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A diverse community of the adherents to the Jewish faith in the United States, currently numbering some four million.
 BERNARD DOV Troy never stopped celebrating life and the great achievements of Israel and American Jewry

Avatar of Zionism and Americanism: Gil Troy on his father - opinion

 Biden and Trump

Trump accuses Biden of running 'Gestapo administration'

By REUTERS
 U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) attends a press conference alongside fellow Republicans following the passage of the Secure the Border Act, HR-2, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 11, 2023.

MTG opposes antisemitism bill due to rejecting ‘Gospel,’ that ‘the Jews’ handed Jesus to crucifiers

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA
 A sign is seen at Columbia University near a protest encampment on the main campus in support of Palestinians, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, U.S., April 27, 2024.

I’m not letting pro-Palestinian protesters decide my choice of college

By Anya Geist/JTA
 Max Fried delivers a pitch in a spring training game against the Tampa Bay Rays, March 21, 2021.

The Jewish sport report: For Max Fried and Dean Kremer’s Passover dominance, dayenu

By Jacob Gurvis/JTA
 Pro-Israel counter-protesters stand around a demonstration by Harvard Law students participating in the National Day of Action organized by Law Students for a Free Palestine, at Harvard University on November 16, 2023.

'Your Jewish students cannot be sacrificed': Jewish leaders, students address universities

 Representatives' desk with microphone and voting buttons (yea/nay)

In a first, Massachusetts lawmakers delay budget fight to accommodate Passover observance

By PENNY SCHWARTZ/ JTA
 The first American depiction of the Four Sons. (‘Haggadah for Passover,’ Hayyim Liberman, Chicago, 1879)

The Kaplan Collection brings Passover to life

By DAVID GEFFEN
 A coalition of University of Michigan students camp at an encampment in the Diag to pressure the university to divest its endowment from companies that support Israel or could profit from the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas on the University of Michigan college campus in Ann Arbor.

American universities: Columbia students address press, congressmen propose antisemitism monitors

 Rochester City Hall, 2013.

The 'sandwich generation' of Israel politics - opinion

By MITCH GRUBER/JTA
 Protests at Columbia University, April 24, 2024.

I went to a Seder at Columbia while protests raged outside - opinion

By STEVEN ZEITCHIK
US President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the war

Majority of Americans lack trust in Netanyahu's ability to lead on world affairs

 People climb the Alma Mater statue to see the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Mike Johnson (R-LA) during a press conference at Columbia University in response to demonstrators protesting in support of Palestinians, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist g

It might be time to start our own Jewish Ivy League - editor's notes

 US PRESIDENT Joe Biden participates in a roundtable with Jewish community leaders in Washington, on October 11, 2023.

Pro-Israel, anti-Netanyahu: How American Jews are reshaping Zionism

 A counter protestor talks into a microphone as people gather outside of Columbia University to demand a ceasefire and the end of Israeli attacks on Gaza, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, during a protest in New York, US, April 20, 2024.

'Campuses in revolt': Columbia-like encampments emerge at US universities

 Likud member MK Illouz speaks to university students, April 21, 2024.

MK Illouz US trip seeks Diaspora unity, House hearing on PA terror ties

 PRO-PALESTINIAN demonstrators take part in ‘Shut it down for Palestine’ protests in New York City in December. We must stop pretending that when people spew anti-Zionist hatred, this is anything other than a very thinly veiled attack on Jews, the writer asserts.

Antisemitism across America, from Alabama to Wisconsin

 The cage bars of a prison cell (Illustrative).

Fred Neulander, rabbi serving life sentence, dies in prison at 82

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA