USA

From Jared Kushner to Miriam Adelson, meet the Jewish figures in Trump’s inner circle

Donald Trump

Film

Wickedly Jewish! New musical is chock-a-block with talented Jewish stars

The Yellow Brick Road is paved with Jewish talent for one of this year’s biggest film releases

Neo-Nazi

Armed neo-Nazis carrying swastika flags march through Ohio state capital

White House condemns ‘sickening’ display of hatred

USA elections

‘Nearly three quarters of Orthodox voters supported Trump’

But new survey shows that the general Jewish population is still overwhelmingly Democratic

Donald Trump

Meet the Michigan Muslim Trump supporters suffering buyer’s remorse

Muslim Trump supporters from the ‘Abandon Harris’ campaign ‘gutted’ over his selection of secretary of state and UN ambassador

Israel

Israel destroyed secret Iranian nuclear research facility in recent strikes, US official says

Last month’s Israeli operation went further than previously revealed, according to Axios

Donald Trump

Trump’s health pick Robert F Kennedy once said Covid had been designed to spare Ashkenazi Jews

Kennedy is ardently pro-Israel but has a history of using the word ‘Holocaust’ to refer to vaccine policies

Israel

Who is Mike Huckabee, the pro-Israel ambassador who says ‘there’s no such thing as a Palestinian’?

The new US ambassador to Israel said annexing the West Bank is a possibility

Joe Biden

Biden administration says it will not issue an arms embargo against Israel

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reviewed the steps that Israel has taken to improve the ‘humanitarian situation inside Gaza.’

Trump’s planned UN envoy Elise Stefanik favours ‘maximum pressure on Iran’

Masked man attempts to snatch Chasidic boy from his father in Crown Heights

Inside the Park Slope Co-op: The food store ripping apart over Gaza and antisemitism

New York Jews deserted Democrats because of ‘anti-Israel fanaticism of the far left’, says Ritchie Torres

In Focus

Netanyahu hails Trump’s ‘historic return’ to the White House

Donald Trump's election victory "offers a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America," said the Israeli premier.

Who is Matt Meyer, the second Jewish governor in Delaware history?

Democrats have held the governor’s office in the Northwestern state for over 30 years

Jewish Democrat Josh Stein wins North Carolina governor race

Stein defeated ‘Black Nazi’ opponent Mark Robinson to become first Jewish governor of NC

Exit polls and analyses tell different stories on how American Jews voted

One poll says 79 per cent of Jews voted Harris; another says the figure was 67 per cent

Who are the Jewish politicians up for election in the US general election 2024?

The Harris-Trump vote is just one component of the major US election day

How does a Trump victory affect Israel’s war in Gaza?

The former president has said Benjamin Netanyahu should ‘get it over with’

Meet the real Harvey Epstein, the man with the worst name in politics

A two-minute SNL sketch about an NYC assemblyman’s unfortunate mash-up of names has given him a turn in the limelight

Spotlight

Dear students, this is how to resist the academic intifada

In letters adapted from a new book, US academic Gil Troy explains why celebrating Zionism is the best way to counter the anti-Israel movement on campuses

Majority of Israelis prefer Trump to Kamala Harris, according to new poll

Among Netanyahu voters, 93 per cent said they would like former President Donald Trump to win compared to just 1 per cent for Vice President Kamala Harris