Israel
The Jewish world reacts to Ben & Jerry’s settlement boycott
Kosher supermarkets are rethinking their inventory. Politicians are emptying their freezers. And the foreign minister of Israel is vowing to get involved…
Israel
Ben & Jerry’s ice cream announces boycott of West Bank settlements
Following pressure from pro-Palestinian activists, Ben & Jerry’s announced Monday that it would stop selling ice cream in “Occupied Palestinian…
U.S.
As more Jews call Israel ‘apartheid,’ Jewish orgs struggle to fight trend
Sharon Nazarian has a theory about why a recent Washington, D.C. rally against antisemitism struggled to reach as large an audience as organizers had…
Sports
Second Orthodox baseball player drafted into the MLB in 2 days
It has now become a doubly historic Major League Baseball draft. The Washington Nationals selected Elie Kligman with their final and 20th round pick on…
Sports
Olympic baseball puts Israel's US players in touch with Jewish identity
In May, as the latest violent Israel-Gaza conflict heated up, Ty Kelly did something he could never do in any other professional baseball dugout: He…
U.S.
Survey: A quarter of US Jews agree that Israel ‘is an apartheid state’
A survey of U.S. Jewish voters taken after the Israel-Gaza conflict finds that a sizable minority believe some of the harshest criticisms of Israel,…
California
Is there more to L.A. restaurant attack than meets the eye?
Xavier James Pabon is a 30-year-old Puerto Rican father who decided to join a protest against Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip after his boss showed him…
U.S.
IDF rescue team leaves Surfside to salutes and serenades
The Israeli military team that assisted in the search and rescue operation at the collapsed building in Surfside, Florida left on Saturday after receiving…
U.S.
A Capitol Hill rally, agreement on antisemitism ends at Israel
Several thousand people spent a sweltering afternoon in front of the U.S. Capitol at a rally on Sunday that denounced antisemitism as un-American and made…