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A person wears a watermelon-style kippah, a symbol of solidarity with Palestinians. (Paul Frangipane / AFP / Getty Images via JTA)
Dozens of Jews meet in New York to further their vision of Jewish life without Zionism
By Joseph Strauss
Brooklyn meeting billed as bootcamp for anti- and non-Zionist Jews seeking to share their progress and ideas around creating Jewish institutions without any attachment to Israel
Protesters gather in front of the Israeli Embassy in Dublin to protest Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, on May 14, 2024. (Stringer/Anadolu)
Dublin hotel canceled bookings for antisemitism conference, Jewish leader charges
By Zev Stub
The Reel Schmooze's featured film of the week is 'The Stamp Thief: A Holocaust Mystery.' (Courtesy)
The Reel Schmooze podcast
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‘The Stamp Thief’: Will a rag-tag team of LA Jews get lucky in Poland?
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
People look over a record book from 1836 that is displayed at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York, on October 24, 2017. (AP/Seth Wenig)
How YIVO pivoted from studying a living Yiddish world to preserving a vanishing culture
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
An interior of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Courtesy of The Weitzman Museum via JTA)
October 14, 2026, 7:45 pm
Philadelphia’s American Jewish history museum moves closer to joining the Smithsonian
Congressional commission studying whether to make Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History a Smithsonian member, at a difficult moment for the storied institution
By Andrew Lapin
Illustrative: A protester from Somerville, Massachusetts front, joins with other pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators as they display signs outside the home of US Senator Elizabeth Warren, during a protest November 19, 2023, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, held to call for a cease fire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
October 14, 2026, 6:49 am
Massachusetts city councilors hear petitions against Israel divestment ordinance
Head of group opposing measure, which would bar Somerville from dealing with firms supporting alleged Israeli international law violations, says ‘it makes Jews feel unwelcome’
By Gavi Klein
Congregants meet at congregation Beth El to say farewell to “The White Flame of the Six Million," a sculpture by storied artist Louise Nevelson that functioned as a bimah, in Great Neck, N.Y., October 1, 2026. (Michelle Falkenstein/JTA)
October 13, 2026, 10:08 pm
New York synagogue bids ‘sacred farewell’ to Holocaust memorial by Louise Nevelson
As membership declines at Great Neck’s once-prominent Temple Beth-El, the congregation seeks funds to donate its 50-foot-long sculpture to a museum after more than five decades 
By Michelle Falkenstein
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch holding a press conference on the annual Israel parade, May 29, 2026. (Screenshot/X/NYPDNEWS)
October 13, 2026, 1:34 pm
Threats to NYPD’s pro-Israel commissioner are an inflection point for New York Jews
If Jessica Tisch bows to pressure and leaves her job, it would mark the exit of an official seen by pro-Israel Jews as their bulwark in City Hall and raise questions about Mamdani’s response to antisemitism
By Ben Sales
Britain's King Charles III looks at bouquets of flowers during a visit to Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester, on October 20, 2025. (Chris Jackson / POOL / AFP)
October 13, 2026, 6:29 am
UK launches public inquiry into deaths during 2025 Yom Kippur Manchester synagogue attack
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells lawmakers that ‘what happened that day must be fully understood,’ and opening inquiry will ‘ensure that all evidence can be heard’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Members of the Jewish community comfort each other following a deadly terror attack during Yom Kippur services at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, northern England, October 2, 2025. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)
October 13, 2026, 1:03 am
Anti-Jewish hate crimes rise 10% in England and Wales, according to government data
Home Office figures show Jews and Muslims most targeted in religiously motivated hate crimes, with 3,162 incidents targeting Jewish community between March 2025 and March 2026
By Lianne Kolirin
Illustrative: Police officers guard a bridge in Berlin, Germany, August 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
October 12, 2026, 12:46 pm
Wheelchair-bound Berlin shop owner attacked after displaying posters against antisemitism
Attacks said to begin after Oct. 7 anniversary, when six youths twice came to store to allegedly insult and physically attack him; another group vandalized store Friday
By Zev Stub
Samin Nosrat, who appeared on stage at the JCCSF on October 5, 2026, in her 2018 Netflix limited series “Salt Fat Acid Heat.” (Adam Rose/Netflix via JTA)
October 10, 2026, 6:52 am
Celebrity chef who signed BDS pledge shares stage with Israeli chefs in San Francisco
Samin Nosrat, who since endorsing boycott movement discovered she has Jewish ancestry, appears at JCC alongside Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer, also promotes local Jewish bakery
By Christopher Neely
French far-right politician Jordan Bardella applauds as National Rally leader Marine Le Pen (not in picture) speaks in Henin-Beaumont, northern France, on September 13, 2026. (AP/Jean-Francois Badias)
October 10, 2026, 12:19 am
French far-right leader Bardella threatens to sue over new antisemitism allegations
As he fights for his political survival, French media says Le Pen’s 31-year-old deputy scrubbed comments from old Facebook account after report on alleged 2013 remarks against Jews
By AFP
A photo Dan Levene posted after reporting that he was assaulted by anti-Israel graffiti artists, October 7, 2026. (Dan Levene/X)
October 8, 2026, 10:43 pm
Jewish man says he was beaten after confronting anti-Israel vandals in London
Victim says he was attacked when he disrupted graffiti artist calling Labour candidate ‘puppet of genocidal Israel’; police said treating incident as antisemitic hate crime
By ToI Staff
Britain’s Green Party leader Zack Polanski attends a Green Party conference in Brighton, Britain, October 2, 2026. (Carlos Jasso/Reuters)
October 8, 2026, 5:21 pm
‘Moment of truth’: UK’s Jewish, anti-Israel Green Party leader faces key electoral test in London
Zack Polanski is at a political crossroads as voters in central London go to the polls for a special election during a week in which his party declared ‘Zionism is racism’
By Robert Philpot
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters encounter a pro-Israel protester during a march in London marking three years since 2023's Hamas-led invasion and massacre in Israel, October 7, 2026. (AP/Kin Cheung)
October 8, 2026, 5:18 pm
October 7 anniversary sparks protests, clashes and competing vigils worldwide
Demonstrations held across Europe, the Americas and Australia, with arrests in London and Berlin; anti-Israel rally initially banned in Paris, then allowed, amid wider unrest
By Zev Stub
'This Jewish Moment' author Michael Posner in Toronto, August 2026. (Robert Sarner)
October 8, 2026, 3:54 pm
Diaspora Jews predict their own decline and fall in new post-Oct. 7 oral history
Released on third anniversary of cataclysmic massacre, ‘This Jewish Moment’ by Canadian author Michael Posner captures zeitgeist of North American Jews in their own words. It’s not pretty.
By Robert Sarner
Israeli street artists Nitzan Mintz, left, and Dede Bandaid, right, in front of a sculpture commemorating the effort to release the Israeli hostages held in Gaza, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, October 7, 2026. (Agatha Khishchenko/Times of Israel)
October 8, 2026, 10:09 am
‘Sense of closure’: NY Jews deposit hostage tags into new art installation on Oct. 7
Sculpture designed by Israeli artists who launched poster campaign for Gaza captives is unveiled at NYC Holocaust museum, as Jewish community mourns on anniversary of Hamas attack
By Agatha Khishchenko
Naomi Ragen (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
October 7, 2026, 7:58 pm
Chicago Jewish theater drops Israeli writer’s play over creatives’ opposition
Naomi Ragen says company shelved plan to revive ‘Women’s Minyan’ after directors, actors, designers expressed fear of repercussions for work with ‘pro-Zionist Jew/Israeli’
By Lianne Kolirin
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