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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)
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Record high number of British Jews attend aliyah fair as antisemitism roils country
By Lianne Kolirin
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
Demand rising for iconic Jerusalem homes as ‘ultra-luxury’ market takes off
By Zev Stub
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
Jewish Ukrainians line up to receive aid distribution in Kyiv in the fall of 2025. (Theia Chatelle/ JTA)
February 24, 2026, 12:55 pm
After 4 years of war, Ukraine’s Jews face increasing sirens, shortages and uncertainty
On the grim anniversary of the Russian invasion, those in the Jewish community who haven’t fled meet in shelters to light Shabbat candles, while elderly rely on intermittent aid packages
By Theia Chatelle
Spectators watch the 2025 Israel Day Parade, on New York's Fifth Avenue, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
February 5, 2026, 8:58 pm
Even most Israel-supporting US Jews don’t identify as ‘Zionists,’ JFNA survey finds
In wake of Oct. 7, the war in Gaza and election of anti-Zionist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Jewish Americans do not have a mutually agreed-upon definition of Zionism, findings reveal
By Andrew Lapin
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens delivered the "State of World Jewry" talk at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, February 1, 2026. (Peter Jamus/Michael Priest Photography via JTA)
February 3, 2026, 10:02 am
In 92NY talk, Bret Stephens urges ‘dismantling’ ADL, investing more in Jewish identity
Conservative New York Times columnist questions the effectiveness of current efforts against antisemitism, says impulse to seek external validation is ‘a fool’s errand’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
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