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A Community Security Service (CSS) volunteer stands guard outside a synagogue during a security training drill, in Westchester County, New York, April 28, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
September 3, 2026, 9:50 pm
US Jewish community security costs surpass $1 billion per year — study
Jewish Federations of North America says record expenses amount to around $225,000 in annual costs per institution
By Luke Tress
An Image of the US and Israeli flags is projected on the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, July 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
August 23, 2026, 3:31 am
Israelis worry about weakening connection with young US Jews amid rising antisemitism
Poll finds only 4/10 religious and 2/10 secular Jewish Americans consider supporting Israel to be important, prompting concern they’ll stop viewing it as a safe place to turn to
By AP
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett addresses a 'security concept conference' held by his B’Yachad party, August 19, 2026. (Elad Gutman)
August 19, 2026, 7:53 pm
Bennett: Israel should strike Iran to retaliate for Hezbollah attacks
B’Yachad chief accuses PM of tearing ‘Israeli society to shreds’ at party conference. Lapid calls to repair Israel’s ‘bipartisan status’ in US, strengthen ties with Diaspora Jews
By Sam Sokol
Members of Standing Together protest for equal financial security for all residents of Israel outside the Knesset on May 14, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 14, 2026, 3:54 pm
As two-state hopes fade, more US Jews are open to a one-state future for the Middle East
Nearly half of Jewish Americans under 35 now support a binational state, a poll finds, reviving an idea long considered anti-Zionist – though many say they’re emotionally attached to Israel
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Anti-Israel demonstrators protest against the war in Iran on March 2, 2026, in New York City. (Adam Gray / Getty Images via AFP)
July 1, 2026, 6:00 pm
The world is turning dangerous for Jews again. Israel has to get its house in order
This is not Nazi Germany in the 1930s. But it is a global crisis for Jews — and it demands an Israel strong enough, and united enough, to provide a refuge that is secure, welcoming and true to its founding values
By David Horovitz
New York correspondent Luke Tress joins host Jessica Steinberg for today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI/AP)
June 11, 2026, 3:27 pm
Daily Briefing June 11 – Inside Iran-linked Diaspora terror attacks: A suspect speaks
NY correspondent Luke Tress brings us new details on Iranian proxies operating in the Jewish Diaspora, patterns of support among anti-Israel groups, and an investigation into the Miss Israel beauty contest
By Jessica Steinberg and Luke Tress
Hezzie Raymond and Tamara Sireling Raymond, along with their 9-month-old son, attend the Aliyah Day fair at StoneX Stadium in north London, May 10, 2026. (Omri Dagan for the Jewish Agency for Israel)
May 13, 2026, 5:27 pm
Record high number of British Jews attend aliyah fair as antisemitism roils country
Some 1,200 turn out for Sunday event offering practical advice on moving to Israel amid rising levels of hatred and violence, though data doesn’t yet point to mass exodus
By Lianne Kolirin
Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji, 50, puts his hands behind his back as he leaves Ventura County Superior Court in connection with the death of Paul Kessler in Ventura, California, on November 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
May 8, 2026, 2:10 am
Jewish leaders decry ‘inadequate’ plea deal for California man guilty of pro-Israel protester’s death
Loay Alnaji will spend no more than a year in county jail after pleading guilty to all charges including involuntary manslaughter
By Grace Gilson
Greenwood Elementary School in Olney, Maryland. (Google Streetview via JTA)
May 7, 2026, 8:32 am
US Jewish group calls for ‘zero tolerance’ as antisemitism surges in school district
Students at Maryland district schools have faced antisemitic graffiti, physical threats and harassment, and ‘Heil Hitler’ gestures at events, community group head says
By Grace Gilson
Akiva Shrier wins second place at the International Bible Quiz on April 19 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Screenshot via JTA)
April 27, 2026, 5:05 pm
US teens place high in Israel’s annual Bible Quiz
American participants who managed to arrive in the country during tenuous ceasefire with Iran drew extra praise from the judges this year for their fluency in Hebrew
By Grace Gilson
Jewish worshippers attend the annual Jewish pilgrimage to the Ghriba synagogue in Tunisia's southern resort island of Djerba, on May 8, 2023. (Yassine Mahjoub / AFP)
April 14, 2026, 11:32 pm
Tunisia broadens access to annual Jewish pilgrimage to Africa’s oldest synagogue
Organizers announces ‘gradual return to normal’ after the event was scaled down in wake of deadly 2023 terror attack on historic Ghriba synagogue
By AFP
Catherine Szkop (left) and Abbie Talmoud, survivors of the terror attack at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, stands at the gate to Auschwitz on April 13, 2026. (Yossi Zeliger)
April 14, 2026, 5:03 pm
At Auschwitz, Diaspora Jews who lived through terror march alongside Holocaust survivors
In the deadliest year for Diaspora Jews in three decades, the March of the Living becomes a meeting place for those who experienced antisemitic persecution on three continents
By Lianne Kolirin
Law enforcement respond to a call at Temple Israel synagogue, March 12, 2026, in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
March 27, 2026, 9:50 pm
Diaspora Jews targeted over a dozen times in March, as Iran war fuels tensions
Incidents targeting Jewish communities included shootings, bombings, arson and a car-ramming, in an increase that is apparently linked to Mideast conflict
By Luke Tress
People embrace as law enforcement escort families away from the Temple Israel synagogue, in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, March 12, 2026. (AP/Paul Sancya)
March 13, 2026, 2:55 am
Michigan shul is at least the 8th Diaspora synagogue targeted so far this month
Ramming and shooting incident at Detroit-area congregation follows multiple attacks in Canada, a foiled plot in Azerbaijan, blasts in Belgium and Netherlands
By Luke Tress
Smoke rises on the skyline after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, February 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
February 28, 2026, 8:34 pm
American Jewish groups throw support behind US-Israeli operation against Iran
Organizations also call for increased security, urge Jewish communities worldwide to remain on alert for possible Iranian retaliation
By Grace Gilson
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