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'Antisemitism is anti-American': Senate holds hearing for antisemitism envoy

Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun’s nomination as US Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism sparks debate over his bipartisan approach.

 Yehuda Kaploun and Donald Trump.
An undated handout photo released by the Metropolitan Police shows Howard Phillips, who was jailed on Friday for assisting a foreign intelligence service.

UK Jewish man jailed for offering then-defense minister's information to Russian 'spies'

 Val Kilmer in "Top Secret!"

‘That’s Simchas Torah’: The Jewish Val Kilmer moment you might have missed

 A student walks on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut November 12, 2015.

AI website 'Jewish Onliner' linked to team behind Yale Scholar's suspension


NGOs sue local religious councils for over-charging for mikve usage

ITIM says that its suit is designed to force local religious councils to act in accordance with the law when providing vital services to the public.

A mikve, the Jewish ritual bath [Illustrative]

American Jews need to have more babies, says outgoing JFNA chair

Michael Siegal speaks to ‘Post’ ahead of General Assembly in Washington.

MICHAEL SIEGAL.

Discovering their Jewish souls

Genie Milgrom was raised Catholic in Cuba, but found a way back to her roots.

AN ANCIENT Hebrew text is displayed at a museum. Was the patriarch Abraham one of the first Jewish lawyers, wonders the author.

Jerusalem

The Jerusalem Post

Spain begins review of Sephardic Jewish citizenship applications

Applicants need not travel to Spain, but must hire a Spanish notary and pass tests on the Spanish language and history.

The cover of a passport from Spain

US Jewish institutions on alert following calls for attacks from bin Laden’s son

Hamza bin Laden, who has ambitions to lead alQaida, the terrorist organization founded by his father, posted an audio message calling “for the targeting of Jewish American interests globally.”

Osama bin-Laden

Israel selectively prosecutes... Jews?

Recent events here have demonstrated that the Israeli government does not always treat Jews and Palestinians as equals under the law.

A spate of anti-Semitic attacks triggered by the Gaza conflict has rattled French Jews

The Jewish community is at its strongest when we work together

The only time the Jewish world condenses more than when it’s under attack is when we are the ones perpetrating the attacks.

American Jews who are members of the Union for Reform Judaism, formerly the Union Of American Hebrew Congregations at the Western Wall in Jerusalem‏.

US Jewish groups call on Israel to rein in its Jewish extremists

"Expressions of outrage are no longer enough," say Jewish groups in wake of killing of Palestinian toddler and attack on Jerusalem gay pride parade.

Yishai Schlissel arrested after stabbing six people at the Jerusalem gay pride parade

The long path from India to Israel

Freund’s goal is to find all those who descended from generations that suffered under the Inquisition and forced conversions, to bring them back into the fold and welcome them to Israel.

BNEI MENASHE immigrants arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport.