Asaf Elia-Shalev

A person wears a pride-themed yarmulke in the West Village in New York City, on June 26, 2020. (Noam Galai/Getty Images/Courtesy)

A Wider Bridge, a pro-Israel advocate in LGBTQ spaces, is shutting down

December 22, 2025 at 1:12 p.m.

Founded in 2010 by activist Arthur Slepian, A Wider Bridge set out to connect LGBTQ communities in North America with their counterparts in Israel, promoting Israel’s record on LGBTQ rights...

A chuppah for a Jewish wedding. (Getty images/Courtesy)

Judaism’s Conservative movement apologizes for decades of discouraging intermarriage, signals new approach

December 22, 2025 at 12:54 p.m.

The shift marks a significant change in tone for a movement that long treated intermarriage as a threat to Jewish continuity, even as its longstanding ban on clergy officiating at...

Neo-Nazi groups Blood Tribe and Goyim Defense League hold a rally on September 2, 2023 in Orlando, Florida. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/Courtesy)

Nashville Jewish community center sues Goyim Defense League over alleged campaign of intimidation

December 16, 2025 at 1:44 p.m.

A Jewish community center in Nashville has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the neo-Nazi group Goyim Defense League and several of its leaders and affiliates, accusing them of...

Vice President JD Vance speaks during a visit to ALTA Refrigeration Inc., Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Peachtree City, Ga. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson/Courtesy)

JD Vance rejects claim that antisemitism is growing inside the GOP, breaking his silence on the topic

December 8, 2025 at 11:13 a.m.

Vance said antisemitism is wrong, stating that “judging anybody based on their skin color or immutable characteristics, I think, is fundamentally anti-American and anti-Christian.”

The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., is pictured on July 30, 2024. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/Courtesy)

Jewish group revives push for public funding for religious schools that stalled at Supreme Court

November 24, 2025 at 11:53 a.m.

The National Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation has notified an Oklahoma state board that it intends to apply for a statewide virtual high school integrating Oklahoma academic standards with...

Hannah and Ally Karpel-Pomerantz met as rabbinical school classmates at Hebrew Union College. They are set to be ordained at the end of the school year. (JTA/Courtesy)

Surging LGBTQ enrollment in Jewish seminaries signals ‘astounding’ shift in US rabbinate

November 19, 2025 at 12:50 p.m.

A new national study says that 51% of the rabbinical students surveyed identified as LGBTQ+.

Inside a synagogue sanctuary, as new research sheds light on how fewer rabbis are choosing pulpit life. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images/Courtesy)

What the first major study of the US rabbinate reveals

November 13, 2025 at 12:56 p.m.

This mismatch between what rabbis want to do and the kinds of jobs available is among the many findings in the first-ever empirical study of the American rabbinate across denominations,...

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison speaks during a news conference with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Jan. 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/Courtesy)

Ellison’s Oracle poised to run TikTok, raising hopes for tougher rules against antisemitism

November 3, 2025 at 12:49 p.m.

American Jewish leaders have blamed Tiktok for allowing antisemitism to spread among young people.

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks onstage at ADL's Never Is Now conference on March 3, 2025 in New York City. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images/Courtesy)

ADL enlists major law firms to launch pro bono network for antisemitism cases

October 29, 2025 at 11:27 a.m.

The initiative comes as the ADL has increasingly turned to litigation as a tactic — the group says it has filed more lawsuits and legal complaints in the last years...

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