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Evan Gershkovich. Source: Twitter.

Thousands of letters to Evan Gershkovich pour in from 21 countries

Former Soviet dissident and Israeli politician Natan Sharansky also sent his personal greeting for the Jewish New Year.

September 14, 2023

Evan Gershkovich. Source: Twitter.

Federation runs campaign to write Rosh Hashanah letters to Evan Gershkovich

Lawyers for “The Wall Street Journal” reporter, imprisoned in Russia on espionage charges, will deliver them.

September 8, 2023

Moisey Katsman, a disabled, homebound Holocaust survivor, enjoys apples and honey delivered in advance of Rosh Hashanah 2023. He is one of thousands of the country's neediest Jews receiving New Year food packages from the American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in partnership with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, Claims Conference and Jewish Federations of North America. Photo by Misha Kovalev.

Groups deliver New Year staples to thousands of Jews in Ukraine

Hundreds of the neediest Jews across the former Soviet Union will also receive such packages for the holidays, starting before Rosh Hashanah.

September 7, 2023

A mushroom cloud, the result of the atom bomb the United States exploded over Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945, to prompt the end of World War II. Credit: Everett Collection/Shutterstock.

The trouble with films that romanticize American Communists

The epic hit “Oppenheimer” and the new documentary “A Compassionate Spy” illustrate the moral blindness of treating Stalinism as a reasonable choice.

Jonathan S. Tobin

August 28, 2023

From left: Presidential envoy to the Northwestern Federal District Ilya Klebanov, Chief Sanitary Inspector Gennady Onishchenko, Leningrad Region Governor Valery Serdyukov, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Concord factory director Yevgeny Prigozhin, Sept. 20, 2010. Credit: Government of the Russian Federation via Wikimedia Commons.

No, Prigozhin was not Jewish

In a world in which antisemitism is still rife, such inaccurate headlines are unhelpful, to put it mildly.

August 28, 2023

Vivek Ramaswamy speaking with attendees at the 2022 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Arizona on Dec. 19, 2022. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons.

The Ramaswamy threat

The Republican presidential candidate appears not to know who America’s friends and enemies are.

August 22, 2023

A menorah from the Phanagoria synagogue. Credit: Oleg Deripaska Volnoe Delo Foundation.

Second Temple-era synagogue unearthed in Black Sea region

The Jewish house of worship was part of the ancient Greek city of Phanagoria.

August 16, 2023

The flags of Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United States. Credit: OnePixelStudio/Shutterstock.

What deal are the Americans and Saudis negotiating?

If Washington wants to maintain its position as the superpower in the region, scaling back China’s inroads and containing Russia, it needs to provide its spurned regional allies, Israel and Saudi Arabia, with certain guarantees.

August 9, 2023

Paris Olympics 2024. Credit: International Olympic Committee.

Like Russia, the Olympics must restrict Iran

If politics are being brought into sports, the world needs to be consistent.

July 31, 2023