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Jewish teens in US more likely to criticize Israel, sympathize with Hamas, than other countries

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate outside the CUNY Graduate Center Library on Fifth Avenue and 34th Street in Manhattan, New York, on May 14, 2024, after other protesters took over the building’s lobby.

CUNY plans free speech task force amid criticism on response to pro-Palestinian protests

By CAYLA BAMBERGER/ New York Daily News/TNS

New York Mayor Eric Adams with incoming NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch. November 20, 2024.

Jessica Tisch, Jewish public servant, appointed as commissioner of NYPD

By Luke Tress/JTA

SparkIL announces a Hannukah "Sparkathon."

SparkIL launches Hannukah competition to boost support for businesses affected by war

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Left to right: Dani Kogan, Deborah Greenblatt, Julian Voloj, Francil Tejada and Bradley T. Borden hold copies of "We Are Brooklyn: Stories of Hope,” a comic book celebrating the diversity of the borough and pf participants in the We Are All Brooklyn Fellowship Against Hate, Nov. 18, 2024.

To fight hate, these Brooklyn-based nonprofit professionals wrote a comic book together

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA

A Hasidic man walks by a police car in a Jewish Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn, April 24, 2017.

Man who attempted terror attack on Jewish New Yorkers in 2022 sentenced to 10 years in prison

By Luke Tress/JTA

Protesters gather at The University of Manchester campus, as students occupy parts of British university campuses to protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Manchester, Britain, May 7, 2024.

Edinburgh University accuses Palestine Society of threatening staff, to take disciplinary action

By Mathilda Heller

Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, March 16, 2024

Why the Weitzman, a museum of American Jewish history, tapped an Israeli as its next CEO

By ASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA

Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Zvika Klein in a conversation with Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee.

JCU 2024: A global call for unity

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 07: Protesters hold placards as they march from Regent Street St James to the Israeli Embassy during the National March for Palestine in central London, Saturday, September 7, 2024. The demonstration called for an end to the ongoing conflict and urged the UK gover

New survey in UK to assist addressing antisemitism in workplaces

By Mathilda Heller

Professor Christer Mattson and David Lega at the 2024 EJA conference in Krakow.

Expert warns of a 'perfect antisemitic storm' masked as anti-Zionism in 2024

By Mathilda Heller

Police officers stand amidst smoke billowing out from tear gas shells fired to disperse the crowd gathered to demand the removal of the army barricades in Bishnupur district, in the northeastern state of Manipur, India, September 6, 2023

Mass violence returns to Indian state home to the Bnei Menashe

By Yuval Barnea , REUTERS

Demonstrators take part in an antisemitism protest outside the Labour Party headquarters in central London, Britain April 8, 2018.

European leaders must convene to implement protections against antisemitism, AJC says

By HANNAH SARISOHN

Menachem Margolin EJA calls on Europe to enact 6 month emergency period due to antisemitism.

EJA calls on Europe to enact six month emergency period due to antisemitism

By Mathilda Heller

Swastika on a wall (illustrative)

Swastika sent to Jewish students, labelled non-hate crime by UK police

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A Club MMingle event.

Club MMingle: Jewish matchmaking across borders

Micah Halpern

I am a proud Jew, I will not shy away

By MICAH HALPERN

JEWISH GROUPS gather in Times Square to mark the one-year anniversary of the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2024. With candles, prayers, and music, commemorations for the October 7 attack began in Israel’s Tel Aviv on October 6 at a ceremony to mark the first anniversary of the Hamas onslaught.

Editor's Notes: US Jews reach consensus and are driven by shared purpose