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Graham Platner, Democratic candidate for US Senate, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left, join hands at an event in Orono, Maine, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
July 11, 2026, 4:57 am
Why US politics feels like it’s all about Israel — and what that does and doesn’t mean for Jews
Israel has become the perfect wedge issue for progressive Democrats. That’s left many US Jews in an uncomfortable spot, regardless of how they feel about the Jewish state’s actions
By Ben Sales
Texas state Rep. James Talarico speaks during a rally to protest against redistricting hearings at the Texas Capitol, July 24, 2025, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
March 24, 2026, 6:04 am
Can James Talarico’s faith-forward politics invigorate the US Jewish religious left?
Texas Democrat brings the language of religion, and a sharp critique of Israel, to his battle for the Senate and against the Christian right
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Rabbi Tamar Magill-Grimm, of the Conservative Beth Jacob Congregation in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, speaks out with other faith leaders against Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the Twin Cities at a press conference at a Lutheran church in St. Paul, January 20, 2026. Local cantors Tamar Havilio and Rachel Stock Spilker are behind Magill-Grimm to the right. (Courtesy of TC Jewfolk via JTA)
January 23, 2026, 2:33 pm
Invoking the Torah, Minnesota Jews are mobilizing against ICE operations
Jewish groups of all denominations opposed to the aggressive surge in immigration enforcement sign open letters, help plan protests and aim to mend frayed interfaith partnerships
By Andrew Lapin
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
Hannah and Ally Karpel-Pomerantz met as rabbinical school classmates at Hebrew Union College. They are set to be ordained at the end of the school year. (Courtesy via JTA)
November 23, 2025, 3:44 am
Surging LGBTQ enrollment in Jewish seminaries signals ‘astounding’ shift in US rabbinate
A new study provides empirical evidence for a trend many have seen coming for years, as new models and broken barriers bring an influx of leadership from a once-marginalized population
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Rabbi Arthur Waskow of the Shalom Center in Philadelphia leaves the podium at the National Press Club in Washington, August 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
October 21, 2025, 2:27 am
Rabbi Arthur Waskow, longtime progressive US activist and author, dies at 92
From Philadelphia, Waskow spent over six decades championing progressive causes like civil rights, economic injustice and climate change through a spiritual Jewish lens
By Ben Harris
UK Green party leader Zack Polanski in 2022. (Rob Browne/ Public domain)
July 13, 2025, 7:05 am
This Jewish non-Zionist wants to be the UK Green party’s answer to far-right populism
Zack Polanski is running a bid to lead the fiercely anti-Israel progressive party – and he’s using populist icon Nigel Farage as an inexplicable role model
By Robert Philpot
Dozens of protesters arrive at San Francisco International Airports after border officials deny entry to two Palestinian activists who arrived with valid visas for a speaking tour. (Courtesy of Chase Carter/Center for Jewish Nonviolence via JTA)
June 14, 2025, 5:28 pm
Bay Area synagogue mobilizes for two Palestinian visitors detained at airport
Cousins from Masafer Yatta face deportation after arriving on valid visas for awareness mission sponsored by local synagogue; authorities revoked their visas for unknown reasons
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Lilly Filler (center), chair of the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust, accepts a state proclamation from Governor Henry McMaster recognizing the Holocaust during an event commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, January 27, 2025, in Columbia, South Carolina. Filler would later cut a speech by a rabbi from the broadcast. (Screenshot via YouTube/ via JTA)
February 4, 2025, 4:59 pm
South Carolina Holocaust council roils after chair truncates rabbi’s ‘political’ remarks
At least one member resigns when part of a speech attacking contemporary policies – including book bans and denying aid to refugees – is cut from a TV broadcast of a memorial event
By Andrew Lapin
A group of people in Jerusalem mark Israel's 75th Independence Day with a ceremonial reading of the Declaration of Independence, on April 26, 2023 (Credit: Mabua).
May 14, 2024, 9:01 am
Emerging Independence Day ritual inspires unity and gratitude in shadow of October 7
Reading the Declaration of Independence together in public bridges between secular and religious Israelis in a new-old tradition that can be adapted to any citizen’s faith
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Illustrative: Activists from the Workers Circle and Black Voters Matter on their way to a protest outside the White House in 2021. (Workers Circle via JTA)
December 12, 2023, 1:03 am
As war splits US progressives, Jewish and Black groups unite on voters’ rights
In the aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities, many American Jews say they feel abandoned by peers on the left, but the Workers Circle is putting all aside to support the cause
By Luke Tress
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