Tag Archives: U.S. News
Jewish groups grateful, pensive after living hostages freed from Gaza
U.S. Jewish organizations issued statements expressing gratitude for the liberated living hostages on Monday morning, while also noting that Hamas has yet to return remains of people whom it murdered and that more work remains to ensure that the terror group can never again repeat an attack like Oct. 7. Read more » »
Fill key State Department roles, Jewish groups tell Senate leaders
The Jewish Federations of North America and Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish organizations led 13 other Jewish groups in a letter to Senate leaders on Tuesday, asking the upper chamber to confirm Trump administration nominees for two key U.S. State Department positions.The groups asked Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D. Read more » »
UCLA reportedly raked in millions of federal dollars for diversity, anti-Israel programs
The University of California, Los Angeles has used millions of tax dollars to fund its diversity, equity and inclusion programs and to support faculty members who have made “radical” anti-Israel comments, according to an Aug. 13 report from the nonprofit Open the Books. Read more » »
House passes ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ budget on Thursday in a party-line vote.U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that the bill would “set the stage for the coming golden age” under U.S. President Donald Trump. Read more » »
Wikipedia citing anti-Israel group ‘outrageous, not surprising,’ say nonprofits the site shuns
The widely-used online encyclopedia Wikipedia deems the Anti-Defamation League and NGO Monitor to be “generally unreliable” sources to cite when discussing Israel and the Palestinians, but it maintains that an organization with a documented history of antisemitism, including lauding the Oct. Read more » »
At NYC mayor primary debate, Cuomo says he’d visit Israel, which Mamdani won’t say is ‘Jewish state’
With five minutes to spare in the two-hour New York City Democratic mayoral primary debate, which NBC carried on Wednesday night, the candidates were asked what their first foreign trip would be as mayor. Read more » »
Increase national security funding to $1b, US Jewish groups urge federal gov
Nearly 45 American Jewish groups called on the federal government to increase the annual funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program dramatically—to $1 billion, from $274.5 million in 2024. Read more » »
Congressional human rights commission focuses on rise in Jew-hatred
Antisemitism has exploded around the world and is becoming normalized, a panel of experts said on Tuesday at a congressional hearing of the bipartisan Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission.“The slow-burning sickness of antisemitism can be seen right here,” said Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), co-chair of the commission. Read more » »
After meeting pope, US Jewish leaders do not expect substantial changes from Vatican on Israel
American Jewish leaders, who attended Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural Mass in Rome on Sunday and met with the pontiff at the Vatican the following day, are optimistic about the future of Jewish-Catholic relations. Read more » »
Decades after his death, Ben-Zion’s relatively unknown Jewish art is timely, experts say
A private tour of the former Manhattan home and studio of the Jewish artist Ben-Zion presents as the artistic version of an ice-cream headache. Read more » »
