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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaks at an Election Night party on November 4, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images/AFP)
November 5, 2025, 9:25 pm
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey wins re-election, fending off socialist challenger
Somali-American Omar Fateh, a democratic socialist, fails to unseat Jewish Democrat Frey, who led city through turmoil of George Floyd’s death and subsequent protests
By AP
The building housing San Francisco Hillel graffitied with the word "Khaybar," which refers to an ancient battle between Arabs and Jews on the Arabian peninsula, alongside communist and anarchist symbols, December 2024. (Courtesy via JTA)
December 11, 2024, 5:18 am
SF Hillel graffitied with slogan about battle that ended in Muslim slaughter of Jews
Head of local Jewish group says assailants tried to break into Jewish center at San Francisco State University after spraying ‘Khaybar’ and ‘death to Western imperialism!’ graffiti
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Left to right: Dani Kogan, Deborah Greenblatt, Julian Voloj, Francil Tejada and Bradley T. Borden hold copies of 'We Are Brooklyn: Stories of Hope,' a comic book celebrating the diversity of the borough and of participants in the We Are All Brooklyn Fellowship Against Hate, November 18, 2024. (Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA)
November 29, 2024, 2:28 am
To fight hate, these Brooklyn-based nonprofit professionals wrote a comic book together
Six members of the We Are All Brooklyn Fellowship Against Hate tell their stories in a project initiated by the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York
By Jackie Hajdenberg
The Democratic Majority for Israel called out Nancy Kaufman, seen in January 2019, then retracted its tweet while acknowledging its error following a maelstrom of outraged calls by liberal Jewish groups. (Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images)
May 6, 2021, 2:46 am
Democratic melee as US pro-Israel group picks fight with longtime Jewish leader
Democratic Majority for Israel calls well-known progressive Nancy Kaufman an ‘enabler of antisemitism,’ before retracting after hailstorm of criticism from more liberal groups
By Ron Kampeas
Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, at the American Zionist Movement Washington Forum, December 12, 2018. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images via JTA)
May 1, 2021, 5:59 pm
Boston Jewish council votes to keep ZOA despite it ‘elevating white supremacism’
The right-wing Zionist Organization of America, lead by Morton Klein, will remain in Massachusetts-based JCRC despite allegations of racism
By Asaf Shalev
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) president Morton A. Klein (Joseph Savetsky/courtesy of ZOA)
April 15, 2021, 2:46 pm
ZOA to stay in Boston Jewish group despite ‘elevating white supremacist voices’
Internal report from US city’s leading Jewish coalition pans right-wing, pro-Israel group’s director Mort Klein, but concludes that organization can remain part of umbrella body
By Asaf Shalev
Young members of Jewish Voice for Peace protest Birthright. (Courtesy of Jewish Voice for Peace via JTA)
January 19, 2019, 3:45 am
Boston Jewish council bars members from working with anti-Zionist Jewish groups
Jewish Community Relations Council sets up showdown with a member, the Workmen’s Circle, which signed a statement by Jewish Voice for Peace, which supports BDS
By Josefin Dolsten
Participants in the National Walkout to protest gun violence marching toward the US Capitol, April 20, 2018. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images/via JTA)
May 1, 2018, 5:31 pm
On issues like gun control and refugees, Jewish organizations play it safe
Directors of the 125 JCRCs across the US are tasked with the challenge of finding consensus across an increasingly divided constituency
By Ben Sales
Musician Roger Waters performs during his 'Us + Them' tour at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA, on June 20, 2017. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images/AFP)
From the WebSeptember 8, 2017, 2:56 pm
Ahead of Roger Waters NY shows next week, JCRC launches aggressive campaign
NY Jewish Week: Former Pink Floyd frontman’s prominent BDS support includes anti-Semitic imagery and anti-Israel messages
Students at the Foxboro Regional Charter School in Massachusetts pose with a Holocaust-related mural in 2016, created through the school's Holocaust Stamps Project (Courtesy)
April 24, 2017, 5:47 pm
More than 9.2-million canceled stamps later, Holocaust postage project recognized in Boston
For 8 years, students at a Massachusetts charter school have collected stamps to learn about the Shoah — and push back on bullying
By Matt Lebovic
Ari Shavit attends the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center For Israel Studies 5th Annual Gala at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, in Beverly Hills, California, May 5, 2015. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
October 31, 2016, 8:36 pm
AIPAC cancels Ari Shavit events over sexual assault claims
Lobbying group distances itself from Israeli journalist accused by two women, drops November event in San Francisco
By JTA
The Indiana Statehouse on Saturday, March 28, 2015, (AP Photo/Rick Callahan)
March 30, 2015, 8:01 pm
Indiana’s new ‘religious freedom’ law: Good for the Jews?
Jewish community leaders, stars and businessmen are on the front lines condemning new bill for ‘legalizing discrimination.’ But does it?
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
J Street logo
July 23, 2014, 3:28 am
J Street explains pullout from Boston pro-Israel rally
Liberal Jewish organization says event didn’t address grieving for victims of both sides, emphasis on diplomatic solution
By JTA
Claims Conference representatives meet with German officials during Holocaust restitution negotiations in Israel in 2013. (photo credit: Courtesy Claims Conference)
June 20, 2014, 5:44 am
Claims Conference weighs shutting down vs. Holocaust education
Panel appointed after $57-million fraud scandal recommends that the organization shift its long-term focus to remembrance
By Uriel Heilman
Israeli start-up entrepreneurs at work at UpWest Lab's Silicon Valley facility (Courtesy)
June 11, 2014, 3:45 am
Anti-Semitic incidents disrupt Silicon Valley’s Jewish community
Local organizations and clergy concerned about bias in schools in ethnically diverse and affluent part of Bay Area
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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