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Yair Rosenberg, who writes The Atlantic's 'Deep Shtetl' newsletter, was named to a new religion beat at The New York Times focused on Jewish American life. (Yair Rosenberg; Adam Jones/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
June 30, 2026, 7:47 am
New York Times hires Atlantic’s Yair Rosenberg to cover Jewish American life
Beat is NYT’s first dedicated to Jews, in city with world’s largest Jewish population; paper has complex relationship with many Jewish readers, especially after Oct. 7; Rosenberg has critiqued some coverage
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Journalist and author of 'French Victims of Hamas,' Rachel Binhas, in Paris, June 2025. (Robert Sarner)
October 9, 2025, 3:01 am
Journalist explores France’s eerily telling response to its citizens’ murders on Oct. 7
With ‘French Victims of Hamas: Their Story, Our Silence,’ Rachel Binhas shines a light on local victims of the slaughter and her country’s disturbing reactions to the tragedy
By Robert Sarner
US journalist Bari Weiss during an interview with ex-MK Einat Wilf (not in picture), at the Jaffa Hotel Chapel on January 28, 2024. (Tel Aviv International Salon)
September 5, 2025, 8:59 am
Paramount said prepping to buy Free Press for $100m, give Bari Weiss senior role at CBS
Ex-NYT editor, known for criticizing far-left, reportedly sought for news role after media giant’s $8 billion merger with Skydance; neither side confirms agreement
By Luke Tress and ToI Staff
Ivo Herzog, left, son of journalist Vladimir Herzog who was killed in 1975 during the military dictatorship, accompanies Congressman Romario in Rio de Janeiro, April 1, 2013. (AP/Felipe Dana)
June 27, 2025, 4:28 am
Brazil agrees to compensate family of Jewish journalist killed by military 50 years ago
Vladimir Herzog, who fled Nazi persecution in Yugoslavia, was detained by Brazilian intelligence agents in 1975 and murdered, with the government falsely claiming he hanged himself
By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA
Jeffrey Klein leading the seder in 1990. (Courtesy of Klein Family)
March 25, 2025, 8:57 am
Jeffrey Klein, Mother Jones co-founder led by Jewish values, dies at 77
Former editor-in-chief of progressive magazine traveled to USSR to meet refuseniks, saw ‘through line’ between oppression of Jews and his desire to investigate corruption
By Grace Gilson
Max Frankel working as The New York Times' Moscow correspondent in 1959. (Ben Martin/Getty Images)
March 24, 2025, 10:35 pm
Max Frankel, Jewish New York Times executive editor who fled the Nazis, dies at 94
Longtime American journalist swayed the Times into publishing the Pentagon Papers, won Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Nixon’s first visit to China
By Grace Gilson
This screenshot from the trailer for 'Gaza: How to Survive A War Zone' shows narrator Abdullah Al-Yazouri, whose father is a Hamas deputy minister. (YouTube screenshot; used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 7, 2025, 7:06 am
UK journalist who blew whistle on BBC Gaza documentary: ‘I caught them in bed with Hamas’
David Collier, who swiftly revealed the film’s narrator to be ‘Hamas royalty,’ believes the episode could be a turning point for an outlet perennially accused of anti-Israel bias
By Bart Schut
Then-Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, left, walks with US president John F. Kennedy at the residence of the US ambassador in Vienna, Austria on June 3, 1961. (AP Photo, File)
March 4, 2025, 2:32 pm
Journalist who had Khrushchev’s ear as nuclear war loomed says Putin wouldn’t have caved to US
When 94-year-old veteran foreign correspondent Marvin Kalb speaks, world leaders should pay attention. His new memoir, ‘A Different Russia,’ serves as both warning and plea
By Mordechai I. Twersky
Rabbi Dov Linzer and Abigail Pogrebin, study partners and co-authors of 'It Takes Two to Torah' (Lorin Klaris)
September 15, 2024, 4:33 pm
What happens when a seemingly odd couple becomes friends and Torah study buddies?
In their new book, Reform journalist Abigail Pogrebin and Orthodox Rabbi Dov Linzer show genuine warmth and respect for one another while not dancing around their differences
By Renee Ghert-Zand
US journalist Evan Gershkovich, accused of espionage, looks out from inside a glass defendant's cage prior to a hearing in Yekaterinburg's Sverdlovsk Regional Court on June 26, 2024. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP)
August 1, 2024, 1:50 pm
Major Russia-US prisoner swap, including Evan Gershkovich, could be underway
Jewish-American journalist could be released alongside artists, activists and former senior staffers of late dissident Alexei Navalny
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Head of Shalhevet High School Rabbi David Block speaks at the class of 2023 graduation. (Screenshot via Vimeo/via JTA)
June 13, 2024, 7:39 pm
LA Jewish day school censors two student newspaper articles on Israel-Hamas war
Young journalists from the Shalhevet High School’s periodical made to remove issues from neighborhood shops after principal retracts stories that included anti-Israel perspectives
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Illustrative: Anti-Israel demonstrators protest Israel's existence in New York City, October 8, 2023, following the October 7 Hamas atrocities and before Israel launched a military operation in the Gaza Strip. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
June 4, 2024, 2:54 pm
After Oct. 7, UK journalist Hadley Freeman believes ‘the progressive left hates Jews’
The New York-born writer comes out with a new essay on the antisemitism emerging after the Hamas atrocities in Israel, and how it’s rooted in a hypocritical and myopic ideology
By Robert Philpot
In this photo released by the Moscow City Court Press Service, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court in Moscow, Russia, March 26, 2024. (Moscow City Court Press Service via AP)
March 29, 2024, 1:43 pm
One year on, family of jailed journalist Evan Gershkovich vows to ‘continue fighting’
Wall Street Journal reporter was detained a year ago by Russian authorities on espionage charges, which critics say are baseless and politically motivated
By Maria Danilova
French TV host Ruth Elkrief delivers a speech during the NextRadioTV group press conference in Paris, on September 2, 2015. (Thomas Samson / AFP)
March 8, 2024, 4:34 am
Why French journalist Ruth Elkrief ‘came out’ as Jewish after October 7
The veteran newswoman landed in the middle of France’s debate on antisemitism and Islamophobia – and thanks to fallout from her comments, she’s also landed under police protection
By Shira Li Bartov
US journalist Evan Gershkovich, arrested on espionage charges, stands inside a defendants' cage before a hearing to consider an appeal on his extended detention at The Moscow City Court in Moscow on June 22, 2023. (Photo by Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP)
September 7, 2023, 5:57 pm
Rosh Hashanah letter-writing campaign launched for US journalist detained in Russia
Evan Gershkovich, 31, a Wall Street Journal reporter and ​​son of Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union, has been in jail since March on charges of espionage
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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