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Rep. Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, arrives for US President Donald Trump's State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

February 11, 2019, 5:03 am

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar suggests Jewish money behind US support of Israel

Newly elected Muslim lawmaker provokes fresh accusations of anti-Semitism for saying Washington’s support for Jewish state is ‘all about the Benjamins’ from AIPAC

By Eric Cortellessa

Adam Andruszkiewicz (Screen grab via YouTube)

January 8, 2019, 6:40 am

Poland picks former hate group boss to police internet, says Jewish organization

AJC says Adam Andruszkiewicz, secretary of state in Digital Affairs Ministry, led group which states ‘Jews are a racist foreign group’ in its ideological doctrine

By Katarzyna Markusz

A member of the Jewish community looks at broken tombstones after a ceremony at the Jewish cemetery in Sarre-Union, eastern France, on February 17, 2015, following the desecration of around 300 tombs. (AFP/Patrick Hertzog)

December 10, 2018, 3:43 pm

Jewish groups say EU anti-Semitism poll is ‘final warning,’ urge Europe to act

Umbrella organizations say European leadership needs to take urgent steps after massive survey finds 90% of European Jews sense increasing levels of hatred toward them

By TOI staff

Activist Linda Sarsour speaks during a 'Women For Syria' gathering at Union Square, in New York City, April 13, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via JTA)

November 18, 2018, 9:19 pm

Linda Sarsour rapped for appearing to accuse US Jews of dual loyalty to Israel

Political activist says attacks on congresswoman-elect Ilhan Omar come from those who ‘choose their allegiance to Israel over their commitment to democracy and free speech’

By JTA

Illustrative photo of police tape at the JCC in Nashville, Tennessee, after the community center received a bomb threat on January 9, 2017. (Screenshot: The Tennessean)

October 4, 2018, 5:21 am

Trump signs law expanding hate crime protections to religious institutions

American Jewish Committee praises legislation, partly enacted in response to spate of JCC bomb threats

By JTA

US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the Lotte New York Palace hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

September 27, 2018, 10:01 am

Former top US politicians join Jewish group in rejecting Trump’s isolationism

Ex-VP Joe Biden, House Speaker John Boehner, along with ex-British PM Tony Blair, say relationship with NATO, EU ‘sustains peace and generated prosperity’

By JTA

US Senator Joseph Lieberman (L) and US Senator John McCain arrive for the 50th Munich Security Conference in the Bayerischer Hof hotel on January 31, 2014 in Munich, Germany. (Joerg Koch/Getty Images via JTA)

August 26, 2018, 1:01 pm

Jewish leaders mourn McCain for his bipartisanship, fierce commitment to Israel

His close friendship with Joe Lieberman, a liberal Orthodox Jew he considered running with, was not without trials: ‘Why in every f***ing kosher menu do we have to have salmon?’

By Ron Kampeas

Right-wing Jewish activists protest outside a joint ceremony for families of Israeli and Palestinian victims on Israeli Memorial Day, in Tel Aviv on April 21, 2015. The flag reads 'The land of Israel only for the people of Israel'. (Tomer NeubergFlash90)

July 20, 2018, 12:44 am

ADL raises alarm over Israeli democracy after nation-state bill

Watchdog joins other US Jewish groups in concern over Jewish state’s treatment of minorities, but backs law’s determination of state symbols

By Eric Cortellessa and TOI staff

Reform leader Rabbi Rick Jacobs (Robert A. Cumins/JFNA via JTA)

July 19, 2018, 8:13 am

Reform and AJC leaders bitterly criticize Israel’s nation-state bill

AJC ‘deeply disappointed’ by new legislation; Reform’s Rick Jacobs bemoans ‘sad and unnecessary day for Israeli democracy’

By Eric Cortellessa

President Donald Trump listens as Judge Brett Kavanaugh his Supreme Court nominee speaks, in the East Room of the White House, Monday, July 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

July 10, 2018, 5:53 am

Jewish groups ‘concerned’ over Trump’s Supreme Court pick Kavanaugh

While Senate minority leader Schumer vows to try and block nomination, Republican Jewish Coalition says it ‘looks forward to his confirmation’

By Eric Cortellessa

A tourist visits the tomb of World War II-era head of Poland's Catholic Church, Cardinal August Hlond, in St. John's Arch-Cathedral in Warsaw, Poland, June 16, 2018. (Alik Keplicz/AP)

July 4, 2018, 5:54 pm

Accusations of anti-Semitism mount against Polish priest set for sainthood

In 1936 pastoral letter, Cardinal August Hlond called Jewish people ‘the vanguard of godlessness, Bolshevism and subversion,’ but also prohibited attacks on Jews

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and Nicole Winfield

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is seen during a ceremony at the White House, April 10, 2017. (Eric Thayer/Getty Images via JTA)

June 28, 2018, 7:15 pm

Retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Jewish legacy

In his 3 decades on the court, Kennedy decided countless cases regarding religious liberty, many of which were important to — and divided — American Jews

By Charles Dunst

People carry Israeli flags as they march during the annual Celebrate Israel Parade, Sunday, June 3, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

June 26, 2018, 7:53 pm

Abrasive Israel, apathetic Diaspora behind Jewry’s widening gap, says report

Jerusalem-based think tank JPPI says now that the Jewish state is indisputably Judaism’s ‘center of gravity,’ it bears the onus of mending rift with splintered community abroad

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Sheikh Yahya Cholil Staquf, leader of Nahdlatul Ulama, at his Jerusalem office, June 14, 2018 (Haim Zach, GPO)

June 15, 2018, 6:28 am

Netanyahu unexpectedly meets with Indonesian Muslim leader

Yahya Staquf, who heads world’s largest Muslim organization, says he wants to promote ties with Jerusalem, but stresses he came to affirm ‘Palestine’s sovereignty’

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov in Jerusalem, June 13, 2018. (Haim Zach/GPO)

June 13, 2018, 3:04 pm

Bulgaria sympathetic to Israel wanting Jerusalem recognition — to a point

On visit, PM Borisov insists he won’t relocate embassy, though he’s ‘not indifferent’ to a sovereign state wanting its choice for capital to be recognized by the world

By Raphael Ahren