A new Hebrew book published on Sunday by Israeli journalist Barak Ravid gives a behind-the-scenes look at what is now being revealed as a rocky U.S.-Israel relationship during the Trump administration, but one that led to normalization deals between Israel and the Arab world. “F**k him,” former President Donald Trump said about former Israeli Prime…
This is an adaptation of Looking Forward, a weekly email from our editor-in-chief sent on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. Click here for your free weekly printable magazine of top stories. Rabbi Allen Secher recalls it starting, like so many a Jewish gathering, with a…
A pair of grainy photos show a man delivering what appear to be a Nazi salute, decked out in military gear in one image and dressed as the Joker — replete with a full face of unsettling makeup — in the other. Oren Segal, who tracks extremism for the Anti-Defamation League, posted the photos on…
A German official has apologized to the daughter of a Holocaust survivor for demanding she return 72.55 euros that the government had mistakenly paid out to her deceased mother after she died in January. And Germany will return the money — about $80 — to the daughter, who had written a check for the amount…
A speech by a leader in the Council on American-Islamic Affairs — the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights group — drew a concerned response from some pro-Israel Jewish groups after she warned that Muslims who support Palestinian rights should not work with Jewish organizations that support Israel. Zahra Billoo, who heads CAIR’s San Francisco office,…
A government investigation that began after a pair of officers were charged with spray-painting a swastika inside a resident’s car has revealed that racist and antisemitic speech was rampant in the Torrance (Calif.) Police Department, according to a Los Angeles Times story published Wednesday. The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office, which reviewed thousands of text…
The Los Angeles City Council approved a new district map on Tuesday, finalizing the contours of the city’s 15 council districts for the next decade. The unanimous vote belied a contentious redistricting process that drew thousands of comments. Public meetings often lasted longer than six hours. At one point early in the process, a Los…
Israel sits in the center of the roiling debate over what is and isn’t antisemitic. Top Jewish establishment leaders have twisted themselves into knots trying to explain precisely when and how criticism of Israel crosses the line into antisemitism. And even when they draw what seems to be a red line, there are caveats. Meanwhile,…
At a fundraising dinner Monday, Michael Bloomberg criticized Jewish Americans for too often failing to call out antisemitism when it comes from political allies. “Partisanship can be blinding,” the former New York City mayor said in a speech at the UJA-Federation of New York’s annual Wall Street Dinner in Manhattan. “It blinds us to shameful…
Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas, who died on Sunday at 98, had a complex record on Israel but a much more clear-cut one on Soviet Jews, whose cause he championed as a senator and Senate leader. “The freedom of enslaved people is America’s business, and freedom is a task we must apply,” Dole, a Republican…
Former President Donald Trump worked on expanding the Abraham Accords from his hospital bed where he was being treated for a life-threatening case of COVID-19, hoping the positive news coming out of the Middle East would distract the country’s attention away from his illness, his former chief of staff reveals in a new memoir. “Still…
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