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Pinsker Fellowship Foreign Policy trip to DC March 2026
April 7, 2026, 5:23 pm
Pinsker Centre fellowship meets Ted Cruz and administration officials in Washington
Emerging student leaders from UK campuses given access to senior-level briefings with members of Congress, White House officials, and leading think-tanks
By Michelle Rosenberg
Rabbi Doug Alpert speaks at the funeral of Sarah Milgrim at Congregation Beth Torah in Overland Park, Kansas, on May 27, 2025. (Screenshot)
May 28, 2025, 1:19 pm
‘Sarah, we will continue your mission’: DC Jewish museum shooting victim mourned at Kansas City funeral
Sarah Milgrim’s funeral took place in the same synagogue where she marked her bat mitzvah
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
A TikTok post celebrating Elias Rodriguez. (Screenshot)
May 23, 2025, 12:19 pm
‘More Elias’: These people are celebrating the Washington D.C. murders
Unhinged pro-Palestinian social media accounts are praising the attack and paying homage to Elias Rodriguez, the man charged with the murders
By Ben Sales (JTA) and Michelle Rosenberg
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to the media after arriving at 10 Downing Street in 2017
May 23, 2025, 10:23 am
Netanyahu: Starmer ‘on the wrong side of justice, humanity and history’
Netanyahu slammed Western leaders for emboldening Hamas with sanctions threats
By Daniel Sugarman and Jewish News Reporter
U.S. Capitol building (Martin Falbisoner via Wikimedia Commons)
May 23, 2025, 10:13 am
After museum shooting, Jewish groups call for $1bn in federal funding to secure religious institutions
Statement was signed by groups representing the Orthodox, Conservative and Reform movements as well as other major organisations.
By Ben Sales (JTA)
May 23, 2025, 9:26 am
OPINION: When the West enables hate, innocents pay in blood
The responsibility for the DC shootings falls directly onto those authorities who have failed to rein in antisemitism
By Jonathan Baz
Victims Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgram. Right: Suspect Elias Rodriguez
May 22, 2025, 11:30 am
Chief Rabbi leads outpouring of grief and anger after Israeli couple murdered in Washington DC
Israeli embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim shot dead outside a Jewish museum
By Michelle Rosenberg
Ian Epstein was one of the four flight attendants killed in the collision with an army helicopter
February 2, 2025, 8:52 pm
Flight attendant killed in Washington DC plane crash was former BBYO member
A video of Ian Epstein, who was known for has sense of humour, has gone viral on TikTok and passengers say he provided comfort and entertainment
By Ben Sales (JTA)
December 21, 2021, 4:52 pm
Schoolchildren told to reenact scenes from the Holocaust, with Jewish student playing Hitler
One student was told to act as if he were dying in a gas chamber, with a staff member saying Germans killed Jews 'because the Jews ruined Christmas'
By JTA
February 13, 2019, 6:19 pm
On The Basis Of Sex star Felicity Jones: ‘Ruth Bader Ginsburg has changed me’
Hollywood star tells Jewish News about playing the iconic Jewish US Supreme Court justice in new film, alongside Armie Hammer and Justin Theroux
By Francine Wolfisz
Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump
June 7, 2018, 10:12 am
Bibi, Trump and ‘the deal that can’t be done’
In this extract from Bibi: The Turbulent Life & Times of Benjamin Netanyahu, author Anshel Pfeffer looks at the relationship between Israel's premier and the US president
Front View of the chosen design for the Holocaust memorial
October 24, 2017, 1:00 pm
Revealed: Winning design for Westminster Holocaust memorial
British architect Sir David Adjaye and Israeli designer Ron Arad are unanimously selected to take on an ambitious project to build by parliament
By Jenni Frazer
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (right) with negotiator Saeb Erekat (left)
September 25, 2017, 10:27 am
Palestinian chief negotiator in U.S. for a lung transplant
PLO Chief Executive Saeb Erekat is in Washington DC awaiting treatment for pulmonary fibrosis
By JTA
Spiritual leader Alex Armah, centre, with community members at shacharit (morning) service at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, House of Israel Jewish Community in New Adiembra, Ghana. Photographed in February 2014
September 19, 2016, 5:26 pm
Meet the world’s most isolated Jewish communities
Stephen Oryszczuk meets Jono David, who spent four years visiting the world’s most isolated Jewish communities
By Stephen Oryszczuk
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