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Shira Li Bartov

Jurgen Stroop watches his troops raze the Warsaw Ghetto. (CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images via JTA)
August 20, 2026, 12:29 am
Once censored, a Nazi commander’s death-row confession is now out in English
‘Conversations with an Executioner’ gives firsthand account of the rise of Jurgen Stroop, a senior Nazi who led killings of over 50,000 Jews and destruction of Warsaw Ghetto
By Shira Li Bartov
Rep. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during an address marking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani first 100 days in office at the Knockdown Center, Sunday, April 12, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
August 11, 2026, 5:57 am
Bernie Sanders urges Democrats to ban ‘corrupt’ AIPAC spending in primaries
Jewish progressive slams pro-Israel lobby for considering funding Republican nominee for Michigan Senate seat after failing to tank Abdul El-Sayed’s primary race
By Shira Li Bartov
Uncommitted National Movement organizers Abbas Alawieh, right, and Lexis Zeidan, speak to the media on November 6, 2024, in Dearborn, Michigan. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
August 6, 2026, 7:55 pm
‘Uncommitted’ founder who pushed Dems to vote against Biden over Gaza wins local primary
Abbas Alawieh captures Democratic nomination for Michigan state Senate seat without making anti-Israel stance central to campaign; says he recently met with former VP Kamala Harris
By Shira Li Bartov
Michigan state Rep. Donavan McKinney, D-Detroit, waves to the crowd during a campaign rally for Michigan Democratic US Senate primary candidate Abdul El-Sayed, July 18, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)
August 5, 2026, 8:59 pm
Anti-Israel Michigan state rep. McKinney defeats sympathetic incumbent in US House primary
Donavan McKinney, who has pledged to cut military aid to the Jewish state and criticized ‘genocide’ in Gaza, wins against AIPAC-sponsored opponent Shri Thanedar
By Shira Li Bartov
Illustrative: Children play at a public school in San Francisco, California, August 30, 2022. (AP/Eric Risberg)
July 30, 2026, 6:49 pm
US court dismisses free speech challenge to California’s school antisemitism law
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee claimed legislation was unconstitutionally vague and discriminatory, but federal judge says there is no evidence of free speech infringements
By Shira Li Bartov
Illustrative photo of a young man reading from a Torah scroll (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 29, 2026, 6:47 am
Over a dozen Torah scrolls stolen from synagogue in Paris suburb
President of local Jewish community association says theft was carried out by ‘professional team,’ notes ‘nothing else was stolen apart from Torah items of immeasurable value’
By Shira Li Bartov
Psoy Korolenko, left, and Anna Shternshis, right, collaborated on "Yiddish Glory: The Silenced Songs of World War II." (Photo and design by Dan Rosenberg via JTA)
July 18, 2026, 10:45 am
Lost Holocaust music, nearly erased by Stalin, goes on tour in Asia
Tour through Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing plays Yiddish music rescued by Moisei Beregovsky, a Soviet Jewish ethnomusicologist, and rediscovered in the 1990s
By Shira Li Bartov
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas speaks with the media as she arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, July 13, 2026. (Marius Burgelman/AP)
July 14, 2026, 9:47 pm
European Union seeks to advance trade ban on Israeli settlements
Foreign ministers debated various measures, but outright ban had the most support, EU policy chief Kaja Kallas says; opinions differ on approval needed for stricter sanctions
By Shira Li Bartov
French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during the the induction ceremony at the Pantheon for late French historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch and his wife Simonne Vidal, in Paris, France, June 23, 2026. (Alice Sacco/Pool Photo via AP)
June 27, 2026, 4:21 pm
Jewish resistance hero’s French Panthéon entry sparks row over far right’s use of his legacy
Marc Bloch, historian and fighter executed by the Nazis, referenced by head of National Rally party, whose founders include a Holocaust denier and member of the Waffen-SS
By Shira Li Bartov
Martin Reichardt, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's chairman for the state of Saxony-Anhalt, speaks at the AfD's federal party congress at the trade fair in Magdeburg, eastern Germany on July 28, 2023. (Photo by Ronny HARTMANN / AFP)
June 27, 2026, 8:16 am
German far-right leader appears to make ‘Hitler salute’ in photo as party surges
2020 photo shows AFD lawmaker Martin Reichardt raising his left arm as another man kneels before him, apparently while applying to join party and calling Reichardt ‘Mein Führer’
By Shira Li Bartov
Adrian Boafo, a Maryland state delegate and Democratic candidate for US Congress talks with supporters at the "AmeriPac Bull Roast," June 12, 2026, in Mitchellville, Maryland. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
June 24, 2026, 7:44 pm
AIPAC-backed Adrian Boafo wins Maryland primary, as other Democrats turn on lobby group
The pro-Israel Boafo, protege of incumbent Congressman Steny Hoyer, beats out crowded field, vows to ‘strengthen the US-Israel alliance’ and mobilize aid to Palestinians
By Shira Li Bartov
Public Defender Eli Northrup (left) and Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay (Photo by Joseph Strauss and courtesy photo via JTA)
June 24, 2026, 2:03 am
NY primary between rabbi, Jewish lawyer serves as referendum on Mamdani and buffer zones
Eli Northrup has suggested that barring protests outside houses of worship is unconstitutional, while Stephanie Ruskay says doing so is necessary ‘in the world we actually live in’
By Shira Li Bartov
US Representative Mike Lawler, a Republican from New York, speaks at an event with President Donald Trump at Rockland Community College, May 22, 2026, in Suffern, New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
June 24, 2026, 1:29 am
Pro-Israel Democrats battle to take on vulnerable GOP House member Mike Lawler
Frontrunners in race to represent heavily Jewish swing district in New York include a military veteran and a local lawmaker who has highlighted her Jewish identity
By Shira Li Bartov
DC Council member Janeese Lewis George speaks to the crowd during an election night party at the Howard Theatre, June 16, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
June 17, 2026, 11:51 pm
Democratic socialist who accuses Israel of genocide leads DC mayoral primary
Janeese Lewis George says she will meet with groups that don’t share values, adding pro-Palestinian advocacy and ‘commitment against antisemitism’ do not conflict
By Shira Li Bartov
Participants in the Miszpucha Foundation trip for Polish Jewish emigrants and their descendants have lunch at the Jewish Community Center in Warsaw, Poland. (Adam de Kaminski via JTA)
June 13, 2026, 3:54 pm
13,000 Jews were driven out of Poland in 1968. Now, some are returning to tell their story
Decades after anti-Zionist purge virtually decimated what was left of post-Holocaust Jewish life, government-funded trip brings emigrants back for reunion with those who remained
By Shira Li Bartov
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