish groups are offering mixed reactions to President Donald Trump’s latest executive order on antisemitism that suggests that foreign-born anti-Israel student protesters could be deported.
Some say the order is taking…
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Combative Jewish lawmaker Randy Fine, a Trump favorite, wins Florida GOP House primary
Randy Fine, a Jewish Florida state senator whose bruising demeanor has made him a new favorite on the right, easily won the Republican primary for an open House seat.
An Associated Press estimate showed that Fine took more than…
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Jewish nonprofits say Trump’s federal funding freeze would threaten social services and security programs
Jewish organizations that deliver a wide array of social services are scrambling to make sense of President Donald Trump’s unprecedented freeze on many forms of federal funding.
“This has a massive, widespread impact,”…
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Benjamin Netanyahu to meet Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 4
Benjamin Netanyahu will meet President Donald Trump at the White House next week, making the Israeli prime minister the first foreign leader to be invited to Trump’s residence since he took office last week.
Netanyahu’s…
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Dozens of Jewish groups protest Trump’s plans for mass deportation
Dozens of Jewish organizations have signed an open letter to President Donald Trump protesting his planned mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.
The letter, published on Jan. 27, demonstrates that as Trump retakes…
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Trump says he is pressing leaders of Arab nations to take in Gaza Palestinians
President Donald Trump says he has asked Jordan to accept Palestinians from Gaza and plans to press Egypt to do the same.
Trump said he spoke to Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Saturday, five days after being inaugurated for his…
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Trump to deliver 2,000-pound bombs to Israel
President Donald Trump will allow the delivery of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, removing a hold his predecessor, Joe Biden, had placed on the ordnance.
The change comes during a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that Trump…
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