With Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez suspending her campaign, state Rep. Francesca Hong, a Democratic Socialists of America member with a record of anti-Israel activism, and former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes have emerged as the Democratic Party’s leading candidates ahead of the Aug. 11 primary.
Rep. Jake Auchincloss accused President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu of breaking the compact underlying U.S. military assistance to Israel by launching the war against Iran.
“I want to maintain the dialogue and the conversation, because I think they need to work harder to try to figure out how to get more friends instead of creating more enemies,” the Washington Democrat said.
“The rules that they’ve been using to build these data centers were not intended for these kinds of data centers,” David Greenfield, of Met Council, told JNS. “Now they’re happening very frequently, and they’re having unintended consequences.”
Preliminary data for 2026 suggests a volume of antisemitism that is second only to 2023, during which the Oct. 7 attacks occurred, B’nai Brith Canada said.
Islamabad is becoming a node linking Washington, Tehran, Riyadh and Ankara, bringing a nuclear-armed state that has never recognized Israel deeper into the strategic environment in which Israel operates.
The Turkish foreign minister’s statements against the Jewish state reached a new peak last week. How dangerous is his rise to the summit of power in Ankara?
In a week when the majority of House Democrats abandoned the Jewish state, the vice president served as a reminder that the GOP’s lockstep pro-Israel stand is not set in stone.
“The extension of daylight saving time will create an extreme hardship on observant Jews,” Rabbi A.D. Motzen, of Agudah, told JNS. “It would be extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible, to arrive on time for a job and will affect the start time of our schools.”
The Anti-Defamation League told JNS that “the letter contains explicit, threatening language targeting Jewish people and relies on vile antisemitic tropes that have historically been used to incite violence.”
“The slogan combines the Arabic word for ‘let’s go’ and Intifada, terror campaigns that killed thousands of people,” according to the Combat Antisemitism Movement.
“I knew I was gonna be fighting antisemitism,” Inna Vernikov, a Republican, told JNS. “I didn’t see politicians doing that on a big scale. I just saw a lot of pandering on both sides.”
A years-long effort identified and digitized the names of 9,100 Jews buried in Krakow’s historic Podgorze cemetery before it was destroyed by the Nazis.
“Contemporary Antisemitism 2026" explores ways that can influence how cultures identify, understand, and confront anti-Jewish and anti-Israel sentiment.
Day Two of the “Contemporary Antisemitism 2026” conference in Haifa explored how Jewish belonging is increasingly contested across digital platforms, popular culture and minority movements.
Ancient background matters because it reminds the world of something too often forgotten: Jews lived, traded, prayed and built families across the Arab and Muslim world for centuries.
With Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez suspending her campaign, state Rep. Francesca Hong, a Democratic Socialists of America member with a record of anti-Israel activism, and former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes have emerged as the Democratic Party’s leading candidates ahead of the Aug. 11 primary.
Rep. Jake Auchincloss accused President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu of breaking the compact underlying U.S. military assistance to Israel by launching the war against Iran.
“I want to maintain the dialogue and the conversation, because I think they need to work harder to try to figure out how to get more friends instead of creating more enemies,” the Washington Democrat said.
“The rules that they’ve been using to build these data centers were not intended for these kinds of data centers,” David Greenfield, of Met Council, told JNS. “Now they’re happening very frequently, and they’re having unintended consequences.”
Preliminary data for 2026 suggests a volume of antisemitism that is second only to 2023, during which the Oct. 7 attacks occurred, B’nai Brith Canada said.
Islamabad is becoming a node linking Washington, Tehran, Riyadh and Ankara, bringing a nuclear-armed state that has never recognized Israel deeper into the strategic environment in which Israel operates.
The Turkish foreign minister’s statements against the Jewish state reached a new peak last week. How dangerous is his rise to the summit of power in Ankara?
In a week when the majority of House Democrats abandoned the Jewish state, the vice president served as a reminder that the GOP’s lockstep pro-Israel stand is not set in stone.
“The extension of daylight saving time will create an extreme hardship on observant Jews,” Rabbi A.D. Motzen, of Agudah, told JNS. “It would be extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible, to arrive on time for a job and will affect the start time of our schools.”
The Anti-Defamation League told JNS that “the letter contains explicit, threatening language targeting Jewish people and relies on vile antisemitic tropes that have historically been used to incite violence.”
“The slogan combines the Arabic word for ‘let’s go’ and Intifada, terror campaigns that killed thousands of people,” according to the Combat Antisemitism Movement.
“I knew I was gonna be fighting antisemitism,” Inna Vernikov, a Republican, told JNS. “I didn’t see politicians doing that on a big scale. I just saw a lot of pandering on both sides.”
A years-long effort identified and digitized the names of 9,100 Jews buried in Krakow’s historic Podgorze cemetery before it was destroyed by the Nazis.
“Contemporary Antisemitism 2026" explores ways that can influence how cultures identify, understand, and confront anti-Jewish and anti-Israel sentiment.
Day Two of the “Contemporary Antisemitism 2026” conference in Haifa explored how Jewish belonging is increasingly contested across digital platforms, popular culture and minority movements.
Ancient background matters because it reminds the world of something too often forgotten: Jews lived, traded, prayed and built families across the Arab and Muslim world for centuries.