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Israel-Diaspora relations

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
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
After a long career at the Anti-Defamation League, Aryeh Tuchman has left for a senior role at the Nexus Project, an antisemitism watchdog group that is often critical of the ADL. (Courtesy/ via JTA)
January 29, 2026, 5:47 pm
Senior ADL antisemitism researcher leaves to lead effort at rival watchdog Nexus
Aryeh Tuchman says he’s looking to ‘ask different questions,’ not ‘repudiate’ his former employer, as he moves to a competing organization with a differing approach to Israel
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Then-Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, center, attends a Commemoration Ceremony in Schenley Park, in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood, on October 27, 2021, three years after a gunman killed 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life Synagogue. (AP/Gene J. Puskar)
January 25, 2026, 1:21 am
From Alfred Dreyfus to Josh Shapiro: How the ‘dual loyalty’ charge shadows Diaspora Jewry
A question put to the Pennsylvania governor by Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential vetting team highlights how a historic antisemitic trope collides with modern attachment to Israel
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Mickey Gitzin, the interim CEO of the New Israel Fund. (Courtesy NIF via JTA)
January 21, 2026, 3:27 am
Dismissing nationalists and anti-Zionists, NIF’s interim CEO champions liberal democracy
Mickey Gitzin steps up to helm the New Israel Fund, an established but fast-growing NGO navigating the tricky progressive, pro-Israel terrain post-October 7
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Israeli artists Neta Elkayam and Amit Hai Cohen are partners in life and in music. (Gil Rouvio via JTA)
January 10, 2026, 8:38 am
Speaking the language of music, Israeli-born couple brings Moroccan roots to US university
Neta Elkayam and Amit Hai Cohen draw on rediscovered heritage to connect with students at the historically Black Xavier University in Louisiana, where many have no exposure to Jews
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Peter Beinart speaks at a panel on 'The Jewish Tent at a Crossroads' in the sanctuary of B'nai Jeshurun in Manhattan, January 6, 2026. Others on the panel were, from left, moderator Rabbi Irwin Kula, Esther Sperber, Rabbi Jill Jacobs and Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove. (Gili Getz/B'nai Jeshurun via JTA)
January 9, 2026, 6:59 pm
US Jewish leaders face off over a ‘crisis’ in liberal Zionism and toxic Jewish infighting
In conversation at an NYC synagogue, Peter Beinart, Elliot Cosgrove and others lament that young American Jews find it increasingly difficult to support both democratic values and Israel
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani celebrates victory during an election night event at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, New York on November 4, 2025. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
November 5, 2025, 3:24 pm
Israeli politicians alarmed at election of ‘Hamas supporter’ Mamdani as NY mayor
Liberman: New York elected ‘the poster boy for the silent jihad’; Diaspora minister calls on local Jews to move to Israel; Arab MK hails win for ‘social justice, equality, and solidarity’
By Sam Sokol
A crowd gathers at the Tel Aviv ceremony commemorating 30 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, November 1, 2025. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)
November 4, 2025, 5:21 pm
Yitzhak Rabin was killed 30 years ago this week. Has the Jewish world forgotten?
A new play, a book of poetry and numerous events seek to remind Jews in Israel and abroad how the death of a prime minister, killed while championing peace, is relevant today
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
At Amit Amital School in Netanya, Isabella Vinci taught English as part of a Masa program, November 2022. (Courtesy via JTA)
October 25, 2025, 6:48 am
Highlighting Diaspora rift, Israel rejects US immigration applicant over Zoom-era conversion
Critics say the rebuffing of Isabella Vinci, who spent Shabbats with an Orthodox host family and taught English in an Israeli public school, defies a 2005 High Court ruling
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
MK Gilad Kariv (The Democrats) chairs a meeting of the Knesset Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee, October 21, 2025. (Sam Sokol/ Times of Israel)
October 21, 2025, 7:51 pm
‘Disgrace’: Knesset Diaspora panel chair pans Chikli for inviting British firebrand
Opposition MK Kariv says Tommy Robinson’s visit shows Diaspora minister ‘uninterested in fighting antisemitism’; representatives of his ministry and Foreign Ministry deny involvement
By Sam Sokol
A synagogue in Teaneck, New Jersey, displays lanterns representing the hostages who were still alive in Gaza and the bodies of those who were also slated to be returned under a deal between Israel and Hamas, October 8, 2025. (JTA photo)
October 14, 2025, 5:36 pm
Too soon? Amid hostage releases, some US Jews retire solidarity rituals with gratitude and grief
With the freeing of the living captives and continued demands for the return of 24 bodies still held in Gaza, worshipers grapple with closure on Simhat Torah, two years into an ordeal begun on Oct. 7, 2023
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Illustrative: A woman wears a Star of David and a necklace remembering the Israeli hostages during a rally at George Washington University, May 2, 2024. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images via JTA)
October 6, 2025, 3:41 am
Two years in, some are asking if the war in Gaza is changing Judaism
Rabbis and pundits say the war’s death toll and humanitarian crisis — alongside simultaneous settler violence in the West Bank — are causing engaged Jews to question their faith
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Israel supporters observe a moment of silence as they attend a vigil outside McGill University in Montreal, Canada, on October, 7, 2024, to commemorate the victims of the October 7 massacre by Hamas on Israel. (Graham Hughes / AFP)
October 3, 2025, 8:05 am
Events worldwide to focus on healing, unity as Jews gather to mark Oct. 7 attacks
On 2nd anniversary of devastating Hamas-led atrocities that sparked the ongoing Gaza war, Diaspora organizers say memorials will be safe spaces to mourn together, free of politics
By Zev Stub
In 'Jew vs. Jew,' Samuel Freedman showed a community not so much assimilating away but imploding from within. (Author photo Gabriela Bhaskar via JTA)
September 9, 2025, 11:53 am
25 years after writing ‘Jew vs. Jew,’ Samuel Freedman sees new divisions in US Jewry
The catchy title of the journalist’s 2000 book referred to a community torn between tradition and modernity. Today it has new meaning as bigger rifts emerge over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
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