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Newly arrived South Africans listen to U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar (right) deliver welcome statements in a hangar near Washington Dulles International Airport on May 12, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

South Africa’s chief rabbi supports Trump — but not his Afrikaner refugee program

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov May 14, 2025May 14, 2025
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tours CECOT, the draconian El Salvadoran prison, with El Salvador Minister of Justice and Public Security Gustavo Villatoro, March 26, 2025. (DHS/Tia Dufour)
Posted inOpinion

The Yom HaShoah lesson we desperately need to remember under Trump

Tamar Manasseh by Tamar Manasseh April 23, 2025April 23, 2025
A 1952 editorial cartoon distributed by  JTA that appeared in the Jewish Bulletin, the former name of this publication.
Posted inFrom the Archives

The 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act put ‘Jewish’ labels on visas

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 22, 2025April 28, 2025
Sarah Resnick (right), a Jewish woman from New York, moved to Winnipeg in summer 2024 over concerns about the American political climate. (Courtesy)
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Eyeing an escape route in the Trump era, these American Jews are moving to Canada

by Andrew Lapin April 16, 2025April 16, 2025
Stephen Miller in 2016 (Wikimedia/Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0)
Posted inOpinion

Stephen Miller’s cavalier cruelty misses the whole point of Passover

Rabbi Jay Michaelson by Rabbi Jay Michaelson April 9, 2025April 9, 2025
Migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border on the day President Joe Biden signed a new executive order restricting entry for asylum seekers, June 4, 2024, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (Photo/JTA/David Peinado/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Some Jewish groups protest Biden’s executive order on immigration, but others are staying silent

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis June 6, 2024
Man looks through hole in a wall
Posted inOpinion

Our history and values compel us to speak out for asylum seekers

by Rabbi Mona Alfi, Rabbi Julie Bressler, Rabbi Chaim Koritzinsky, Rabbi Jill Perlman and Rabbi Jeremy Simons February 29, 2024March 1, 2024
Migrants who were sent to Sacramento by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis were hosted by members of Congregation B'nai Israel, for whom the migrants prepared a Shabbat dinner on June 16, 2023. (Photo/Eve Panush)
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DeSantis ‘dumped’ some migrants in Sacramento. A synagogue stepped up to host them.

by Sue Fishkoff July 6, 2023July 10, 2023
Vi poses in Battery Park in New York City, dressed as her great-great-grandmother Carolina in 1881. (Photo/Courtesy)
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Watch this Oakland YouTuber recreate her great-great-grandmother’s Shabbat dress

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss June 19, 2023June 21, 2023
Afghan family walks in airport
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Q&A: For the first time in decades, synagogues can sponsor refugees — what does that mean?

by Tani Levitt June 19, 2023June 19, 2023

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