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Philissa Cramer (JTA)
Margot Friedländer. Photo: MARK PECKMEZIAN.
May 12, 2025, 1:43 pm
Margot Friedlander, German Holocaust survivor who landed a Vogue cover, dies at 103
Friedlander’s last public appearance came less than two days before her death
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
Edan Alexander’s mother holds a poster of her son, the last known American-Israeli hostage believed to be alive in Gaza. Photo taken from X
May 12, 2025, 12:36 pm
Hamas and Trump say hostage Edan Alexander to be freed after US negotiates release
The 21-year-old is the only remaining U.S. citizen among the living hostages held in Gaza
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
Yehuda Kaploun. Photo taken from X
April 11, 2025, 10:58 am
Trump picks friend and Miami businessman as antisemitism envoy
The announcement on Truth Social Thursday night elicited a wave of antisemitic comments
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
Former hostage, Liri Albag. Photo taken from X
April 10, 2025, 10:45 am
Freed hostage Liri Albag abused over Netanyahu criticism: ‘I fear what we’ve become’
Some Netanyahu supporters told Albag to “go back to Gaza,” where she was held hostage for 477 days
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
Sen. Cory Booker wears a hostage pin during a marathon speech on the Senate floor, April 1, 2025. (Screenshot)
April 2, 2025, 9:33 am
19 hours into anti-Trump Senate speech, senator proclaims, ‘Hineni’ — I am here
Later, Cory Booker donned a hostage pin and mentioned Edan Alexander, the Israeli-American soldier from New Jersey who is a captive in Gaza
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
Screenshot: Twitter/X
March 24, 2025, 12:03 pm
Columbia University bans face masks at protests
Changes are a bid to regain federal funding cut to penalise the school for its Palestinian protests
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
3A4A4AC Alma Varsano, from left, Jaron Varsano, Ori Varsano, Gal Gadot, Maya Varsano, and Daniella Varsano pose with Gadot's new star during a ceremony on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
March 19, 2025, 11:13 am
Gal Gadot walks the walk into Hollywood history
“I’m just a girl from a town in Israel,” the 39-year-old actress said
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia who was arrested by ICE in March 2025, speaking to media. (Screenshot)
March 18, 2025, 2:31 pm
US Justice Department announces task force dedicated to prosecuting 7 October terrorists
Group will also “investigate acts of terrorism and civil rights violations by entities providing support and financing to Hamas, related Iran proxies
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
US Education Secretary Linda McMahon Screenshot: Fox News
March 13, 2025, 11:22 am
Trump guts Department of Education, slashing office handling antisemitism complaints
Dismantling the department has long been a Republican ambition
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
Yuval Raphael, at center in the video for "New Day Will Rise," is a Nova survivor representing Israel in the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest. (Screenshot)
March 10, 2025, 5:25 pm
WATCH: Israel unveils Eurovision entry featuring Nova festival survivor
The song is mostly in English, with a verse in French and a line in Hebrew
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
Jewish newspapers in stacks. (Courtsey: National Library of Australia)
March 4, 2025, 12:40 pm
Jewish editor says he was fired after running cartoon about Gaza
The cartoon showed an Israeli hostage returning home — over a pile of Palestinian bodies
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
Mikey Madison
March 4, 2025, 8:29 am
Jewish actors scoop top awards at Oscars
Mikey Madison wins best actress and Adrien Brody wins award for playing a Holocaust survivor for the second time
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
At least three purveyors of Kanye West-inspired Jewishwear have emerged in the days following the rapper's swastika shirt brouhaha. (Collage by JTA)
February 14, 2025, 11:24 am
Kanye’s swastika shirt inspires a flurry of defiant Jewish spinoffs
Now for sale: mugs with the logo from the anti-Kanye celebrity deepfake
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
An AI-generated version of Adam Sandler appears in a celebrity-studded AI video rejecting Kanye West's antisemitism. (Screenshot)
February 12, 2025, 2:43 pm
In AI video, Jewish celebrities from Scarlett Johansson to Adam Sandler give Kanye the middle finger
The video, made by an Israeli entrepreneur, shows the celebrities wearing a shirt that echoes the swastika one Kanye West sold this week
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
Jewish women, including at the Israeli airline El Al, wore braids to celebrate Agam Berger, released from Hamas captivity on Jan. 30, 2025. (Berger with her parents: handout; El Al staff via El Al)
January 31, 2025, 10:38 am
Jewish women braid challah and hair to mark Agam Berger’s return
The “Braids for Agam” movement responds to reports that Berger, 20, has braided other hostages’ hair in captivity
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
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