Politics
Orthodox rioter was not a left-wing agitator, despite claims on Twitter
Right-wing figures on Twitter, including Donald Trump Jr., are promoting the idea that Aaron Mostofsky, the Orthodox Jewish man who joined the Capitol mob…
Bay Area
Bay Area orgs urge Congress to protect ‘targeted Americans’
Jewish organizations, leaders and lawmakers from the Bay Area have signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect “targeted Americans” after the…
World
Why people are fighting over a definition of antisemitism, explained
When is it antisemitic to criticize Israel? Antisemitism signifies hatred of Jews and the ways that hatred is perpetuated through age-old conspiracy…
Israel
Fake journalists, possibly Iranian, spread disinformation online
Three fake journalists who seeded dozens of anti-Israel and anti-American stories on social media may have been part of an Iranian disinformation plot, a…
California
Q&A: ADL sent a warning days before the Capitol riot
Joanna Mendelson is the Los Angeles-based associate director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, which monitors extremist activity, hate…
U.S.
Q&A: A Jewish photographer who captured the Capitol mob
When Lloyd Wolf heard the long blast from a shofar at the Jan. 6 Stop the Steal protest, the photographer was determined to find the source. He found two…
World
Shadows of the Inquisition at Portugal's first Holocaust museum
Portugal is set to open its first Holocaust museum, built in the northern city of Porto by members of a Jewish community that was founded by descendants…
U.S.
Conflict over Capitol mob coverage roils Orthodox Jewish news media
On Jan. 7, one day after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, the 5 Towns Jewish Times, a weekly newspaper catering to the large Orthodox community in…
Bay Area
Lessons from Weimar Germany
Unlike scores of op-ed writers and political pundits four years ago, UC Berkeley Jewish history professor John Efron resisted early comparisons between…