American Jewry

At this Dallas synagogue, Purim comes with fog machines, zip lines and Broadway flair

Rabbi Adam Roffman has transformed the traditional Purim spiel at Dallas’s Shearith Israel into a high-octane theatrical event, blending his Broadway background with spiritual community building.

Clergy of Congregation Shearith Israel in Texas perform the annual Purim spiel on March 1, 2026.
People protest against the nuclear deal reached with Iran before U.S. Vice President Joe Biden meets with Jewish community leaders at the David Posnack Jewish Community Center to discuss the deal on Sept. 3, 2015 in Davie, Florida.

Why trusting physics, not politics, once kept Iran in check - opinion

Rev. Jesse Jackson attends Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., August 20, 2024.

Jesse Jackson helped legitimize the antisemitism poisoning America today - opinion

 A person holds a placard during a demonstration against antisemitism, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Brussels, Belgium December 10, 2023.

Is antisemitism inevitable? A disturbing old-new view of Jew-hatred - opinion


Congress passes act replacing gravestone markers of Jewish service members with Star of David

The Fallen Service Members Religious Heritage Restoration Act would create a program to identify Jewish service members buried in foreign American military cemeteries under crosses.

 AFTER 79 YEARS, 1st Lt. Nathan Baskind – a Jewish American soldier missing since D-Day – was identified in a German war grave and reburied, with full military honors and in accordance with the Halacha, at Normandy in 2024.

Comic Gianmarco Soresi mines his mixed Jewish background for laughs

The 37-year-old Gianmarco Soresi has seen his online popularity explode in recent years, as he joins a generation of comics finding audiences outside the comedy clubs.

Gianmarco Soresi

US House panel holds hearings to 'unmask antisemitism' in unions and K-12

Kiley said that while the committee had investigated antisemitism at universities across the country, there was also a growing problem of antisemitism from Kindergarten to High School education.

Kevin Kiley, California state assemblyman, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas, US, August 6, 2022

Vote naively, repent bitterly: Will Mamdani turn against Jews after getting their votes? - opinion

Liberal Jews, as much as they may see Mamdani as a young, savvy newcomer with fresh ideas, albeit bad ones, should be prepared for the backstabbing that is yet to come.

NEW YORK CITY mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks with people after an event this past week. Mamdani will have a limitless opportunity to show his loyalties to a fast-growing anti-Israel segment, the writer warns.

Stop prioritizing diaspora influencers over Nova survivors and hostage families - opinion

Lived experience under Hamas rockets should outweigh Instagram followers when choosing who represents Israel's story.

Israelis march in Tel Aviv at a rally organized by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum on September 13, 2025.

'A shining light for the American Jewish community': US Jewish leaders, groups grieve Charlie Kirk

US Jewish groups and leaders mourned Charlie Kirk’s death, condemning his assassination as political violence and offering condolences to his family.

 (Illustrative) TURNING POINT USA executive director Charlie Kirk speaks at US President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day ceremony at the Capital One Arena in Washington on January 20, 2025.

Breakaway Jewish group joins 'student intifada' after split from Jewish Voice for Peace

The group framed itself as part of what it termed a global “student intifada” and said it was aligning with the “Popular University,” a loose network of pro-Palestinian activists.

 JUST AFTER the Hamas attack on October 7, even before the IDF began its ground operation in Gaza, Jewish Voice for Peace was already calling to ‘Stop the genocide of Palestinians.’

Robert Jay Lifton, pioneering scholar of Nazi doctors and Jewish memory, dies at 99

Robert Jay Lifton, whose work on genocide psychology reshaped Holocaust studies and Jewish thought for decades, died at his home in Massachusetts at 99.

Robert Jay Lifton in a 2009 documentary based on his book, "The Nazi Doctors."

The ‘Jewish tax’ is real: Why US Jews need to pay for safety - opinion

For millions of Jews across America, basic acts of life come with a price tag.

POLICE PATROL a Jewish festival in Boulder, Colorado, in June, a week after an attack in which an 82-year-old woman was killed. ‘Half of American Jews have heard people justify violent actions against our community,’ says the writer.

'Never again can't only mean never again for Jews': Holocaust Museum LA retracts social media post

The museum said the post was "easily open to misinterpretation by some as a political statement reflecting the ongoing situation in the Middle East. That was not our intent.”

A protester (R) holds a placard reading "Never again is now, Free Palestine" during a demonstration in support of Palestinians on Dam Square, in Amsterdam, on November 2, 2024.