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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 428

Asaf Elia-Shalev

Delegates to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, April 20, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 4, 2024, 8:47 pm
Allegations of Christian influence surface ahead of World Zionist Congress election
As Diaspora Jews prepare for vote that will influence funding of Jewish causes and oversight of Israel’s ‘national institutions,’ a group is accused of misrepresentation
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
A Shavuot parade at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, a Hazon-operated complex in Falls Village, Conn. (Courtesy of Pearlstone via JTA)
November 28, 2024, 6:08 am
Schusterman family, whose fortune comes from oil, makes 1st grant to climate group
Newly released 2023 tax disclosures show that foundation led by oil drilling company gave a $300,000 donation to Jewish environmental organization Adamah
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
The US Capitol in Washington, DC, on July 23, 2024. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)
November 22, 2024, 12:16 am
More than 55 US Jewish groups slam terrorism bill that could threaten nonprofits
As the House prepares to vote on the proposed law, organizations say its powers to revoke tax-exempt status of charities accused of funding terror are too broad and can be abused
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
A picture taken at the Tokyo Game Show on September 21, 2018, shows the logo of Twitch. (Martin Bureau/AFP)
November 19, 2024, 5:09 am
Streaming platform Twitch bans use of ‘Zionist’ as coded slur for Jews and Israelis
Live-streaming service announces policy change as it faces increased scrutiny, with a Democratic lawmaker accusing the Amazon-owned platform of ’emboldening’ antisemitism
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
A view of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. (Gary Sexton Photography via JTA)
November 15, 2024, 7:58 am
San Francisco’s Jewish museum to take ‘sabbatical’ amid financial struggles
Hit by fall in visits and donations, museum says it will lay off two-thirds of its staff and attempt a rethink and revamp
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth arrives at Trump Tower on November 29, 2016, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
November 15, 2024, 6:38 am
Trump’s nominee to lead Pentagon has multiple Christian and Crusader-inspired tattoos
Pete Hegseth also has Jesus’ name in Hebrew inked on his arm, a tattoo he has recalled getting in Bethlehem: ‘Israel, Christianity and my faith are things I care deeply about’
By jacob gurvis and Asaf Elia-Shalev
Illustrative: Immigrants from France arrive at Ben Gurion airport in central Israel on July 10, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
November 14, 2024, 6:29 am
Wartime budget would slash benefits for new immigrants, amid global antisemitism spike
Government proposes ending financial assistance to anyone with over NIS 500,000 in declared assets, though payments for those under that threshold would go up 10%
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Rep. David Kustoff, one of the Jewish co-sponsors of a bill prohibiting nonprofits from providing support to terrorist organizations, at a news conference flanked by Israeli Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, left, and Rep. Anthony D'Esposito, right, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, February 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
November 12, 2024, 10:52 pm
US House set to vote on bill targeting nonprofits accused of supporting terrorism
Proposed law would streamline government’s ability to strip tax-exempt status from charities suspected of funneling money to terror groups; critics fear it can be abused
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Rep. Adam Schiff talks to the media after voting at McCambridge Recreation Center in Burbank in the race for US Senate that he ultimately won, November 5, 2024. (Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG via JTA)
November 6, 2024, 7:45 am
Trump antagonist Adam Schiff wins California senate seat
In expected result, Jewish Democrat wins seat previously held by Dianne Feinstein; currently a member of House of Representatives, he helped preside over Trump impeachments
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
FILE - Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus appears on "Cavuto: Coast to Coast," with anchor Neil Cavuto, on the Fox Business Network, in New York, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
November 6, 2024, 1:15 am
Bernie Marcus, Home Depot cofounder who gave to Republicans and Israel, dies at 95
‘Israel lost one of its greatest friends,’ says head of Israel Democracy Institute, which Marcus helped found; billionaire was also known for donating to causes like health care
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump wraps up a campaign rally at J.S. Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, November 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
November 5, 2024, 1:30 am
Why Trump is being compared to the obscure biblical king Jehu on the Christian right
Some pastors are urging their followers to think of the Republican candidate as a present-day manifestation of the monarch who violently killed the evil Jezebel
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Former US president Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, October 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
October 30, 2024, 11:27 pm
Former ADL chief Abe Foxman blasts group for muted response to Trump’s MSG rally
American Jewish groups afraid to anger ex-president should he win again, Foxman charges, after ‘bizarre’ statement by ADL about campaign event that avoids naming Trump himself
By Asaf Elia-Shalev and Ron Kampeas
Illustrative: Police patrol as workers clean up anti-Israel graffiti at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus after police evicted pro-Palestinian protesters, May 2, 2024. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP)
October 24, 2024, 8:36 am
Task force says UCLA let antisemitism fester amid pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests
Report says Jewish and Israeli students, faculty and staff were assaulted and threatened; panel says administrators should have taken more action against campus rules violations
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump embraces Miriam Adelson at an event marking one year since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, October 7, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
October 17, 2024, 5:43 am
Miriam Adelson gives $100 million to Trump campaign, making good on reported pledge
Gift from the prolific pro-Israel donor is the largest among new batch of major spending disclosures, eclipses the $75 million that Elon Musk recently gave to a pro-Trump PAC
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
A sign for Israel's Jewish National Fund is seen defaced, in Toronto, Canada, October 9, 2008. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images/JTA)
October 16, 2024, 3:25 pm
Canadian crackdown on Israel-linked charities raises concerns in Jewish community
The tax authority’s revocation of charitable status for JNF Canada and others has reverberated inside and outside the country – though the motives behind it are disputed
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
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